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Janello, Amy. THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE.
New York Harry N. Abrams 1991 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 241 pages.
Pictorial with text. American magazines of the 19th and 20th centuries, with reproductions of covers, illustrations, and pages, along with photos of publishers, etc. About 575 illustrations with over 400 in color.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 52537

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(Kat Ran Press) SOME THIRTEEN BOOKS CAREFULLY DESIGNED: KAT RAN PRESS BOOK DESIGN.
(Cambridge, MA Kat Ran Press) n.d. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Thirteen examples of books designed by the Kat Ran Press. Illustrations, some in color.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 115060

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Kelly, Jerry. THE FIRST FLOWERING: BRUCE ROGERS AT THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, 1896-1912, WITH A CHECKLIST OF THE RIVERSIDE PRESS EDITIONS.
Boston Thomas G. Boss Fine Books 2008 5.75 x 8.75 inches cloth-backed paper covered boards, stamped in gilt with the Riverside Press logo. 95 pages
As Daniel Berkley Updike's successor, from 1896-1912, Bruce Rogers worked at Houghton Mifflin's Riverside Press. This history of Bruce Rogers' work while at the Riverside Press was taken directly from the archives of his letters. Included in this book is how Rogers came to produce the series called Riverside Press Editions, as well as other special and limited editions. These books were made with handmade paper and the finest ink available. This work includes a checklist of 102 books and broadsides Rogers designed for Houghton Mifflin and other publishers, including publication date and publication price, typeface, and edition size. Thirty-six color plates are printed in the final part of the book. Beautifully designed by Kelly and printed in a digital version of the Brimmer typeface. Edition of 500 of which 323 copies with this imprint were produced.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 100315

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(Kittredge, George Lyman) Thorpe, James A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE.
With an introduction by Hyder Edward Rollins. Cambridge Harvard University Press 1948 8vo. cloth, paper spine and cover label. 125 pages.
Bibliography of the publications of this noted Harvard professor and Shakespeare scholar. Paper spine label is chipped.
Price: $ 12.00 other currencies Order nr. 6715

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(Lakeside Press) DESIGN AND TYPOGRAPHY AT THE LAKESIDE PRESS
Chicago Lakeside Press n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers not paginated
Contains five subjects about design or typography with a couple of short paragraphs about each subject, together with the announcement that Walter L. Howe is the new Director of the Press's Department of Design and Topography. Edges lightly tanned.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 102313

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Lamb, Charles. NEW YEAR'S EVE.
New York William Edwin Rudge 1930 small 8vo. boards, paper cover label. (22) pages.
One of Lamb's best-known "Elia" essays, a lovely meditation on nostalgia and the passing of time.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 95226

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Lathem, Edward Connery and Elizabeth French Lathem (Editors) D.B.U. AND R.R.: SELECTED EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN DANIEL BERKELEY UPDIKE AND RUDOLPH RUZICKA, 1908-1941
New York American Printing History Association 1997 tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. vi, 181+(1) pages.
D.B.U and R.R. prints for the first time extracts from the important correspondence between these major figures of American graphic arts, revealing a little-known closeness between the Merrymount Press fine printer Updike and the artist Ruzicka. The two men collaborated on a number of important books, including Newark and the Grolier Club's Irving, as well the exquisite series of Merrymount annual keepsakes. Ruzicka also played a substantial advisory role in the writing of Updike's monumental Printing Types. This touching and candid thirty-three year correspondence is put in context by the Lathems' elucidating commentary. This work includes an index and two tipped-in facsimiles, as well as illustrations reproduced in the original colors. Printed by the Stinehour Press, in an edition of 500 copies.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 97458

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Lathem, Edward Connery and Elizabeth French Lathem (Editors) D.B.U. AND R.R., SELECTED EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN DANIEL BERKELEY UPDIKE AND RUDOLPH RUZICKA, 1908-1941
New York American Printing History Association n.d. (1997) tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. vi, 181+(1) pages.
First edition, limited to 500 copies printed at The Stinehour Press. This book contains extracts from the important correspondence between Updike and Ruzicka which reveals the closeness between them. They colloborated on many important books such as the Grolier Club's Newark. The book also shows that Ruzicka provided a great deal of advice and help in the writing of Updike's landmark book Printing Types. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 75992

