Christmas Stamps from Around the World, bound in a miniature artist’s book
(Somesuch Press) Christmas stamps from around the World. Introduction by Belmont Faries. Dallas. [TX] 1982. 3” x 2.7”. 18 Christmas stamps tipped-in. Designed, handset and printed by Don Graeme Kelley and Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent press. Bound by The Schuberth Bookbindery. Bound in red leather with gilt stamped illustration of Joseph and Mary on a donkey in relief. Spine with gilt title ‘Worldwide Christmas stamps’. Green illustrated endpapers with matching green paper slipcase with the same red endpaper illustrations. Red ribbon to remove book. No. 44 of 800 copies signed in red by Don Graeme Kelley and Susan Acker. Provenance: From the collection of Kathryn Ida Hill Rickard. With her Bookplate.
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