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Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book in America. Godine Publisher, David R., 1977.

Price: US$6.29 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.

Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book in America. David R. Godine / Dartmouth, Boston, 1977.

Price: US$10.00 + shipping

Description: 4to, 250 pp. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket

Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.

Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book in America. Godine Publisher, David R., 1977.

Price: US$10.28 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.

BLUMENTHAL, Joseph. The Printed Book in America.. David R. Godine - Publisher, Boston., 1977.

Price: US$11.14 + shipping

Description: 1977, xvi,250pp. Illustrated. Cloth. Dust jacket with signs of use/damage. Book in good condition.

Seller: Emile Kerssemakers ILAB, Heerlen, Netherlands

Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book in America. David R. Godine Publisher, 1977.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Description: 250 p. Audience: General/trade. Book Conditions: Very good. Missing front end page. Clean inside pages and a tight binding. Reading copy. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library.

Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.

BLUMENTHAL, Joseph.. Printed Book in America.. David R. Godine,, Boston:, 1977.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 70 full-page illustrations, including 32 in color. No indication of printing. Trace foxing on top edge, previous owner's book-plate on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good dust jacket.; 268 pages

Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.

Blumenthal, Joseph. THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA. David R. Godine, 1977.

Price: US$15.59 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: David R. Godine, 1977. Hardback, d/j, 4to, xvi,250pp, illust. D/j slightly marked and chipped. A fair copy. 0879232102/1.0us

Seller: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, United Kingdom

Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book In America. David R. Godine, 1977.

Price: US$16.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Exlibrary with usual library markings. Front free endpaper removed. ; 250 pages

Seller: Jonathan Grobe Books, Deep River, IA, U.S.A.

Blumenthal, Joseph. PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA.|THE. David R. Godine, Boston, 1977.

Price: US$18.00 + shipping

Description: 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 250, (2) pages. First edition. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well-illustrated. Jacket spine faded; chipped around edges.

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

Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book in America. David R. Godine with Dartmouth College Library, Boston, 1977.

Price: US$18.50 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Boston: David R. Godine, with the Dartmouth College Library, (1977). First Edition. 11 x 7.5 in. xvi,250pp, Index, Select Bibliography. Maroon cloth, unworn, top edge of text block spotted, near fine; dj slight worn at edges, near fine. 70 full-page illustrations (32 color). Contents: The Colonial Period; The Nineteenth Century and into the Twentieth Century; The Renaissance in American Printing; The Twentieth Century. ISBN 0879232102; 11 x 7.5 inches; 250 pages

Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.

Blumenthal (Joseph).. The Printed Book in America.. Crown 4to, pp.xvi,250, David R. Godine, Publisher, Boston, 1977., 1977.

Price: US$19.49 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 70 full-page illustrations, with 32 in colours. Maroon buckram with gilt spine titling, printed dust-jacket. A fine copy.

Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom

Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book in America. David R. Godine Publishers, Boston, 1977.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: No markings. 250 pages.

Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.

Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book in America. David R. Godine in association with The Dartmouth College Library, Boston, MA, 1977.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Minor wear; previous owner has neatly removed front end paper; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; well illustrated with reproductions of the title pages of seventy significant American printed books.

Seller: Hourglass Books, vancouver, BC, Canada

Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book In America. David R. Godine, 1977.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Exlibrary with usual library markings. Some cover wear. Some dust jacket sunning. ; 250 pages

Seller: Jonathan Grobe Books, Deep River, IA, U.S.A.

Joseph Blumenthal. THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA. David R. Godine, Boston, 1977.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 7 x 10 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; no wear, covers clean, upper text edge heavily foxed. BInding tight and text unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD ; very clean, spine mildly sunned. Books. Stax.

Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.

Joseph Blumenthal. THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA. David R. Godine, Boston, 1977.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Description: 250p. A hardcover book in fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The book is clean and tight. The jacket has two closed tears at the top of the front panel, both measuring about 1 inch. Otherwise intact. A historical and critical survey of American printing.

Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.

Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book in America. David R. Godine, 1977.

Price: US$21.50 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A few faint spots on top page ridge. 1977 Large Hardcover. xvi, 250 pp. ".a narrative of how printing arrived, spread, and flourished in the American colonies--of how it gradually attained, in its finest manifestations, the status of an art--of how in this century it had associated with it such diverse and extraordinary talents as Updike, Rogers, Goudy, Dwiggins, Ruzicka, and the Grabhorns. .there are discussed private and special presses.

Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.

Blumenthal, Joseph. THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA. Boston: David R. Godine, in Association with Dartmouth College Library, Boston, 1977.

Price: US$24.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Bright and fine. Full maroon cloth with gilt titled spine. xvi, 250 pages. Illustrated with 70 plates. Yellow dust jacket printed in black has the inner flap price-clipped else bright and fine also with protective mylar cover.

Seller: RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA, CARLSBAD, CA, U.S.A.

Blumenthal, Joseph. PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA.|THE. David R. Godine, Boston, 1977.

Price: US$24.00 + shipping

Description: 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 250, (2) pages. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well-illustrated.

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

Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book in America. David R. Godine, Boston, 1977.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A clean copy in a clipped DJ that has some minor closed tears to the spine but protected in a plastic cover. Overall, an attractive copy with the plates in fine condition.

Seller: Wiggins Fine Books ABAA, ILAB, SNEAB, Shelburne Falls, MA, U.S.A.

