#Valenti Angelo Author + Illustrator + Printer

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VALENTI ANGELO

Italian American designer, printer, illustrator, and printmaker Valenti Angelo (1897-1982) created decorations and illustrations for over 225 books over his long career. He emigrated from Italy to the U.S. with his family in 1905, settling in Antioch, California. At age 19, he moved to San Francisco to begin his artistic career, and in 1926 he produced his first book illustrations for the legendary Grabhorn Press, for which he illustrated 45 publications. During the Depression, he moved east to Bronxville, N.Y., where he decorated and illustrated books for the Limited Editions Club and wrote and illustrated children's books for Viking Press.

Toward the end of his time in Bronxville, before moving back to San Francisco in 1974, Angelo handset, printed, decorated, and illuminated this checklist of his work, Valenti Angelo, Author + Illustrator + Printer, in his Bronxville studio in 1969 in a limited edition of 55 copies signed by the artist. The book includes a forward by Robert Grabhorn (1900-1973) and a memoir of Angelo by author Annis Duff (1904-1986). Our copy is another donation from the estate of our friend Dennis Bayuzick.

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