Anthoensen, Fred. JOHN BELL TYPE ITS LOSS AND RECOVERY With a Type-facsimile of John Bell's First Type Specimen 1788. Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, 1939.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: White printed wrappers, large 12mo., 20, (7) pages. One of 250 copies reprinted at Meriden Gravure in 1965 for the Heritage of the Graphic Arts, Series 3, 1966. A fine copy.

Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.

Anthoensen, Fred. JOHN BELL TYPE ITS LOSS AND REDISCOVERY. Southworth-Anthoensen Press (But Printed by The Meriden Gravure Co. in 1965 for the Heritage of the Graphic Arts), Portland, ME, 1939.

Price: US$36.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. paper wrappers. 20, (8) pages. With a Type-facsimile of John Bell's first Type Specimen, 1788. Limited to 250 copies. A fine copy.

Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.

Anthoensen, Fred. The Art of Cutting, Casting, and Preparing of Letter for Printing, With a Neat Representation of a Letter-Founder's Work-House. The Southworth-Anthoensen Press., Portland, Maine, 1939.

Price: US$39.95 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First printing in small paper covers with sewn binding. Limited to 350 copies. Five not on Typefounding, one illustration, eight pages of text. Soiling to covers, Light water stain visible to top and bottom edges throughout. Good. Photographs on request.

Seller: Ken Jackson, Calgary, AB, Canada

Anthoensen, Fred. The Art of Cutting, Casting and Preparing of Letter for Printing, with a neat Representation of a Letter-founder's Work-house, together with a Note on Typefounding by Fred Anthoensen.. Printed at Portland, Maine by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press. One of 350 copies., 1939.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 5 1/4 in. x 7 3/4 in., title-page with design; note on type-founding; reproduction of a 1750 engraving (Art of Casting showing the Letter-founder's workhouse), diagram; v, 8 pp. + printer's page. "This book has been set in Caslon Old Face cast from the original matrices and three hundred and fifty copies printed by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine." Light olive paper wrappers, sewn. with printer's printed informational label pasted to the front inner cover (this item was being sent to friends of the press). Front covers show slight curling to the paper fore-edge, possibly from the original, pasted label on the inner cover.

Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.