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PRELUM TO ALBION, A HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HAND PRESS FROM GUTENBERG TO MORRIS.
Burke, Jackson

   

- San Francisco : Privately printed 1940
- small 8vo.
- cloth-backed boards, paper spine label.
- (iv), 24, (2) pages.
- Order Nr. 19669
- Price: $ 100.00 [SALE PRICE: $ 80.00]



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First edition, limited to 250 copies printed by hand at the press of Marie Louise and Jackson Burke. With a number of illustrations of old printing presses. Well preserved copy.

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MARIANNE MOORE AT THE DIAL COMMISSIONS AN ARTICLE ON THE ...
by Kroll, Ernest (editor)

Limited to 100 numbered copies. Design based on the Japanese flutter-book. Six letters from Marianne Moore to Ralph Block concerning an article in The Dial (January 1927), concerning a forthcoming Dial article discounting motion pictures as an art form to which Moore sought a reply. Moore (1887-1972) was an American Modernist poet and writer who served as editor of The Dial, a literary and cultural journal, from 1925 to 1929. Block (1889-1974) was an American film producer and screenwriter, president of the Screen Actors Guild, 1934-5. Foreword by the editor. Text of the letters and the article included. Notes and colophon. With Addendum loosely inserted thanking the Moore estate for permission to reprint the unpublished letters.




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