Rollin

ref. 22071501 — Vancouver B.C.: Heavenly Monkey 2020. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 40 copies folio size 68 pp. signed by Rollin Milroy Claudia Cohen and Barbara Hodgson with accompanying letter and booklet. Rollin Milroy has earned an enthusiastic and devoted following through his attention to detail and exquisite letterpress printing. This checklist is itself a work of art replete with tipped-in specimens. Although as Milroy wrote in a letter announcing the book the book is "Heavenly Monkey's next / sort-of-last publication." He would issue two years later "The Lady or the Tiger bound tête-bêche with The Discourager of Hesitancy" also under the "HM" imprint. Issued in an edition of only forty copies the first ten containing extra specimens in a box. Again we cannot help but quote from the same letter: "I do not call these deluxe they simply are extra. I do not recommend them to anyone who actually owns HM books. My best hope is that the extras might prove useful to institutions in some educational or cautionary context." Accompanying the book is the aforementioned letter as well as a separate "sort-of announcement" which replicates some of the pages in the book along with a selection of cuts. ___DESCRIPTION: Parchment paper back lettered in black with painted paper over boards Ingres endpapers frontis a cut of a print shop with a monkey-headed character in center stage title page in black and brown the calligraphy by Martin Jackson the Contents page lists the books published by Milroy under both the "Heavenly Monkey" imprint as well as "HM Editions" the Dramatis Personae page lists those who have been involved in the enterprise marginalia throughout in Milroy's hand some of which are printed and some manuscript; folio size the binding 12 1/8" by 8 1/2" pagination: 1-4 5-66 1 colophon 1 press mark with an additional speciman tipped onto the rear flyleaf; total edition 40 copies this no. 19 the colophon signed by Claudia Cohen Barbara Hodgson and Rollin Milroy. ___CONDITION: Fine we acquired it directly from the publisher; it remains clean crisp and as new. ___CITATION: This Monkey's Gone to Heaven no. I.42. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note the following: i additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs please inquire for details; and ii any taxes duty or tariffs charged by your country will of necessity be your responsibility. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Heavenly Monkey hardcover books