IN QUEST OF THE PERFECT BOOK: Reminiscences & Reflections of a Bookman by William Dana Orcutt - 1926

Little, Brown & Co., 1926. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Little, Brown & Co., 1926-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. . DJ is price-clipped and shows moderate wear, tear, chipping. Cover shows minor rubbing. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Dust jacket has small tear upper right front and upper right back. Onion skin covering title page is loose but included. First edition, first impression. No markings or writing in text. Illustrated.

Boston : Little, Brown, 1926.. First Edition. Hard Cover. 14], 316, [1] p., [51] leaves of plates : illus, (1 col.), facsims., ports. ; index. 23 cm. "First Impression of the Trade Edition." Stock# 42,907. Vg / mo dj.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1926. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket/No Dustjacket. Clean pages except for some age-toning to edges and endpapers; the gilt head edging shows a few tiny scratches; the binding is rather relaxed, showing stitches between signatures and with a long crack to the final free endpaper exposing netting, but remains overall secure. The full brown cloth hard cover has considerable dimming along spine, points of fraying at corners and spine ends, a bump to the top right rear causing some wrinkling to fabric and board, and surface wear to the heel edges, but remains strikingly attractive, with gilt titles and decoration at front and spine. [xi], 316pp. incl. index; color frontis + b/w illus. throughout.

Books for Libraries Press, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good.

Little, Brown & Co, 1926. hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 8x6x1. 1926; Boston; brown paper dust jacket with black titles; dust jacket contains chips and tears; dust jacket contains rubbing and shelf wear; dust jacket protected in mylar jacket; Interior is clean and unmarked; 8vo, 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall; 316 pages

Little, Brown, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. First impression of the first trade edition.Very Good or better: very light rubbing at the corners and spine ends, text block modestly toned, p.o. signature on the front free endpaper, binding tight and square.

Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown & Company, 1926. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x6x1. Third printing. Minor chips and minor tears to jacket edges, front jacket flap price-clipped. Bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1926 Hard Cover. 316 pp. Brown boards with gilt titles and decor, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece, black-and-white illustrations throughout. William Dana Orcutt (1870-1953) was an American book designer, typeface designer, historian, and author. William Dana Orcutt was an important book and typeface designer in Boston, an important printing and bookmaking center, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Orcutt graduated from Harvard University in 1892, and subsequently worked for John Wilson, proprietor of The University Press of Cambridge, Massachusetts (a forerunner of the Harvard University Press). Through his role at the University Press, Orcutt made contact with prominent authors such as Mary Baker Eddy, whose books he continued to publish throughout her… Read More

Little, Brown & Company, 1926-01-01. First edition. Hardbound. Good/No Dustjacket as issued. First impression of the trade edition, stated. Hardbound book in good+ condition particularly considering age of item. Bookplate of previous owner is placed on inside of front cover. Pages show edge toning and some foxing. Top edge of text block is gilt; gilt lettering on spine has faded, but gilt decoration and lettering on front board is still bright. Boards are brown cloth. There is wear to either end of spine; tail end shows a small split. Pages are securely bound and boards straight.