Buy this book on-line Rumble, Walker : THE SWIFTS: PRINTERS IN THE AGE OF TYPESETTING RACESUniversity of Virginia Press, 2003 ISBN 9780813921617
A crisp clean first edition/publishing, no markings throughout, NOT an ex- l ib. In a lively and colorful manner, Walker Rumble captures the excitement and suspense of typesetting races and the men and women who participated in the m. In doing so, he recovers a little-known and fascinating corner of Americ an life. (Michael Winship, University of Texas, Austin, author of American Literary Publishing in the Mid- Nineteenth Century ) [Walker Rumble] uses shop-floor savvy and a doctoral background in history to conjure a vivid lost world of irreverent, often hard-drinking Swifts who composed fast and died young, lead dust and tuberculosis getting many of t hem before 40. (Chronicle of Higher Education ) The Swifts makes a notable contribution to the narrow slice of nineteenth-c entury American history on which Rumble focuses.... It is a model of clarit y and inclusion. (Henry Petroski, author of The Evolution of Useful Thingsa nd The Pencil ) About the Author Walker Rumble is the editor and publisher of Oat City Press in East Providence, Rhode Island. The author of numerous articles on the history of printing, Rumble holds a doctorate in American history and has worked as a compositor and type manager., As New Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Rumble, Walker : THE SWIFTS: PRINTERS IN THE AGE OF TYPESETTING RACES. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri rari, out of print books, collectables, out-of-print books and first editions. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |