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JOHN CARTER, THE TASTE & TECHNIQUE OF A BOOKMAN
Dickinson, Donald C.
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First edition. Preface by Sebastian Carter. Throughout his professional career, John Carter, 1905-1975, was recognized as one of the most important figures in the Anglo-American book world. He was known as an imaginative book dealer, a creative bibliographer and a stylish and thoughtful writer. In 1934, after working for several years in the London book trade, he achieved instant fame, along with his co-author Graham Pollard, for An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets, a brilliant piece of detective work that exposed Thomas J. Wise.
Carter quickly built up a circle of friends, including Frederich Melcher, the editor of Publishers' Weekly and Elmer Adler, the editor of The Colophon. With those useful connections, he was able to publish over a dozen articles on bibliography and the rare book trade before he was thirty years old. Critics agreed that Carter's writing was characterized by precision, elegance and wit. Among his best known publications were Taste & Technique of Book Collecting and his popular glossary, ABC for Book Collectors. He was, above all, an articulate spokesman for the pleasures and challenges of book collecting. Contains a full checklist of John Carter's publications. Well-illustrated. This work will be appreciated by all bibliophiles who are interested in 20th century bibliophilia.
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PRAISE BASTED IN.
by Kaufman, Margaret
Limited to 100 copies, signed by all the participants. A poem by Margaret Kaufman that is a sequel to "Aunt Sallie's Lament" and creates a friendship quilt in celebration of her seventy-fifth birthday. It has nine squares from family and friends, each with its own greeting card and Sallie's comments. Each of the greeting cards was handwritten by a different woman and then printed. The designs were laser printed and some were hand colored. The title is stitched in with lavender crochet thread, and Sallie's verses are printed in Trump Mediaeval. The pages create a changing quilt pattern accumulating the names of the quilters and are made of papers from Barcham Green, Richard Langdell, MacGregor-Vinzani, Fabriano, Rives, and Mohawk Superfine. Many of the papers have patterns that are made up from a variety of printers' flowers plus linocuts for the appliqued designs. The cover is quilted with patterned cottons. The inside of the front cover of the box contains a silk flower bouquet. The boxes were made by Judi Conant and Mary Richardson. Includes the colophon in an eight page pamphlet with a cover using an embossed quilt card design by Lisa McMasters for Stone Ginger Press.
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