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19987355New 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
1924009633Cambridge 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
1924252927Cambridge: 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.<br/> <br/> 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.<br/> <br/> Harvard University Press unknown
19240008442Cambridge: 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. <br/><br/>Copy no. 86 of only 260 copies thus. Three essays by this master printer with facsimiles Harvard University Press hardcover
1924268329Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1924. hardcover. near fine. Slim 8vo 70 pages khaki cloth backed boards. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1924. First Edition. Near Fine.<br/> <br/> 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.<br/> <br/> Harvard University Press unknown
192425679Cambridge: 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
1934599147Cambridge: 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
193442735CambridgeMA: Harvard University Press 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 279p octavo illustration a very good copy in brown cloth. Non-authorial inscription on the front fly leaf <br/><br/> Harvard University Press hardcover
1975368921975. MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE Daniel Berkeley. Notes on the Merrymount Press & Its Work.With a Bibliographical List of books printed at the Press 1893-1933 by Julian Pearce Smith to which has been added A Supplementary Bibliography of Books printed at the Press 1934-1949 by Daniel Berkeley Bianchi. Illus. Original cloth. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts 1975. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Fine. unknown
198052316Mt. Vernon NY: A. Colish Inc 1980. broadside 18 x 24 in. / 46 x 61 cm. Limited to 50 copies. A text excerpt from the 1962 Belknap Press/Harvard U. Press reprint of D. B. Updike's 1860-1941 founder of the Merrymount Press 1922 work "Printing Types: Their History Forms and Use." A "keepsake printed for The Second National Conference on Metal Typecasting & Design on the occasion of their visit to A. Colish Inc. Mount Vernon New York 1 July 1980." Printed in black with lavender rules at head and foot of text and inside a lavender border formed by a kind of ribbon design. A. Colish Inc unknown
1962270825United Kingdom: Harvard University Press 1962. Book. Good. hardback. hardback two volumes complete the third best edition octavos. A tightly bound set with clean and unmarked text but with foxing to the fore-edges and to the price clipped dust jackets. thus good only. A heavy set which may attract a request for additional postage if ordered from certain locations outside the United Kingdom. . Harvard University Press Hardcover
1962217227MCambridge MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1962. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Volume I 292 pages. 192 illustrations in text. Volume II 325 pages. 175 illustrations. Both volumes: Pages clean v/g condition. Red cloth gilt title on spines. Edges and corners very lightly worn and bumped. Yellow dust jackets with red titles. DJ's are price clipped. Dust jackets lighlty worn and soiled. VG/VG <br/> <br/> The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press hardcover
1937B8109London: Oxford University Press. 1937. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed. Pages tanned. Jackets lightly edge worn; Overall an excellent set; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xl292;xx326 pages; US imprint Harvard University Press Cambridge Massachusetts. A compilation of lectures on the fashion of letter design 1500-1800 . Oxford University Press hardcover
1962009808Cambridge Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1962 2 vols. 8vo 24 cm XLVI 292 pp. 192 plates; XIX 326 pp. plates 193-367. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket jackets slightly sunned and rubbed at extremities jacket of vol. 2 somewhat creased at head. Third edition first published 1922 at the Merrymount Press of Updike's monumental and enduring survey of Western printing types from the invention of printing to the early twentieth century. With a preface by Lawrence C. Wroth of the John Carter Brown Library. Volume I covers the invention of printing the development of the Latin alphabet casting and point systems and the types of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries surveyed country by country -- Germany the Netherlands and Belgium France Italy Spain and England -- together with discussions of Aldine italic early roman and black-letter traditions and German foundries; Volume II continues with Netherlandish Spanish English including Caslon Baskerville and other founders Italian and French types through the eighteenth century followed by studies of the Didot family Bodoni the nineteenth-century classical revival and English and American types from 1800 to 1844 concluding with chapters on industrial conditions of the printing trade censorship production rates and a chronological list of specimens notes and index. Extensively illustrated with 367 plates reproducing type specimens title-pages and typographic details the work combines historical narrative with detailed typographical analysis and remains a foundational reference for typographers book historians and students of printing. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press hardcover
1927ZZ6089Harvard University Press 1927. Top edges gilt. Some wear to corners and ends of spines. Robust packaging. Tracking is always added to USA orders. It can be added to other overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. 3rd impression. No ownership marks. No ownership marks. Binding sound text unmarked. Very Good/No dustwrapper. xxxii276 xix308pp. many illustrations. Harvard University Press Hardcover
1951006224Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press 1951. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Large Octavo. Large 8vo. Volume I xl 292 pp illus. Volume II xix i326 pp illus. Second Edition/Second Printing 1951. Price clipped. Small chipping along top edge dj with a few very small additional Vol. I and a very small chip to bottom edge spin Vol. II. Lightly age-toned text block else Pristine no wear. No markings tight binding clean white and bright. 6.75" x 8.5". Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In polyester protectors. Harvard University Press Hardcover
