WILDE, Oscar; BIRK, Sandow (illus.).

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The Fairy Tales. Signed limited edition, number 166 of 276, numbered and signed by the illustrator. In his works for the book, Birk gave scenes from Wilde's tales a contemporary Irish setting to "make [Wilde's] moral visions relevant to our own troubled times... to create not just an illustrated book, but something more thought provoking and enduring" (p. xii).Since 1974, Andrew Hoyem's Arion Press has been producing fine limited editions in the heart of San Francisco, using letterpress equipment dating from the 1910s. Overseeing every aspect of book production in-house, they are the only unified hot-metal type foundry, letterpress workshop, and book bindery in the United States. Hoyem won the San Francisco Living Treasure Award in 2010 for his decades of contribution to both book arts and the city.

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