THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII

Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1956. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Mild sunning and soiling to the spine. Near Fine in a Fine slipcase. Kurt Craemer. Quarto (7-1/8" x 11") bound in full light gray Italian linen with an overall Pompeii design in a darker gray, 538 pages. Introduction by Edgar Johnson. Printed on specially made Muslianco paper at the Officina Bodoni and illustrated with woodcuts by Kurt Craemer based on motifs he saw in Pompeii. Copy #39 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist and the printer, G. Mardersteig, on the colophon page.