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Lence, Karen V A HISTORY OF THE WESTERN BOOKS EXHIBITION; IF THEY'VE GOT TO FLAP, LET THEM FLAP SPLENDIDLY.
Los Angeles The Rounce & Coffin Club 1978 small 8vo. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards 94 (2) pages.
Printed by Richard J. Hoffman in an edition limited to 250 copies. A history of one of the most famous American regional book exhibits, the Western Books Exhibition, from its creation in 1939 into the 1970s. The basis for the book was the minute records, scrapbooks, publications and files of the Exhibition's sponsor, the Rounce & Coffin Club; interviews with Richard J. Hoffman, Muir Dawson, Grant Dahlstrom and other members were also part of the author's research. An important work on the artistry of bookmaking. Includes notes, list of jurors, catalogues and sources.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 62436

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Leslie, Robert REMINISCENCES OF THE GRAPHIC ARTS.
Rochester Press of the Good Mountain n.d. (circa 1973) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (30) pages.
The Fifth Frederic W. Goudy Lecture. Presentation from Leslie on half title to Herman Abromson. With ephemeral material loosely inserted.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 35436

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(Limited Editions Club) Meredith, George THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT
With a Preface by Sir Francis Meredith Meynell and Illustrations by Honore Guilbeau. Designed and Decorated by W.A. Dwiggins. New York The Limited Editions Club 1955 8vo. quarter leather over marbled boards, slipcase XIV, 314, (2) pages.
Limited to 1500 copies signed by Guilbeau. Minor wear along edge of slipcase. Bookplate on front pastedown.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 53888

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(Limited Editions Club) Tegner,Esaias FRITHIOF'S SAGA
Translated into English Verse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ... and the general Introduction by Bayard Taylor. Illustrated with drawings by Eric Palmquist. New York The Limited Editions Club 1953 small 4to. cloth-backed boards, slipcase.
Limited to 1500 copies signed by Palmquist. Printed in Stockholm by the Royal Printing House. Top of slipcase is missing.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 2987

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Loy, William E. (edited by Alastair M. Johnston and Stephen O. Saxe) NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN DESIGNERS AND ENGRAVERS OF TYPE.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2009 9 x 12 inches hardcover, dust jacket 164 pages
New technology, such as electrotyping, the pantograph and router, introduced in the middle of the nineteenth century, combined with the expansion of commerce as America moved westward, created a great outpouring of exuberantly ornamented typefaces. Though these "Victorian" faces have moved in and out of favor, many of them have great charm and usefulness. They were produced in conditions of a commercial free-for-all, even outright piracy, not unlike the "desktop font" boom of the 1990s. While many Victorian types have been revived by digital foundries, their sheer number has intimidated historians unable to establish their true origins.

In 1896 William E. Loy, a San Francisco printing equipment salesman and scholar, had the idea of writing a series of profiles of type designers. Loy took a long view of history, and realized that it was important to document the men in the background who created the nineteenth century's fanciful types, even as the furiously competing type foundries got the credit for introducing them to the printing trade. His work was serialized in The Inland Printer over the next three years and included biographies, photographs of the artists, and lists of the type they had designed or cut, which Loy had painstakingly compiled through correspondence with the type founders and other craftsmen. Unfortunately, due to the technical limitations of a monthly periodical, it was not possible to show the typefaces mentioned. Finally here is the work as Loy envisioned it, with over 800 illustrations of typefaces designed by the craftsmen he discusses.

Here, written by a man who knew many of the designers and engravers, is the behind-the-scenes story: biographies of men - artists, sportsmen, blacksmiths, soldiers, even a game warden - who were the creators of these innovative types. Loy traces their personal stories adding much incidental detail about the politics & business practices of the time and the innovations of each of these thirty men. Now, a century later, typographical historians Alastair Johnston and Stephen Saxe have realized Loy's vision, fully illustrated and annotated. This is one of the first reference books on nineteenth-century American type design, and as such is an important addition to typographical history.

William E. Loy (1847-1906) grew up in the Midwest and moved to California in 1874. He worked as a newspaperman, printer and printing equipment salesman. He was associated with Nelson Crocker Hawks at the Pacific Type Foundry in San Francisco, before branching out on his own. His vast typographical library formed the core of the Kemble Collection now at the California Historical Society.

Stephen O. Saxe is the author of American Iron Hand Presses (Oak Knoll & The British Library, 1995); he annotated the revised edition of Annenberg's Typefoundries of America and their Catalogs (Oak Knoll & The British Library, 2000). A graduate of Harvard and Yale, he was a stage and television scenic designer before he became interested in printing history. Alastair Johnston is the author of Alphabets to Order: the Literature of Nineteenth-Century Typefounders' Specimens (Oak Knoll & The British Library, 2000). A co-founder of Poltroon Press, he has taught at the University of California since 1979. He also teaches book arts in public elementary schools. He is currently writing a biography of Richard Austin, the English type cutter, and his son the wood-engraver.
Price: $ 59.95 other currencies Order nr. 96679

