A Beastly ABC.

Cambridge, MA: Runcible Press, [ca. 1985]. First edition. One of 50 numbered copies, signed by the author/printer/illustrator and printed on Kozo paper. 1 7/8 x 2 1/2 inches. With 24 linocuts by Parry with alphabet on the opposing versos. Bound in the Japanese manner; string-tied decorative wrappers. An excellent copy of this scarce miniature Marian Parry is an author, poet, illustrator and watercolor artist. Her books have been published by Knopf, Simon & Schuster, Greenwillow, Heritage Press and Limited Editions, Pharos Verlag (Switzerland) and Scholastic Books. She has had numerous one-person shows. Her work is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Houghton Library of Harvard University and the Smith College Rare Book Room. The main archive of her work is in the print collection of the Boston Public Library. Founder and senior instructor of the Watercolor Program for the Radcliffe Seminars at Harvard University, she was a fellow in the Bunting Fellowship Program at Radcliffe. Parry has illustrated 17 books. The first, “The Space Child’s Mother Goose,” published in 1958 by Simon & Schuster, is still in print.