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BOOKS AND PRINTING, A TREASURY FOR TYPOPHILES.
Bennett, Paul A.

- Cleveland and New York : World Publishing Co. (1951) - 8vo. - cloth, dust jacket. - (ii), xviii, 418, (2) pages. - Order Nr. 61683 - Price: $ 45.00

First edition. Illustrated. Essays by Wroth, Warde, Dwiggins, Rogers, Ransom, Pollard, Grabhorn, Morison, Gill, Goudy and others. Presentation on free endpaper "For my good friend, Lee Grove, in the fellowship of good book-making, warmest regards, Bill Targ, 1.3.52." Targ was the President of World Publishing and quite a bookman. With Grove's bookplate. Four page prospectus loosely inserted. Spine of jacket age darkened.

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