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1980Best.-Nr. 2516New York: Dover Publications 1980. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xl292; xvii326 pages. 2 volumes. Reprint of the 1937 second edition. Profusely illustrated. Still the best book on the subject. Well preserved set. Dover Publications unknown books
Best.-Nr. 34725Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd ed Cambridge 1951. 2 vols clothbound very good condition in dust jackets. Fly-leaves have stamp of previous owner Editor Inland Printer. . Other hardcover books
1966Best.-Nr. 73058Cambridge:: Harvard University Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1966. Hardcover. B00AH5CY4I . Complete in two volumes. With illustrations. Second printing of the third edition. Both volumes are very good in a very good price clipped dust jackets. . Harvard University Press, hardcover books
1980Best.-Nr. 1070138vo two volume set paperback illustrated 292 326 pp. Some normal agingvery slight corner folds otherwise very good. Covers printing types from their invention to the 1800s. Dover Publications, Inc, books
1937Best.-Nr. 62750London: Oxford University Press 1937. Second printing of the second edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xl 292; xix 1 326; 367 plates some folding showing examples of the use of type from Gutenberg through the early 20th century; very good in original blue cloth gilt-stamped spines in dust jackets with short chips splits and tears. From the library of Kim Merker. Oxford University Press unknown books
1980Best.-Nr. 51506New York: Dover Publications Inc. 1980. 2 volumes 8vo pp. xl 292; xvii 1 3-326; type specimens throughout; blue cloth-backed marbled boards gilt-lettered spines; fine. A reprint of the second 1937 edition publish by Harvard University Press. Standard and respected work. Dover Publications, Inc. unknown books
1951Best.-Nr. 41875Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1951. Second edition second printing 2 volumes 8vo plates some folding and illustrations in text; a fine bright set in original red cloth gilt-lettered spines. Standard reference. Harvard University Press unknown books
1951Best.-Nr. 200835Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press 1951. Second Edition. Hardcover. VG Boards are lightly edgeworn/sunned/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are toned with some smudging; interiors are very clean but lightly toned; bindings are solid. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering; vol. 1 - 292 pp.; vol. 2 - 326 pp.; both vols. include various type faces a few pages fold out. Harvard University Press hardcover books
1941Best.-Nr. 490New Haven: William Edwin Rudge 1941. Updike Daniel Berkeley. Some Aspects of Printing Old and New. New Haven: William Edwin Rudge 1941. 4to. 265 x 195 mm. 10 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. vi 73 pp. Illustrated with one half-tone portrait of the author at his desk. Bound in slate grey linen cloth title in gilt on upper board. With chapters on Gutenberg characteristics of a well-made book modern typography the educated man in the printing industry and American university presses. William Edwin Rudge unknown books
1941Best.-Nr. 51504New Haven: William Edwin Rudge 1941. First edition printed at the Merrymount Press 4to pp. 4 72 2; ornamented title page 1 collotype plate; a near fine copy in original dark gray cloth gilt-stamped spine and upper cover; near fine. Without a dust jacket as issued. Six essays including "The Essentials of a Well-made Book" "The Place of the Educated Man in the Printing Industry" and "American University Presses." Smith 908. William Edwin Rudge unknown books
1941Best.-Nr. 12811New Haven: William Edwin Rudge 1941. First edition printed at the Merrymount Press 4to pp. 4 72-74; ornamented title-page 1 collotype plate; a near fine copy in orig. dark gray cloth gilt minimal wear to extremities lower spine end bumped. Six essays including "The Essentials of a Well-made Book" "The Place of the Educated Man in the Printing Industry" and "American University Presses." Smith 908. William Edwin Rudge unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 55079Iowa City: The Prairie Press 1961. Broadside 9x13-1/2 inches folded twice. Printed in black with red title and decoration at top of text in gray. Paper slightly spotted o/w VG. Printer's note reads: The Practice of Typography has been designed hand set and printed by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press Iowa City Iowa. The types are Eric Gill's Perpetua Titling capitals and Joanna. Mcmlxi The Prairie Press unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 48422Iowa City: Prairie Press 1961. Broadside approximately 13½" x 9" printed in black blue and red on wove paper; old bookseller's description taped to verso and from whence the following comes else fine. "Nowhere on this broadside does it show that it was printed at the Prairie Press but it is pictured in the article "Carroll Coleman on Printing - Excerpts from a 36-Year's Correspondence with Emerson G. Wulling" Books at Iowa no. 23 1975. In a personal conversation Carroll Coleman told me that he had always admired this quote and as he had just acquired Eric Gill's "Joanna" type he decided to make the first use of it for the body of this broadside." This is a distinct edition from that of the same text which is twice folded and printed on two sides. Not in Cheever. Prairie Press unknown books
Best.-Nr. 5880Scarce autograph letter signed 2pp by Daniel Berkeley Updike 1860-1941 Boston book designer and printer possibly to Thomas Niles a partner in the famed press of Roberts Brothers. Written on Updike personal stationary with printed header ìD.B. Updike Decorative Printing and Book-Making 6 Beacon St. Bostonî and dated Aug 29 1893 ìDear Mr. Miles: Will you kindly send a list of books published by you by ìH.H.î to Mrs. Harold Brown Bellevue Avenue Newport R. I. with the portion of the catalogs in which they seem marked or turned down. And truly much obliged D. B. Updike.î Letters by Updike are quite scarce. D. B. Updike 1860-1941 was an American printer and historian of typography. He obtained his first book-related job as a temporary volunteer in the library of the Providence Athenaeum. In 1880 he was offered a job as an errand boy at Houghton Mifflin and Company of Boston where he worked at the firm for twelve years moving up to the advertising department where he prepared copy. In his last two years with the firm he was transferred to the Riverside Press at Cambridge Mass. where he learned about the mechanics of printing and displayed an aptitude for designing books. Upon leaving Houghton Mifflin in 1893 Updike founded the Merrymount Press. unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 230093New York: The American Institute of Graphic Arts 1947. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good or better in a Very good plus dustwrapper. Pages light brown. Corners slightly bent. Gold gilt letters on spine. Corners on dustwrapper torn. One inch piece missing from top edge of dustwrapper spine. Dustwrapper spine light brown. Notes on the Press and its Work. With a gathering of essays by Stanley Morison Gregg Anderson T. M. Cleland M. A. DeWolfe Howe G. Parker Winship Rudolph Ruzicka David T. Pottinger and Carl P. Rollins: and a Gallery of Merrymount Title-pages and Merrymount Types. The American Institute of Graphic Arts hardcover books
