Sold for $688

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Lot Description

MOSER, Barry. An Alphabet. West Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1986.

Oblong sheets (191 x 242 mm). UNBOUND AND UNFOLDED SHEETS. With 26 wood engravings by Moser; and 26 letters designed by Yvette Rutledge printed in colors by Moser.

LIMITED EDITION, one of 150 copies, this copy out-of-series.

“One of the most rewarding relationships I have had with other craftsmen in my seventeen years of bookwork has been with Yvette Rutledge. she has an uncanny sense of what I want and an extraordinary talent for making beautiful letters.”—Pennyroyal Checklist 47.

[With:] An incomplete group of unbound folded quires and plates for An Alphabet, including some duplicates.

Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser

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