Joseph Blumenthal. The Printed Book in America. David R Godine, Dartmouth College Library, Boston, MA, 1977.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: "A comprehensive account of the development, variety, and quality of American typography." Private and special presses, illustrators and authors, more. 70 full page illustrations, 32 in color. Book appears unread. Jacket is a bit darkened along spine, and top edge is slightly frayed where it overlaps the book. 268 pages, 7 3/4" x 10 3/4"

Seller: Lucky Panther Books, Leonia, NJ, U.S.A.

Blumenthal, Joseph.. The Printed Book in America.. David R. Godine Publisher, Boston, 1977.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very good (name written on top of front endpaper) in good dust jacket (1.75 inch tear on upper edge of front panel just in from the spine). Illustrated with b&w and color reproductions of title-pages. Edition and printing not stated. Hard Cover. 251pp. 19.5 x 28cm. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.

Blumenthal, Joseph.. THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA.. (Boston: David A. Godine, [1977])., 1977.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Description: Small 4to, cloth, dust jacket, [xvi], 250, i pp. Illustrated, some of it outlined in color. First Edition. A Very Good copy.

Seller: Steve Finer - Rare Books, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.

Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book in America. David R. Godine, 1977.

Price: US$26.50 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Sticker ghost on front jacket flap, top edge of jacket bumped. 1977 Large Hardcover. xvi, 250 pp. ".a narrative of how printing arrived, spread, and flourished in the American colonies--of how it gradually attained, in its finest manifestations, the status of an art--of how in this century it had associated with it such diverse and extraordinary talents as Updike, Rogers, Goudy, Dwiggins, Ruzicka, and the Grabhorns. .there are discussed private and special presses.

Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.

Blumenthal, Joseph. PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA.|THE. David R. Godine, Boston, 1977.

Price: US$27.00 + shipping

Description: 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 250, (2) pages. First edition. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well-illustrated. With a small paper label on the free endpaper calling attention to the fact that this book was printed on Mohawk Superfine Text.

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

Blumenthal, Joseph. PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA.|THE. David R. Godine, Boston, 1977.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Description: 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 250, (2) pages. First edition. Presentation on half-title "For Herb Johnson, Friend and Colleague, Joe - '79." Fine in fine dust jacket. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well-illustrated.

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

BLUMENTHAL, JOSEPH. The Printed Book in America.. Boston [Ma], David R. Godine Publisher-Dartmouth College Library. . 1977, 1977.

Price: US$32.02 + shipping

Description: Original publisher's dark-red cloth hardback, gilt title spine, dustjacket, 4to: xvi, 250pp., very richly illustrated [70 plates], bibliography, index, colophon. Very fine copy.

Seller: Antiquariaat Schot, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands

Blumenthal, Joseph.. THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA.. Boston: David R. Godine & Dartmouth College Library. xvi + 250 p., 1977.

Price: US$33.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 4to illus. -[Cat. 66-84.] - Letterpress printed by Stinehour Press. Covers American typographers from Colonial times to present, with 70 plates. Very Fine in unclipped Fine DJ.

Seller: ADAMS ANGLING BOOKS, BERKELEY, CA, U.S.A.

Books About Books ( Blumenthal, Joseph ). THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA. David R. Godine / The Dartmouth College Library, 1977.

Price: US$34.80 + shipping

Description: THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA, David R. Godine / The Dartmouth College Library, 1977, first edition, faint scattered foxing to the top page edges, else fine in just about fine dust-wrapper with 70 full page illustrations of which 32 are in color.

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

Blumenthal, Joseph. THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA. David R. Godine, Publisher [1977], Boston, MA, 1977.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Description: A survey of typography in America from the earliest days. Also covers great private and special presses. Sections are The Colonial Period, The Nineteenth and Into the Twentieth Century, The Renaissance of American Printing, The Twentieth Century. With 70 plates. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with slight fade to the spine panel. (26420)

Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.

Joseph Blumenthal. THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA. David R. Godine, Boston, 1977.

Price: US$59.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 4to. 250 pp. Inscribed by Blumenthal to Connecticut bookseller Barbara Farnsworth on the half-title page. Laid in are two blank sheets with Blumenthal's letterhead from Dartmouth College Library, a card reading "Thanks for the AB from Joe Spiral" (Blumenthal's nickname), and a xeroxed copy of the New Yorker 'Talk of the Town' review of the book. VG/VG. The dust jacket is lightly soiled in a clear protective sleeve, original price intact on flap. Light foxing to text block and endmatter. Text and illustrations are pristine throughout. No writing or markings of any kind. Photos are of the actual book you will receive. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed with care in a box.

Seller: Lost Time, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.

Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book in America. David R. Godine, Boston, 1977.

Price: US$72.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards, spine stamped in gilt. Light wear to dust jacket at extremities, else fine. With 70 full-page illustrations throughout, including 32 in color.

Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book In America. David R. Godine, Boston, Massachusetts, 1977.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: This volume traces the main currents in the development of the printed book in America and presents its leading practitioners. Includes 70 plates and a selective bibliography. The book is bergundy cloth with a price-clipped gold and brown dust jacket. Both are in "fine" condition.

Seller: Coalesce Bookstore, Morro Bay, CA, U.S.A.

Joseph Blumenthal.. The Printed Book In America.. Boston: David R. Godine., 1977.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8vo, [ca 250 pp.]. Very Good+. Hard Covers. Maroon cloth covered boards, with gilt lettering on spine. Dust Jacket Very Good, with minor stain on front. Protected by Mylar wraps. Color and B&W illustrations.From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Blumenthal, Joseph. PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA, THE. David R. Godine, Boston, 1977.

Price: US$90.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 4to 11" - 13" tall; 250 pages; Dust jacket has some staining, soiling and light edgewear.

Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.