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Price: US$23.06 + shipping
Description: A prospectus promoting four books, namely 'A Guide to the Hand Press', 'Herbert Hodgson - Printer', 'Agnes Miller Parker' and 'Simon Brett's Bookplates' due to be published in 1989 and early 1990. Publisher's pink laid card wrappers with hand-sewn pages; 165mm x 135mm, pp. [12] with two engravings, one being full-page. A prospectus in Fine condition.
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Description: A prospectus promoting four books, namely 'A Guide to the Hand Press', 'Herbert Hodgson - Printer', 'Agnes Miller Parker' and 'Simon Brett's Bookplates' due to be published in 1989 and early 1990. Publisher's pink laid card wrappers with hand-sewn pages; 165mm x 135mm, pp. [12] with two engravings, one being full-page. A prospectus in Fine condition, now in a clear, archival-quality, protective display pocket.
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Price: US$79.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 43 pp. Bibliography. Introduction by Richard Knowles. Tipped in frontispiece portrait of Herbert Hodgson. Tan cloth spine over color paste paper boards made by Claire Maziarczyk. A fine copy. ".a unique and personal account of the printing of a book which has become almost as legendary as its author.the 1926 Cranwell edition of T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom." - Introduction.
Seller: Carpe Diem Fine Books, ABAA, Monterey, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, limited to 340 copies printed and published by Simon Lawrence at his Fleece Press. With a three-page introduction by Richard Knowles. 8vo. 43pp. Quarter cloth with decorated paper sides and a paper spine label. Tipped-in photographic frontispiece portrait of Hodgson. A fine copy. No dust wrapper called for. The first appearance in print of the author's account of his printing career, including his involvement with the 1926 Cranwell edition of T.E.Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom'. O'Brien F0509a.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Hodgson, Herbert. Herbert Hodgson Printer. The Fleece Press, Wakefield, 1989.
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Herbert Hodgson was the printer of T E Lawrence's legendary 1926 Seven Pillars of Wisdom and later went on to be pressman at the Gregynog Press in Wales. Here he tells his own story in a very personal way. Introduction by Richard Knowles, FSA who sets the scene and relates the story behind the printing of SP. 340 copies of the book were printed by Simon Lawrence at his Fleece Press. 43pp bound in quarter cloth with Claire Maziarczyk paste paper covered boards. A fine copy of an interesting and fine private press book. No other edition of this text published.
Seller: Rickaro Books BA PBFA, Wakefield, United Kingdom
Price: US$108.87 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 340 copies set in Garamond printed in red and black on Hahnemuhle paper. Duotone photograph printed at the Senecio Press tipped-in. Quarter fawn cloth with printed spine label, Claire Maziarczyk paste paper-covered boards, greens, mauve, purple and brown. A fine copy. With some interesting recollections on the printing of the first edition of T.E. Lawrence's The Seven Pillars of Wisdom for Manning Pike.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 43,[3]pp. Octavo. Quarter cloth and pastepaper over boards, printed spine label. Portrait. Small bookplate on front free endsheet. Fine. First edition. Introduction by Richard Knowles. One of 340 copies printed on mould made paper. Includes the first publication of Hodgson's recollections of working with TEL on the 1926 Cranwell Subscribers' SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$131.55 + shipping
Description: ( In englischer Sprache. Aus einer Auflage von 340 Exemplaren ). Mit einem montierten Frontispizporträt. 43 Seiten, 1 Blatt. Auf Büttenpapier gedruckt. Ohln mit farbig gemusterten Einbanddeckeln, 8° ( 23 x 16 cm ). Von guter und dekorativer Erhaltung. ( Gewicht 300 Gramm )( Weitere Pics auf Anfrage - further images at request )
Seller: Antiquariat Friederichsen, Hamburg, Germany
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: One of 340 copies. Illustrated. 43 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. 'this sounds interesting'. "The Secretary of my Union asked me if I would like to go over to a place at Paddington to help and advise a chap who had taken on a job of printing a private book all on his own, but had had no practical experience, only theory and what he had watched other people do. . I thought to myself, 'this sounds interesting.'" First publication of this remarkable portion of printer Herbert Hodgson's manuscript autobiography, recounting his work printing the subscriber edition of T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, followed by an account of how this led to his work at the Gregynog Press. A beautiful little book with important content. O'Brien F0509a Quarter cloth and pastepaper by Claire Maziarczyk over boards, by Smith Settle. As new Illustrated. 43 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$189.57 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: One of 340 copies of the First Edition printed at the Fleece Press by Simon Lawrence. On Hahnemuble Book Wove mould made paper, bound by Smith Settle of Otley. Quarter cloth binding with paste paper made by Claire Maziarczyk. Dull bottle-green endpapers. Clear, removable, archival protective cover fitted to book. Octavo. pp. [1-2] blank; [1] half-title; [2] photograph of the author; [3] title page; [4] details of book; 5-43 text [44-46] blank; [47] limitation page; [48-54] blank. A book in Fine condition.
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom