Illustrated by Gaylord Schanilec
Five short stories...The state of grace; The dwarf; Rue de l'Évangile; Legend of Poldevia; The seven-league boots. Wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1994. Edition limited to 150 copies (this, no. 39), small 4to, pp. 100; 10 two-color wood engravings by Schanilec, with an extra suite of engravings, each mounted in a printed dye-cut wrapper, and together with "A Companion to Five Short Stories by Marcel Aymé: Creating the Illustrations," a bifolium with an essay by Henry Morris and a "Final Note" incorporating a letter to Henry Morris by Schanilec; housed in red cloth clam-shell box, maroon gilt-lettered spine label. Unlike others in the edition, this copy is signed by Schanilec on the colophon. Quarter to Midnight A.126. Forty-Four A.56. Item #50423
Price: $500.00
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