1947Best.-Nr. 283077New York: The American Institute of Graphic Arts 1947. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with page 103 creased corners lightly worn lacking the dustwrapper. The American Institute of Graphic Arts hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 002792Boston: The Merrymount Press 1937. Soft cover. Very Good. Duodecimo. 9pp. Limited to 175 copies printed at the Merrymount Press. Printed paper wrappers. Wroth's copy. Although there are no ownership inscriptions this item came from a large collection of bibliographical items belonging to Lawrence Wroth along with items from A.N.L. Munby and Thomas Streeter's collections. Boston: The Merrymount Press, 1937. paperback
Best.-Nr. 73-5027New York: American Institute of Graphic Arts 1939. 4to. Circa 30 pp Very good. Hard cover. Black and white plates. New York: American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1939 hardcover
1998Best.-Nr. 7355New York: American Printing History Association 1998. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Small quarto. 2 vi 182 6 pp. plates illus. Limited edition number 50 of 50 special copies from a full edition of 500. Signed by the designer Stinehour on the limitation page. As issued in marbled paper boards with cloth shelf-back and gold-stamped paper label on the spine. Two hinged in facsimiles found in all copies as well as several in-text illustrations some full page. Additionally there are three specimens two are bifolia and one single sheet are hinged in at the back in a section "Limited Issue Supplement" found only in this special edition of 50 copies. Fascinating correspondence by two larger than life figures in the early 20th century. A beautiful copy with only a bit of foxing to the fore-edge. From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard with his small label on the rear pastedown. American Printing History Association unknown
1924Best.-Nr. 009633Cambridge Mass: Harvard University Press 1924. Hardcover. Near Fine -. 10 69 1 p.; 22 cm. Beige cloth spine with gilt spine title; marbled brown paper over boards. Top page edges gilt. Bookplate of Raymond Dexter Havens 1880-1954 on front fixed endpaper. Havens received his Ph.D. in English from Harvard University in 1908 and then taught at the University of Rochester which was interrupted by his service as a Y.M.C.A. volunteer in France from 1917 to 1919. In 1925 he was appointed Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. Inscribed on the blank page following the front endpapers: "To R. H. fr. C. B. Xmas 1924." Written on the front fixed endpaper: "Raymond D. Havens from Cecilia Beaux Christmas 1924." Havens and the American painter Cecilia Beaux 1855-1942 were friends; the Raymond Dexter Havens Papers at the University of Rochester contain a number of letters from Beaux to Havens from 1915 to 1941. On the title page verso is written in pencil: "Gift Dr. Raymond D. Havens." A bookplate of the Johns Hopkins University library partially covers Havens' bookplate on the front fixed endpaper. Small perforated stamp of the university's initials "JHU" on title page and final page of text. Contents: On the Planning of Printing -- Style in the Use of Type -- The Seven Champions of Typography. In Near Fine- Condition: corners are rubbed; clean and tight. Harvard University Press hardcover
1924Best.-Nr. 268329Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1924. hardcover. near fine. Slim 8vo 70 pages khaki cloth backed boards. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1924. First Edition. Near Fine. Printed by the author at the Merrymount Press. Signed presentation by Updike. Laid in is a 2 page A.L.S. and stamped envelope from Updike dated Dec. 16th 1935. Harvard University Press unknown
1924Best.-Nr. 0008442Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1924. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 69 pages marbled cloth frayed a bit at head of spine unopened. Ex libris printer John Frank Connor of R. H. Connor & Co. Buffalo NY and with a business card. Copy no. 86 of only 260 copies thus. Three essays by this master printer with facsimiles Harvard University Press hardcover
1924Best.-Nr. 252927Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1924. First. hardcover. near fine. Slim 8vo 70 pages khaki cloth backed boards. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1924. First Edition. Near Fine. Printed by the author at the Merrymount Press. Signed inscription by Updike " who wishes this book was a better exponent or example of what it commends in book-making!" Laid in are a T.L.S. & a T.N.S. from Updike on the Merrymount Press letterhead. Harvard University Press unknown
1924Best.-Nr. 25679Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1924. Limited edition. Hardcover. vg. 1/260. 8vo. Original marbled boards with printed title-label on spine as issued. Signed by D. B. Updike on limitation page. Pages unopened. Contents: On the planning of printing. Style in the use of type. The seven champions of typography. Illustrated with 11 reproductions of title-pages bookplates programs invitations and tickets. Head and tail of spine slightly chipped with closed tears. Severely torn glassine jacket separated in 3 pieces laid-in. Binding in good- interior in near fine condition. Harvard University Press hardcover
1934Best.-Nr. 599147Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. With a bibliographical list of books printed at the press 1893-1933 by Julian Pearce Smith. Small quarto. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Owner name on the front pastedown spine ends gently bumped a few faint scratches near fine lacking the dust jacket. Limited to 500 copies. Harvard University Press hardcover
