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Elmer Adler (Editor) et al : The New Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly. Volume I, Part Two (April 1948)

Duschnes Crawford, Inc., New York, 1948

Limited Edition. One of 2500 copies. Original publisher's paper-covered boards with an all-over green, gray, and white pattern of books on front and back. Black lettering on green spine. 8" x 11." Pages 113-216, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, 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. Boards have light age toning throughout. A Near Fine copy. Back colophon: "This Part Two 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 April, 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: "Stephen Crane, War Correspondent" by Ames W. Williams, "Almost Books" by Frederick R. Goff, "Reflections on Rarity" by John Carter, "Silhouette of a Librarian" by George Boas, "Holbein's Old Testament Woodcuts" by Philip Hofer, "The Harmless Drudge" by Herman W. Liebert, "A Ghost from a Barber Shop" by Carl J. Weber, "The Court of Appeals," "A Scrapbook of Strays," and "Marginalia.". Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Near Fine (Near Fine). Binding: Hardcover

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