Irene Rice Pereira's Early Work: Embarking on an Eastward Journey by Irene Rice Pereira - 1994

Berlin, Propyläen-Verlag, n.d. (1923?). 57pp. text + 55 full-page facsimiles (several in colour) and 18 facs. of initials in the text. Sm. folio. Halfcloth (rebacked).

Philadelphia: Penn Libraries/Kislak Center, 2020. Paperback with French flaps. 8.5 x 11 inches. Paperback with French flaps. 352 pages. This exhibition catalogue examines the making of the hand-written and hand-illuminated book during a time of great political, religious, and technological transformation in Europe. Through approximately forty loans from ten regional institutions, as well another forty items from Penn's own collections, the exhibition examines the full intellectual and artistic depth of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries through a varied selection of extraordinary manuscripts, cuttings, and incunables, many of which have never before been exhibited. The catalogue opens with a Foreword by Constantina Constantinou and Will Noel and an Introduction, "To Hold the Renaissance in Our Hands," by curator Nicholas Herman. An essay, "Material Present Collecting Late Medieval and Early Modern Objects in (and around) Philadelphia," provides a detailed look at the history of the collections… Read More

Hardcover. Good. Hardcover Good hardcover with nicely decorated, gilded front binding and spine Some damage to top and bottom of spine and some scuffs at the edges of the binding Binding still tight, although front hinge slightly cracked, Pages clean and complete, no marks or notes, in all a clean, bright copy Very scarce in this edition Ships from Hawaii.

Harrisburg, PA: The Harness Horse, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 4to, rough weave grey flecked cloth stamped in blue titles and surround of front cover pictorial pastedown, 42 pages, illustrated. A fine, apparently unused copy. RACING BREEDING EQUESTRIAN.

Chicago: Advent:Publishers, Inc., 1969. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (28052). Octavo, cloth. Warner was an influential member of American sf fandom and historian of fanish activities during the 1940s and 1950s. This book supplements Moskowitz's THE IMMORTAL STORM for the 1940s. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-142.

Berlin, Propyläen-Verlag, n.d. (1923?). 57pp. text + 55 full-page facsimiles (several in colour) and 18 facs. of initials in the text. Sm. folio. Halfcloth (rebacked).

Philadelphia: Penn Libraries/Kislak Center, 2020. Paperback with French flaps. 8.5 x 11 inches. Paperback with French flaps. 352 pages. This exhibition catalogue examines the making of the hand-written and hand-illuminated book during a time of great political, religious, and technological transformation in Europe. Through approximately forty loans from ten regional institutions, as well another forty items from Penn's own collections, the exhibition examines the full intellectual and artistic depth of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries through a varied selection of extraordinary manuscripts, cuttings, and incunables, many of which have never before been exhibited. The catalogue opens with a Foreword by Constantina Constantinou and Will Noel and an Introduction, "To Hold the Renaissance in Our Hands," by curator Nicholas Herman. An essay, "Material Present Collecting Late Medieval and Early Modern Objects in (and around) Philadelphia," provides a detailed look at the history of the collections… Read More

Hardcover. Good. Hardcover Good hardcover with nicely decorated, gilded front binding and spine Some damage to top and bottom of spine and some scuffs at the edges of the binding Binding still tight, although front hinge slightly cracked, Pages clean and complete, no marks or notes, in all a clean, bright copy Very scarce in this edition Ships from Hawaii.

Harrisburg, PA: The Harness Horse, 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 4to, rough weave grey flecked cloth stamped in blue titles and surround of front cover pictorial pastedown, 42 pages, illustrated. A fine, apparently unused copy. RACING BREEDING EQUESTRIAN.

Chicago: Advent:Publishers, Inc., 1969. First edition. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. (28052). Octavo, cloth. Warner was an influential member of American sf fandom and historian of fanish activities during the 1940s and 1950s. This book supplements Moskowitz's THE IMMORTAL STORM for the 1940s. Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-142.