ORDER AND CHAOS CHEZ HANS REICHEL: Introduction by Lawrence Durrell
Tucson, Arizona: Loujon Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. The Cork Edition, limited to 1,399 copies bound with a distinctive cork front flyleaf. "Written in 1937-38 in Paris, this book was penned without carbon & gifted as a long intimate book letter to the painter Hans Reichel," a founding member of the little group which grew up around Henry Miller, Anais Nin, and Alfred Perles in the Villa Seurat of Hollowed Memory. This award-winning small-press production is printed on handmade linweave spectra paper of various colors and bound in woven tissue-covered boards. Includes a tipped-in photograph of Miller by Ina Paulandre, a self portrait by Hans Reichel, and textual drawings and reproductions. The printed limitation sheet and a printed letter from the editors are laid in, along with a prospectus for Crucifix in a Deathhand by Charles Bukowski. Square octavo. Original stiff white cardstock boards, printed in blue on the front panel. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, with the publisher's green paper seal still in place and housed in the publisher's slipcase. Shifreen & Jackson A157c. Fine / Fine. Item #74008
Price: $300.00