B. R. : America's Typographic Playboy
by Rollins, Carl Purington
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket; Glassine jacket tattered.
- Seller
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Selkirk, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: The Georgian Press. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Glassine jacket tattered.. 1927. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Printed by Richard W. Ellis in an edition of 500 numbered copies, of which this is confusingly hand-enumerated as #558 on the colophon page. Green illustrated boards with printed wraparound paper label on spine. Glassine jacket. Editor's note by H. J. D. An appreciation of legendary book designer, printer, typographer Bruce Rogers. Illustrations. Pages unopened. This copy lacks the prospectus. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 13 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47475
- Title
- B. R. : America's Typographic Playboy
- Author
- Rollins, Carl Purington
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket; Glassine jacket tattered.
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Georgian Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1927
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- PRINTERS, BRUCE Rogers, Book Designers, BOOKS ABOUT Books
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Terms of Sale
Old Saratoga Books
We are happy to provide a refund within thirty days of the customer's receipt of any book(s) upon return of the book(s) to our shop.
About the Seller
Old Saratoga Books
Biblio member since 2005
Selkirk, New York
About Old Saratoga Books
Old Saratoga Books owners Dan and Rachel Jagareski have been selling books since 1996. After running an open shop for twenty years in the historic village of Schuylerville we now sell books online and at book fairs. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA). Our specialties include books about history, science, cooking, children's books, and the arts. Rachel is a graduate of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar and has attended Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Glossary
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...