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Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Small quarto, quarter light blue cloth with buckram covered boards, decorations in silver and black lettering, roughly 300 pp., b/w photos and drawings with some addtional color, ink-stamps Preface by Jon T. Winterich. Articles are "A Cumulative Lst ofthe Examples of Bookmaking Selected an SHown by the Amercan Institute of Graphic Arts," "Tha Makng of Scholarly Books, Samuel T. Farquhar, "Book-Making in the South," "The Riverside Press," "Ten Years of Book Making Progress at H. Wolff," Paul Standard, "The Walpole Printing Offce, The Peter Pauper Press, Nt to Menton the Blue-Behinded Ape," Puppetry Imprints & Ther Making," Paul McPharlin, "Hawthorn House.A Record of the Fist Five Years." George Grady Press, New York," "The Ward Ritchie Press," "A Decade of Effort in Behalf of Easy Reading," Taylor & Taylor," "The Press of the Woolly Whale: Concerning a Private Press Founded in New York in 1928," Melbert B. Cary, Jr., "Ten Examples of Some Recent Books Producred by the Haddon Craftsmen," "The Limited Editions Club: A Survey of Eight Years," Carl Purington Rollns, Printer to Yale University, "Ten Years' Book Making and a Bibliography, The Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago," "University of Oklahma Press,"
Seller: Henry Hollander, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Winterich, J. T. , Preface. The Annual of Bookmaking, 1927-1937. The Colophon, New York, 1938.
Price: US$32.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: The Colophon, 1938. First Edition. 11 x 7 ½ in. Unpaginated [320] pages. Preface by John T. Winterich. Profusely illustrated with examples of title pages, typefaces, and book-production and illustration. Rockwell Kent illustrated title page. Coverage includes many trade and small press publishers such as Rydal Press, Alfred A. Knopf, Derrydale Press, Ward Ritchie Press, Yale University Press, Lakeside Press, University of Oklahoma Press, many others, and an extensive list year-by-year of the Best Fifty Books. Beige & light blue cloth stamped in black and silver, designed by W. A. Dwiggins. Cloth in very good plus condition, spine moderately faded, no owner's name.; Numerous illustrations; 11 x 7 1/2 inches; 320 pages
Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 5 x 4 ." 16 pp. With nine floral woodcut vignettes by Paul Landacre (including title-page vignette). Original green printed paper wrappers stitched at spine. Printed gray paper label on front cover. With a laid-in ÒBy Way of ExplanationÓ leaf describing the process of writing, illustrating, and printing the item. A fine copy. One of 150 copies printed as a Christmas keepsake by Ward Ritchie. Ward Ritchie Bibliography, No. 78.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.