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29 CAPOTE, Truman. In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, 1965 SIGNED AND SPECIALLY BOUND Signed limited edition, number 139 of 500 copies signed by the author and specially bound, published the same year as the trade edition. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt on red ground, yellow endpapers, top edge red, fore edge untrimmed. Housed in a custom red card slipcase. Frontispiece and title page printed in orange and black. A fine copy, clean and sharp. £2,000 [150194] 30 CARROLL, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. With the original illustrations by John Tenniel. London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to The Medici Society; Riccardi Press Books, 1914 ONE OF TEN PRINTED ON VELLUM Riccardi Press edition, number 4 of 10 copies printed on vellum. A further 1,000 copies were printed on paper. The Riccardi Press was founded by Herbert P. Horne, who designed the typeface. It began to be used as the imprint for Medici Society publications in 1909.
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Will Ransom notes, in Private Presses and Their Books , that the vellum copies issued by the Riccardi Press were “bound in limp Kelmscott vellum”. The dust jacket on this copy is a remarkable survival. As a plain dust jacket using low-grade brown paper with roughly cut flaps, it may be a simple protective covering supplied by the binder rather than a publisher’s jacket, or perhaps it is an addition by an early owner. The jacket spine has lettering added by hand. Quarto. Original limp vellum, lettering to spine and front cover in gilt, green silk ties. With plain dust jacket. Housed in a custom brown cloth slipcase. Illustrations by John Tenniel. Some very light browning; a fine copy which is bright and clean. Dust jacket worn with loss and tears. ¶ Ransom, Riccardi Press, 12. £15,000 [152895]
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