The Scholar in a Troubled World.
by PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE. LIPPMANN, Walter
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1932. An address delivered as the Phi Beta Kappa Oration at the Commencement exercises of Columbia University, May 31, 1932. One of 300 copies printed for private distribution. Set in Poliphilus and Blado types, with chapter divisions in Lombardic Capitals specially cut and cast by Frederic Goudy, and printed on handmade Litchfield paper. 12mo.,original gilt-speckled coloured paper covered boards a little rubbed at extremities, printed title label to upper cover, in a slightly toned and chipped glassine wrapper.|||
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- Bookseller
- SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8873
- Title
- The Scholar in a Troubled World.
- Author
- PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE. LIPPMANN, Walter
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Press of the Woolly Whale
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- Press of the Woolly Whale;Walter Lippmann;Frederic Goudy;Typography Book,Private Press
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- Glassine Wrapper
- A thin, partially transparent or translucent paper covering often used ...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...