Buy this book on-line Elmer Adler (Editor) et al : The New Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly. Volume I. Part One (January 1948)Duschnes Crawford, Inc., New York, 1948
Limited Edition. One of 2500 copies. Original publisher's paper-covered boards with an all-over brown, yellow, and white pattern of books on front and back. Black lettering on yellow spine. 8" x 11." Pages 5-107 pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations and one color print, complete. Advertisements for books, bookstores, and similar items and businesses in the back. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Slight rubbing to covers and spine. Slight wear to corners and edges. Moderate wear to head of spine. Boards have light age toning throughout. A Near Fine copy. Back colophon: "This Part One of the first volume of The New Colophon, published by Duschnes Crawford, Inc. at New York, continues the franchise of the original Colophon, established in 1928 and published by Pynson Printers, Inc., at New York. The New Colophon was printed by The Anthoensen Press of Portland, Maine, and distributed to twenty-five hundred subscribers in the month of January nineteen hundred and forty-eight." The New Colophon was a limited-edition, quarterly book collectors' periodical that was published from 1948-1950. It was the successor toThe Colophon which had been established in 1928 by Elmer Adler (1884-1962), the founder of Pynson Printers in New York City. The following are the features in this issue: "An Early Frost Broadside" by Lawrance Thompson, "A Puritan Bookshelf" by James D. Hart, "Elbert Hubbard and 'A Message to Garcia'" by Dard Hunter, "Drifting into a Print Collection" by Allen Evarts Foster, "Where There's a Will...." by Jacob Blanck, "Ten Years of Serigraphy" by Carl Zigrosser, With an Original Serigraph by Leonard Pytlak, "A Book is a Book is a Book" by Donald C. Gallup, "The Court of Appeals," "A Scrapbook of Strays", and "Marginalia.". Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Near Fine (Near Fine). Binding: Hardcover 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 Elmer Adler (Editor) et al : The New Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly. Volume I. Part One (January 1948). 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 livres anciens, out-of-print books, used books, rare books and libri rari. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |