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Brooks, Charles S. (Stephen) Journey To Bagdad
New Haven, CT Yale University Press 1927 6th Printing Hardcover Very Good Illustrated by Allen Lewis
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and fraying to the spine ends and bumping and rubbing to the corners of the book covers. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There are a couple of spots of color loss to the front endpaper and some generalized toning to the text pages. "Brooks, Charles Stephen (25 June 1878-29 June 1934) was an essayist and playwright who was instrumental in the founding of the CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE. A Cleveland native, and the son of Stephen E. And Mary (Coffinberry) Brooks, he graduated from WEST HIGH SCHOOL and Yale University (1900) and then entered the family printing and stationery business. After rising to the rank of vice-president, he retired in 1915 to devote himself to a literary career that produced more than a dozen volumes. Most of these consisted of essays gleaned from numerous bicycle travels in England and elsewhere, of which the first, Journeys to Baghdad, was published in 1915. He indulged in a leisurely style on such fanciful topics as "The Decline of Night-Caps" and "In Defense of Plagiarism." "
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25.00 USD
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Carter, Harry Orlando Jewitt Wood Engraver
London, England Oxford University Press 1962 1st Edition; 1st Printing Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some light edge wear. There is some generalized light toning to the dust jacket as well. "Thomas Orlando Sheldon Jewitt (1799 – 30 May 1869) was an English architectural wood-engraver. " "Before the introduction of photographic processes, wood engraving was the standard method of book illustration. Jewitt's illustrations were widely used between 1820 and 1870. Many of his engravings are still reproduced in modern works and are frequently to be found in reference works covering architecture, archaeology, typography and natural history. He produced numerous engravings used for seals and bookplates."
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20.00 USD
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Ephemera Bell Type & Rule Company: Type Specimens Sheets
Los Angeles, CA Bell Type & Rule Company 1976 Other Very Good+
B&W Illustrations; This is a group of four sheets of paper, stapled on the left side and folded in thirds. The pages give samples of types available through this type foundry. All pages are printed on rectos only and are clean and bright. The first page includes a stapled price sheet dated June 1, 1976. "The Bell Type and Rule Company has been family owned and operated since 1932. The monotype on the left is still in operation today making hand set, type fonts daily. The company's found a home in Long Beach, CA in the basement of a building where the Bell's rented an apartment. During that time the only means of picking up metal was to use the family car. 'We would use wood planks and by hand run the barrel up the planks and tie it to the trunk of the 36 Desoto Coup. Then tie itagain to the bumper. And you guessed it down went the back of the car. Imagine the weight of a trash can mostly filled with old type weighs in around 1200 pounds."
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10.00 USD
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Hulme, Kathryn Arab Interlude
Philadelphia, PA MacRae Smith Company 1930 1st Edition; 1st Printing Hardcover Very Good+ Illustrated by Helene Vogt
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning fading to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. "The writer Kathryn Hulme made significant contributions to the humanitarian efforts in Europe after World War II as an administrator with the United Nations Relief and Refugee Agency (UNRRA) ; she wrote a number of books exploring life during and after the war, including The Wild Place (1953). While she was working with displaced persons in Europe, Hulme met Marie-Louise Habets, who would later become Hulme’s inspiration for The Nun’s Story (1956) , a fictionalization of the former nun’s life. "
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30.00 USD
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James, Philip English Book Illustration 1800-1900
London, England King Penguin Books 1947 1st Edition; 1st Printing Hardcover Very Good
B&W and Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing and bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is spotting / foxing to the top end foredges of the text block. The endpapers have several spots of foxing / spotting. "A work on illustrated books, if it is itself to be illustrated, suffers one serious disadvantage. The original graphic processes - etching, wood-engraving, lithography and the rest - must inevitably lose some of their individual quality owing to the effect of photographic reproduction."
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Kahoe and Company The First Book Of Moses Called Genesis (King James Version)
Yellow Springs, OH Kahoe and Company 1929 Limited Edition Hardcover Very Good+ Illustrated by Kahoe and Company
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. Limited to 950 copies, this being number 499. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The linen spine has noticeable ground-in dirt and rubbing, along with some spots of foxing. The corners and spine ends of the book covers have some light, but noticeable bumping and rubbing and there is one tiny spot of tearing / fraying. The text pages are clean and bright. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts. "Ernest Morgan and Walter Kahoe were students who worked part-time in the college print shop. Urged on by ingenuity, an aversion to waste, and a propensity for hard work, the two created bookplates from recycled scrap material and launched what was to come to be known as The Antioch Bookplate Company (ABC) in 1926. Bookplates had their origin in the 15th century, and served the purpose of identifying ownership of a book. Many bookplates went beyond the basic function of reminding the borrower to whom the book belonged and served as a decorative label with the identifying crest or armorial devices of its owner. Often bookplates were embellished with artistry or clever poetry designed to warn the borrower to treat the book with care and return it to its rightful owner. Ernest Morgan and Walter Kahoe had become interested in fine printing while interning with the famous printing house of W. E. Rudge in New York, and found bookplates to be an alternative way to start out in the printing business. Beginning with artwork done by students at the college and scrap material, it seemed to be an enterprising way to make a living. "
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Lanston Monotype Company A Selection of Type
Philadelphia, PA Lanston Monotype Company 1960 Trade Edition Other Very Good+
This is a soft cover binder (with cardstock covers) and held with two screws. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The corners of the covers have some light bumping. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. This is an advertising handbook from the Langston Monotype Company displaying all the various styles of type the company had. "Lanston Monotype Company was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the end of the nineteenth century by Tolbert Lanston. In 1887 he received his first patent for a mechanical typesetting device. The current incarnation as the "Lanston Type Co." is a division of P22 type foundry."
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30.00 USD
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Loring, Rosamond B. (Bowditch) (edited by Philip Hofer) Decorated Book Papers
Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press 1952 2nd Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Duo-tone illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some light edge wear, rubbing and nicking to the spine ends and corners. There is some beginning darking / toning to the spine as well. "Rosamond B. Loring was an unsurpassed craftsman. Her marble and paste decorated book papers were sought after by the Merrymount Press, the Club of Odd Volumes, and other publishers concerned with fine bookmaking. She was also a distinguished and original collector in her field."
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25.00 USD
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Studley, Vance The Art & Craft Of Handmade Paper
New York Van Nostrand Reinhold Company 1977 1st Edition; 1st Printing Paperback Near Fine
B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. "Papermaking is an artistic craft of great antiquity, and at the same time, a highly mechanized modern industry. The division between craft and industry is not so wide, however, as might at first be imagined."
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West, Levon Making an Etching
London, England The Studio Ltd. 1932 1st Edition; 1st Printing Hardcover Very Good+
B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers. The front cover has some toning. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, though there is some light toning to the edges of the pages. Included are black and white illustrations along with some very striking black and white photographs. "Etching is simply a process of printing in intaglio. That is, instead of a method of taking an impression on paper from a series of raised lines, etching is a form of engraving in which lines are eaten into a flat surface, these depressions being filled with ink then transferred to paper under pressure."
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65.00 USD
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