SIGNED - ELIZABETH by Brian Swann, Illustrated by Michael McCurdy, #5 of 500, LN

by Brian Swann

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ELIZABETH by Brian Swann. Woodcut title illustration by Michael McCurdy. Penmaen Press, Lincoln, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 1981. 6.25x9.25x1.00. 47pp. First Edition/Limited Edition. LIKE NEW COLLECTIBLE - Light tanning to dust jacket, price unclipped, clean, unmarked textured cream paper with two tiny spots on spine by publisher's name. Hardcover is square, clean, tightly bound, bright colors of green geometric and green linen quarter-bound. Interior pages and endpapers all pristine, unmarked. One of 150 copies (of only 1000 printed) specially bound, numbered and SIGNED by the author and illustrator. Like New Collectible. Issued as no. 5 in the publisher's Fiction Series. Author, Brian Swann, earned a BA and an MA from Queens’ College, Cambridge, and a PhD from Princeton University. Noted poet, novelist, essayist and translator, he teaches at Cooper Union College in New York City. Illustrator, the late Michael McCurdy was an American illustrator, author, and publisher. He illustrated over 200 books in his career, including ten that he authored. Most were illustrated with his trademark black and white wood engravings. He was the founder of Penmaen Press which ceased publishing in 1985. Scarce, limited edition, numbered, author/illustrator-SIGNED copy, long out-of-print.

• Publisher: Penmaen Press
• Year: 1981
• ISBN: 9780915778348

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