Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

FRASCONI. –. Known Fables.

Printed in red and black. With 12 mostly full-page orig. woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. 32 unn. leaves. Small 8vo. Marbled boards with front label, in transparent dust-jacket. Untrimmed, top margin unopened. Black endpapers, twice interleaved with red china paper. – New York, The Spiral Press, November 1964.

One of 500 copies on Goyu paper, signed by the artist. The illus. were printed from the original blocks. Antonio Frasconi (b. 1919 in Buenos Aires) grew up in Montevideo. He moved to New York in 1945. By the 1950s he had become widely recognized as a leading graphic artist, especially in woodblock printing and book illustrations. – Not in Bodemann or Fabula docet. – Good copy. – Best.-Nr. 6842