The Last Letter: A Story of the Museum Press
by Rogers, Bruce
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Locust Valley: The Four Winds Press, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. One of 75 copies printed by Henry Schniewind. Marbled paper boards over red morocco spine, lettered in gilt. Presents a hitherto unpublished letter from 1948 from Bruce Rogers to Winifred Howe, secretary to his good friend Henry Watson Kent of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, founder of the Museum Press (and primary sponsor of BR's design of Centaur type, first used at the Museum Press). Slightly rubbed at the lower corners, else a fine copy. Laid in is a prospectus for a later Four Winds book and a Christmas greeting from the Museum Press dated 1926, printed in Centaur and Arrighi types.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Triolet Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1096
- Title
- The Last Letter: A Story of the Museum Press
- Author
- Rogers, Bruce
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Four Winds Press
- Place of Publication
- Locust Valley
- Date Published
- 1975
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Triolet Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2020
Los Angeles, California
About Triolet Rare Books, ABAA
Triolet Rare Books, member ABAA/ILAB, specializes in twentieth century art and literature with a focus on modernism, livres d'artistes, poetry, and the avant-garde.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...