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Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarter reddish-brown leather gilt with marbled paper-covered boards, small 4to., (x), 15 pages. One of 515 numbered copies printed on watermaked handmade paper for presentation to members of the American Institute of Graphic Arts as the 21st in their series of Keepsakes. 355 copies wrer printed for Private Disposal. Signed by Stone, and with the A.I.G.A. presentation slip laid in. Typical wear to the fragile spine, particularly at the ends, inner hinges starting but holding firm, a very good copy in archival mylar.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
. Typographia: An Ode on Printing. American Institute of Graphic Arts, Roanoke, 1926.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [10], 15 pp., 8vo, quarter leather, marbled paper sides, gilt title. A photographic facsimile of the first book printed in the American colonies (Williamsburg, 1730) on the subject of printing, from the John Carter Brown Library copy. With an introductory essay. No. 90 of 515 copies. Issued as a keepsake by the AIGA, with their printed presentation note laid in. Signed by the typographer, Edward L. Stone. Spine worn, with about a third of the leather backstrip chipped off; sides and interior fine.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarter reddish-brown leather gilt with marbled paper-covered boards, small 4to., (x), 15 pages. One of 515 numbered copies printed on French Glaslan watermarked handmade paper for presentation to members of the American Institute of Graphic Arts as the 21st in their series of Keepsakes. 355 copies were printed for Private Disposal. Signed by Stone, and with the A.I.G.A. presentation slip laid in. Slight cover wear and spine mildly faded, else a very good copy.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Brown 1/4 leather, marbled paper covered boards, printed on laid paper, housed in original slipcase (marbled paper covered cardstock boards). Leather slightly chipped at head of spine and mildly scuffed along spine panel; slipcase shows rubbed edges and corners, approx. 60% loss along top edge, otherwise complete. [x],15 pp. No. 68, hand-numbered (on limitation page) and signed by typographer Edward L. Stone (on bibliographical note page), of an edition limited to 870 total copies, this one of the 515 issued as presentation copies to members of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, with original presentation slip laid in. Facsimile reprint of the first book printed in the American colonies relating to the art of printing, originally issued in 1730, from the (then) only known copy. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
. Typographia: An Ode on Printing. Roanaoke, 1926.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: This is no. 273 of 515 copies given to Members of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, as a Souvenir-a keepsake, signed by Stone. Photographic Facimile from the Williamsburg Edition of 1730. 1 vols. 8vo. This was the first book that was published in Virginia. Quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Spine slightly chipped at top and bottom, else fine Photographic Facimile from the Williamsburg Edition of 1730. 1 vols. 8vo This is no. 273 of 515 copies given to Members of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, as a Souvenir-a keepsake, signed by Stone.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.