Buy this book on-line Elmer Adler (Editor) et al : The New Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly. Volume II, Part Six (June 1949)Duschnes Crawford, Inc., New York, 1949
One of 2500 copies. Original publisher's beige paper-covered boards with a green color illustration on front cover of people reading books and wearing what appear to be Renaissance-era clothes. Decorative olive-yellow rectangle on back. Black lettering on beige spine. 8" x 10 3/4." Pages 107-189, complete. Black-and-white illustrations and occasional accents of color, complete. Advertisements for books, bookstores, and similar items and businesses in the back. One piece of Colophon ephemera laid in, a blank order form. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Slight rubbing to covers and spine. Some bumping to corners and parts of the edges. Boards have light age toning throughout. A Near Fine copy. Back colophon: "This Part Six of the Second 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 the Pynson Printers, Inc. at New York. The New Colophon was printed by E. L. Hildreth & Company at Brattleboro, Vermont for 2500 subscribers, June 1949." The New Colophon was a 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: "Another Man's Roses" by Frederick B. Adams, Jr., "On Belonging to Clubs" by Christopher Morley, Illustrated by Richard Erdoes, "On Making a Few Books" by Alfred A. Knopf, "Sadleir Sadleirized" by Simon Nowell-Smith, "The Typophiles" by Deoch Fulton, "The Last Word" by Wilmarth S. Lewis, "The First Famous Print" by A. Hyatt Mayor, "The Court of Appeals," "Marginalia," "Adventures in Typography," and "Notes on Contributors.". 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 II, Part Six (June 1949). 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 rares, atlases, libri antichi, incunabula and livres illustrées. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |