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AMERICAN CHAP-BOOK, I,1
Bradley, Will

- Jersey City : American Type Founders Co. 1904 - 12mo. - printed paper-covered boards, paper cover label. - 16 pages. - Order Nr. 116223 - Price: $ 125.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 100.00]

Contains "Eighteenth-Century Chap-Books and Broadsides" by Bradley. (Huntington Exhibition no.36). Bradley was hired by the ATF to design ornaments and figures. He did a total of 12 issues of the American Chap-Book. Lacks the separately issued supplement. The hardbound version of these chapbooks were sold at a premium. Cracked along back hinge and wear at spine ends.

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PSHAW! 1975 - 2005 by Butler, Frances and Alastair Johnston 100 copies letterpress on Hahnemühle paper. The paper is in three colors. Far more than a simple bibliography, there are eight pochoir plates by Frances Butler and 28 tipped-in facsimiles and recreations of Poltroon ephemera.