Live auction - Lot 96
[France - Hours Press]
One Day.
Chapelle-Réanville, Hours Press, 1929
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
4to.
Publ. brown binding with gilt lettering on front cover (somewhat faded, extremities sl. rubbed). Uncut copy.
Edition limited to 500 copies, one of the 300 on Vergé (n. 258). Fifth book issued on the Hours Press. Photographic front. showing the author.
The Hours Press was established in Normandy by Nancy Cunard who had obtained the equipment of the Three Mountains Press at a bargain price. "The success of the Hours Press was never in doubt except at the very beginning, when Cunard had only vague ideas of producing contemporary poetry. In its three years, the Hours Press was typographically insignificant (despite its exciting bindings), but in literary terms it was one of the most important of all the private presses".
Ref. Cave, The Private Press, p. 193.