Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
CHEEVER, JOHN. Atlantic Crossing: Excerpts from the Journals of John Cheever. Introduction by Susan Cheever. Hand-set and printed in black, ochre, and rust. Tall 4to, full russet leather by Craig Jensen; original cloth-covered drop tray box, few scattered soil marks; prospectus laid in. Cottondale, AL; Ex Ophidia Press, 1986

Additional Details

press copy-numbered 8 for susan cheever from an edition of only 90 and with a Typed Letter Signed by printer Richard-Gabriel Rummonds presenting her with this copy and mentioning that Brendan Gill (who brought Cheever and Rummonds together for the project) would help facilitate a National Public Radio spot for the work. 1 page, 8vo, on Ex Ophidia letterhead. 10 August 1986. Cheever died before he could edit these excerpts which are printed here with only very few corrections from his original drafts. Susan Cheever saw it through publication for her father.