ANGELS AND EARTHLY CREATURES.
by Wylie, Elinor
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Kinzers, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
(Printed and bound by The Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass. for) Alfred A. Knopf, New York and London: 1929., 1929 pp. xi, 63, (1) [Check List of Writings of Elinor Wylie] + Portrait Frontis. Printed on Oland [Swedish] hand made paper. Uncut. Set in the Linotype in Granjon by George W. Jones. Remnants of glue from bookplate on first fly leaf. Very slight age staining. Tall 8vo. 225mm. Original full cloth binding. Original paper spine label. Small nick on front board. First Edition of only two hundred copies (of which one hundred ninety are for sale). Number 101 of only 190 copies. This is Elinor Wylie's last book of poems selected by her for publication on the evening of December 15, 1928, the day prior to her death. It is printed precisely according to her own arrangement without any necessity for the exercise of literary executorship. W33 0.0. 1st Edition.. Hardcover.
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- Bookseller
- THE FAMILY ALBUM (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 497VE1
- Title
- ANGELS AND EARTHLY CREATURES.
- Author
- Wylie, Elinor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Publisher
- (Printed and bound by The Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass. for) Alfred A. Knopf, New York and London: 1929.
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- FINE PRESS; POETRY; POEMS; ELINOR WYLIE; ANGELS AND EARTHLY CREATURES; LIMITED EDITION; FIRST PLIMPTON PRESS
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- FINE PRESS;
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THE FAMILY ALBUM
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Kinzers, Pennsylvania
About THE FAMILY ALBUM
Ron Lieberman, has been an antiquarian bookseller, rare book appraiser, and library consultant for Fifty years. His firm, The Family Album, has issued a series of exceptional catalogs and bibliographic references in a variety of fields, including: Incunabula; Pennsylvania-Americana; German-Americana; Fine Book Bindings; Early Photographica; Printing History & Typography; Classics from the Great Scholar / Printers; Etc. He was the instructor for a series of valuable workshops and courses in the history, taste, and technique of book collecting. He frequently lectures before professional groups of librarians and archivists on: the book trade; collection and building security; disaster preparedness; appraisals; and preservation, conservation, and binding. He has also often appeared on radio and television popularizing the pleasant hobby of antique book collecting. His expert opinion on the book collecting market; values of archives and manuscripts; collection preservation & security; historic photographs; and the value of rare books has been sought by sources as diverse as: the Historical & Museum Commission of PA; the PA State Library; the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian Institution; the FBI; American Bible Society; Money Magazine; Kipplinger Magazine; Conservation Centers; Warmans Antique Price Guides; U.S.A. Today; as well as Universities, Colleges, and Historical Societies throughout the United States. As one of the organizers of the World Library Fund, Mr. Lieberman provides professional analyses of library collections, and helps plan library development for public and private institutions in the United States and abroad. He was a Member of the Board of Governors of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (A.B.A.A.), and Chairman of the A.B.A.A. Security Committee. He was a long-time regular member of the Security Committee of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) of the American Library Association (ALA); and was the Past President of the Middle Atlantic Chapter, A.B.A.A. Mr. Lieberman was also, for many years, a consulting editor and contributor to the Haworth Press journal: "College & Undergraduate Libraries" American Library Association (ALA); + ACRL/RBMS [For 35 Continuous Years] // PA Library Association (PLA) // Bibliographical Society of America // Middle Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) // Society for the History of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing (SHARP) // Philobiblon Club // Etc. Etc.
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