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The Officina Bodoni; The Operation of a Hand-press during the first six years of its work
by Paris * New York. Editiones Officinae Bodoni
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Orig. basket weave cream cloth, gilt Bodoni logo front cover. Near fine in worn dust wrapper lacking small portion of lower spin
- Seller
-
ardsley, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Paris & New York: At The Sign of The Pegasus, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. basket weave cream cloth, gilt Bodoni logo front cover. Near fine in worn dust wrapper lacking small portion of lower spine. 80 pages. 30 x 21.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 229 of 500 of the English edition, on Lafuma Rag Paper in the original types of Giambattista Bodoni. Host of tipped-in specimen pages, plus twelve full page woodcuts by Franz Masereel printed recto only which illustrate the operations of the press. Officina Bodoni began operation in April 1925 at Montagnola di Lugano. List of All Book Printed On the Hand-Press. Offsetting from the flaps of the dust jacket onto the endpapers, slight lower corner bumps.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20898
- Title
- The Officina Bodoni; The Operation of a Hand-press during the first six years of its work
- Author
- Paris * New York. Editiones Officinae Bodoni
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Orig. basket weave cream cloth, gilt Bodoni logo front cover. Near fine in worn dust wrapper lacking small portion of lower spin
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- At The Sign of The Pegasus
- Place of Publication
- Paris & New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Private Press
- Bookseller catalogs
- Private Press; Books-on-Books; Calligraphy;
Terms of Sale
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
All books returnable 10 days of invoice date with prior notification
About the Seller
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
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ardsley, New York
About Royoung bookseller, Inc.
Member: Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America & International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- New
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- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
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- Jacket
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