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A Letter From Carl Dair About The Paper Mills Of Amalfi, Italy - Introduction & Afterword by Robert R. Reid

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Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine+
Edition: Limited Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; Signed by Editor
Publisher: Heavenly Monkey, 2003, Vancouver

[Book #13418]

A Very Fine edition of 75 numbered copies. Introduction & afterword by Reid hand-set in 14-point Garamond, printed on damp Lana Antique. Four-page letter in Dair's hand reproduced from polymer plates, printed damp on handmade Amatruda paper —one of the mills Dair mentions in the letter. Sewn in a wrap of blue cotton paper made specially for this project by Reg Lissel. One of the few copies signed (uncalled for) by Robert Reid on the limitation page;

Robert Reid, who also wrote the introduction to this book, corresponded with Dair during the 1950s and early '60s; most of these letters were donated to McGill University, but this letter was recently discovered in Reid's files
A Letter From Carl Dair About The Paper Mills Of Amalfi, Italy - Introduction & Afterword by Robert R. Reid
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