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Price: US$10.20 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 4pp prospectus printed black and red on cream paper from a single sheet (folded twice). Incorporates an Order Form. Hint of shelf wear to lower edge. Will adjust overseas shipping costs to reflect weight of this leaflet.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$102.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: History of the Marlborough College Press, 1934-1984. Limited to 220 copies - this is no.9.Edited by Richard Russell. The Whittington Press, UK, 1984. Hardback. Printed in an edition limited to 220 numbered copies, with 200 copies quarter-bound in Fell Buckram with decorated paper sides (this edition) and 20 copies bound in full goatskin. Condition: Light shelf wear to boards with light foxing to pages.
Seller: Devils in the Detail Ltd, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, this being one of 200 ordinary copies from the total edition of 220. Quarter-cloth and patterned-paper boards, 4to, 29 cm 51 pp. tipped-in specimens, 2 facsimile broadsides in pocket at end. From the introduction: "The Marlborough College Press was founded in 1934 and this account marks its jubilee. It has been written as a series of articles by former members. The Press is notable for some fine pieces of printing; for a stream of ephemeral work; for giving hundreds of boys, and some girls, an insight into one of our civilising crafts; and it has launched a fair number of Marlburians into careers in printing, publishing, paper, advertising, and television. It was founded in the traditions of the private press movement, and developed at one time into a small commercial business; but it now takes its place among numerous school activities." Contents: Introduction; Foundation and the Thirties, 1934-1940 by Richard Russell; Development in the Forties, 1940-1950 by Richard Russell; The Early Fifties, 1950-1955 by Paul Griffin; The Commercial Era, 1955-1960 by James Stanley and Peter Vacher; The Jobbing Era, 1960-1970 by Nicholas Manby Brown; The Seventies and on, 1970-1984 by Charles Graham Page; Appendix: Assistant Masters in Charge of the Press, Masters of the Chapel and Senior Printers; Bibliography (covering the Press' publications of 8 pages or more and including the number of copies where known ). Copy No. 10. Fine.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 220 copies, this being one of 200 (copy no. 58) quarter-bound in blue buckram over decorative paper sides, gilt-stamped spine; large 8vo, pp. [10], 51, [3]; 5 tipped-in sample pages, and 2 folding type specimen facsimiles in rear cover pocket; fine throughout.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Description: One of 20 specially-bound copies in full morocco, from an edition limited to 220. Original blue morocco, gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, 29 cm, 51 pp. tipped-in specimens, 2 facsimile broadsides in pocket at end. From the introduction: "The Marlborough College Press was founded in 1934 and this account marks its jubilee. It has been written as a series of articles by former members. The Press is notable for some fine pieces of printing; for a stream of ephemeral work; for giving hundreds of boys, and some girls, an insight into one of our civilising crafts; and it has launched a fair number of Marlburians into careers in printing, publishing, paper, advertising, and television. It was founded in the traditions of the private press movement, and developed at one time into a small commercial business; but it now takes its place among numerous school activities." Contents: Introduction; Foundation and the Thirties, 1934-1940 by Richard Russell; Development in the Forties, 1940-1950 by Richard Russell; The Early Fifties, 1950-1955 by Paul Griffin; The Commercial Era, 1955-1960 by James Stanley and Peter Vacher; The Jobbing Era, 1960-1970 by Nicholas Manby Brown; The Seventies and on, 1970-1984 by Charles Graham Page; Appendix: Assistant Masters in Charge of the Press, Masters of the Chapel and Senior Printers; Bibliography (covering the Press' publications of 8 pages or more and including the number of copies where known ). Copy No. VII. Spine slightly darkened, some blemishes to leather small scuffs and indentations) and area of slight darkening to rear board, contents Fine in a Near Very Good slipcase with slight fading and minor marks.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: x, 51, [2] pp., large 8vo, full dark blue Nigerian straight-grained goatskin, gilt spine titling, marbled endpapers, paper-covered slipcase. Illustrated with two small wood engravings by Edward Walter, five tipped-in specimen pages, a line-block reproduction of a type specimen, and lithographic reproductions of two broadsides (housed in a pocket on the rear pastedown). Printed on Sommerville cream laid paper. One of the engravings by Walter is gold-blocked on an oval leather panel and inlaid onto the front cover. Published for the 50th anniversary of the oldest school press in England. With six essays each covering periods of ten years or so of the press, followed by a bibliography of the press's output. Only 20 deluxe copies were produced; this copy not numbered. SIGNED by the printer/publisher/proprietor John Randle on the colophon page, with the notation "press copy." A very good copy overall; contents fine, spine age-toned to a greenish-grey, some dark spots on the rear cover, slipcase with a couple of small faint smudges and age-toned edges. Butcher, Whittington Press Bibliography 1982-93, no. 73; Printing at the Whittington Press, no. 35.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.