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UPDIKE: AMERICAN PRINTER, AND HIS MERRYMOUNT PRESS. Notes on the Press and its Work by Daniel Berkeley Updike. With a Gathering of Essays by Stanley Morison, Gregg Anderson, T.M. Cleland, M.A. De Wolfe Howe, George Parker Winship, Rudolph Ruzicka, David T. Pottinger, Carl P. Rollins. And a Gallery of Merrymount Title-pages and Types
by Updike, Daniel Berkeley and others
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Roosevelt, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. pp: 156, (44) illustrations of type-pages and types printed in black and orange, portrait on text stock. Bound in blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Original dust jacket. 9.5" x 6
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- Bookseller
- R & A Petrilla
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 040262
- Title
- UPDIKE: AMERICAN PRINTER, AND HIS MERRYMOUNT PRESS. Notes on the Press and its Work by Daniel Berkeley Updike. With a Gathering of Essays by Stanley Morison, Gregg Anderson, T.M. Cleland, M.A. De Wolfe Howe, George Parker Winship, Rudolph Ruzicka, David T. Pottinger, Carl P. Rollins. And a Gallery of Merrymount Title-pages and Types
- Author
- Updike, Daniel Berkeley and others
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- American Institute of Graphic Arts
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- printing history; typography; book design; daniel berkeley updike
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Terms of Sale
R & A Petrilla
Orders are packed and shipped from our business offices in the village of Roosevelt, New Jersey, USA . Packages are dispatched as quickly and economically as we can manage, via the shipping method that you select
All items are guaranteed to be as described. Any item may be returned within ten (10) days of receipt if found to be other than as described. Please give us advance notice of any return. A returned item must reach us in the same condition as when we shipped it. Original binding, text block, bookplates and any inserted material must be intact.
About the Seller
R & A Petrilla
Biblio member since 2004
Roosevelt, New Jersey
About R & A Petrilla
Established 1970, we are generalist antiquarian booksellers. We specialize in old and unusual books, manuscripts, and ephemera. We no longer sell at book fairs. Please see the catalogs on our website, or browse our stock for your interests. We are grateful for your orders. Thank you. -- Bob & Alison Petrilla Professional affiliations: American Antiquarian Society, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Library Company of Philadelphia, Philobiblon Club.
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