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By Carol Cunningham Mill Valley, CA; Sunflower Press, 1980. Hardcover. As new from the printer. First edition. Unpaginated (28 pp: vi, 22); 2 1/2 (height) x 2 3/4 (depth) inches. A handmade, miniature book. Printed letterpress in orange and black inks on French Arches paper using hand-set 8 point Optima type. One illustration on frontispiece, letterpressed then hand-colored. Hand-bound with letterpress characters on brown-paper endpapers. Limited to 125 copies, numbered and signed by Carol Cunningham. Of these 50 were in deluxe bindings of silk brocade with the five-toed Imperial dragon on the front. Forty-five were bound were in oriental-motif brocade over boards. Thirty of the printed books were never bound. A miniature treatise on one of history’s great explorers who “did not tell half what I saw, for I knew it would not be believed”. The book includes some background on the younger Marco’s life in historical context, as well as a quote from the first 11 lines of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s famous Kubla Khan poem. Standard: $140   |
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| A Panorama of San Francisco: 2 3/4 sq |
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| Two Poems from Les Fleurs du Mal: 2 1/2 x 2 1/8 |
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| Muses: 2 7/8sq |
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| The Sun: an Alphabet: 3 x 3 |
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| Jazz: 2 7/8 sq |
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| Daring Voyages: 2 3/4 sq |
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| A Desert Tale: 2 3/4 x 2 7/8 |
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| Elephant: 2 3/8 x 3 1/4 |
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| Dance Circle: 2 3/8 x 2 1/4 |
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| Haniwa: 2 7/8 x 3 |
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| Mr Finney and the Turnip: 2 1/2 x 2 1/4 |
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| Silverpearl Plums: 2 1/4 x 2 1/8 |
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| Mark Twain: Raft Passage: 2 7/8 x 2 5/8 |
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| Alphabet Alfresco: 1 3/8 x 2 |
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| Land of the Inca: 2 5/8 x 2 7/8 |
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| First Emperor of China: 2 3/4 x 2 1/2 |
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| Toad: 2 3/8 x 2 1/2 |
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| Masks: 2 3/8 x 2 5/8 |
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| Marco Polo: 2 1/2 x 2 3/4 |
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| How Rabbit Lost His Tail: 2 3/8 x 2 9/16 |
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