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(Malik-Verlag) Fraser, James and Steven Heller THE MALIK-VERLAG 1916-1947, BERLIN, PRAGUE, NEW YORK.
New York Goethe House (1984) tall 8vo. paper wrappers. 88 pages.
First edition. A fascinating exhibition catalogue which examines the history of this German publishing firm and shows examples of some of the work it produced. Well illustrated.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 28251

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McLean, Ruari VICTORIAN BOOK DESIGN & COLOUR PRINTING
N.P. University of California Press (1972) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 241 pages.
Second edition, U.S. printing. (S-K 5539 for binding reference). Enlarged and with 16 new color plates and other illustrations. First historically precise description of the process of color printing.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 19269

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(Merrymount Press) CENTURY MEMORIALS, 1943.
New York (Century Club) 1944 small 8vo. cloth 93+(1) pages
Printed for the Century Club by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Boston (Smith 957). Brief eulogies of club members who died in 1943, including Steven Vincent Benet, Pierpont Morgan, and Lt. Tom La Farge, whose cutter foundered in an ice storm off the coast of Newfoundland while returning from a "difficult and very valuable work in the North Atlantic area."
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 63627

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(Merrymount Press) Chace, Arnold Buffum (introduction) AN APPRECIATION, ELIZA GREENE CHACE, MARCH 2, 1851 - DECEMBER 9, 1924
Providence n.p. 1929 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. (x), 32, (4) pages
Limited to 100 copies, printed by D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press in Boston (Smith 702). A large portion of the recollection is written by Arnold Buffum Chace, Eliza's husband and widower, who also wrote the introduction. The last section is written by Margaret L. C. Rowland, Arnold and Eliza's daughter. Minor wear at extremities.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 101252

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(Merrymount Press) Eliot, Charles W. GREAT RICHES
New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. (1906) 12mo. red cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. (v), 38 pages
A collection of the wisdom of the former President of Harvard University. Composition and plates by D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press (Smith 240). Wear at extremities. Front endpaper signed by previous owners.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 101122

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(Merrymount Press) Gardner, Edmund G. (editor) PLATONICK DISCOURSE UPON LOVE BY PICO DELLA
London Grant Richards Ltd. (1914) 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, leather spine label. xxviii, 83, (3) pages
Designed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press in Boston (Smith 399). Part VII from "The Humanist's Library," edited by Lewis Einstein. With an introduction, notes to the introduction, and a bibliographical note. Most of leather spine label chipped away.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 101251

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(Merrymount Press) Grant, Robert OCCASIONAL VERSES 1873-1923
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1927 12mo. cloth (ii), xiii, 165 pages
An anthology printed by D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press (Smith 662). With a foreword. Former library copy. Minor wear at extremities.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 101116

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(Merrymount Press) Haraszti, Zoltan " MR. UPDIKE AND THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS ."
In More Books, the Bulletin of the Boston Public Library, Vol. X, No.5, May, 1935, small 4to., self paper wrappers. pp.157-173.
Illustrated. Small library stamp on front cover.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 18349

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(Merrymount Press) Higginson, Henry Lee ADDRESSES BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON ON THE OCCASION OF PRESENTING THE SOL DIERS' FIELD AND THE HARVARD UNION TO HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
Boston Merrymount Press 1902 12mo. cloth. (iv), 50 pages.
First edition. (Smith no.116). Two portraits. Name in ink in upper corner of free endpaper.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 26047

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(Merrymount Press) Hodges, George THE HAPPY FAMILY.
New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. (1906) 12mo. green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. (v), 40, (2) pages
Composition and electrotype plates by D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press in Boston (not in Smith). With sections of "The Business of being a Wife," "The Business of being a Mother," and "The Business of being a Father." An essay/speech. Minor rubbing at spine ends.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 101244

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(Merrymount Press) Huckel, Oliver PARISFAL
A Mystical Drama by Richard Wagner Retold in the Spirt of the Bayreuth Interpretation. New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 1903 12mo. red cloth stamped in blind and in gilt, top edge gilt. (ii), xviii, 70+(1) pages
Printed by D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press (Smith 166). With a foreword, and five black-and-white illustrations. Spine faded, minor wear at extremities.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 101115

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(Merrymount Press) Jefferson, Charles Edward THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW.
New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. (1907) 12mo. cloth, gilt stamped, top edge gilt, clear plastic dust jacket (ii), 60, (2) pages
Composition and electrotype plates by D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press in Boston (Smith 289). The Old Year section has the subtitle "The Art of Forgetting," while the New Year section has the subtitle "The Art of Reaching." An essay/speech. Spine and some edges lightly faded.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 101245

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