Arm & Hammer Press
American Folk Art on U.S. Postage Stamps
Sugar Land, TX: Arm & Hammer Press, 2006. Unpaginated. Approximately 3 x 2 3/8". LIMITED EDITION of 35 copies, this being #5. Pictorial boards, illustrated in color, paper label on spine. A fine copy.
Folk art (defined as art that is created by individuals who were not academically trained and that adheres to the aesthetic standards of the small communities where it was produced) includes amish quilts, native american pottery, woodcarved figures, etc.
The Oval Portrait
Sugar Land, TX: Arm & Hammer Press, 2004. 2 1/4 x 2 1/2". LIMITED EDITION of 65 copies, this being #50. Black cloth over boards, gilt decoration stamped on cover, paper label on spine, frontispiece illustration of Poe, in fine condition.
"The Oval Portrait" is a short horrow story written by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), first published in 1842. One of his shortest stories, it is about the sinister happenings encompassing a portrait in a chateau.