Origins Of the Book

Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, 1972. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. First edition, 1972. Quarto, cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 134 pp., illustrated (some in color), clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket, a bit of age-toning and light wear to some pages, soiling and age-toning to the dust jacket, minor… Read more about this item

Greenwich, Conn: New York Graphic Society, 1972. Egypt's contribution to the development of the book from papyrus to codex. Translated by Dorothy Jaeschke and Douglas Sharp. Pp. 136(last blank), illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, pictorial endpapers, bibliography, index; square 4to; white cloth, spine lettered in red, boards with decorative blind borders, foot of spine and bottom… Read more about this item

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1972. First America edition. Fine in d.j. and cardboard slipcase, d.j. has slightly faded edges.. First America edition. 135p. Illustrated. 4to. White cloth with red titles.

Greenwich CT: New York Graphic Society, 1972. First American edn. 4to, pp. 134. Bibliography. With 42 color, 68 black and white photographs, and 16 line drawings.A nice copy in slightly scuffed and torn dj.

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1972. First American edition, 4to, pp. 114, [1]; profusely illustrated throughout (including 42 illustrations in color); fine in the dustjacket and publisher's slipcase. A chronological study with sections on the Pharaonic Period, the Greco-Roman Period, the Coptic Book, and the book in Islamic Egypt.

1972. HUSSEIN, Mohamed A. Origins of the Book: From Papyrus to Codex. Original cloth, non-priceclipped d/j in plain cardboard slipcase. Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, Ltd., 1972. 135 pp. First American edition. Deals primarily with Egypt and the Islamic world. Illus. Slipcase age-toned, else very good or better.

Edition Leipzig, 1970-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Light shelf wear and tanning. Else clean and tight. DJ price clipped, tanned, VG. Light rubbing to sipcase, else tight.