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Lexington, Va.: Journalism Laboratory Press, Washington and Lee University, [printed by C. Harold Lauck], 1938. 27 pages. Original light blue cloth with black spine lettering. [21.8 cm.] Near fine in original unprinted dust jacket (a bit tanned, especially on spine panel and with a small chip and a few tiny closed tears). FIRST EDITION. One of 200 copies in boards (there were also 600 copies in wraps). A keepsake prepared for members of the National Graphic Arts Education Association and friends of Graphic Arts Education on the occasion of the Seventeenth Annual Conference on Printing Education in Washington, D.C. Foreword by Fred J. Hartman. Harry Lawrence Gage (1887-1982) was vice president of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company, a president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, a representative of industry to the Graphic Arts Education Association, professor of graphic arts at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and a lecturer in graphic arts at the Pratt Institute.�

[Winston-Salem]: Red Maple Press, [1998]. Unpaginated. [80] pages, mostly comprised of full-page color photographs. Original blue-green cloth. Oblong: 21 x 25.8 cm. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER on the front free endpaper and additionally signed by him on the title page. An attractive series of photographs depicting the swamps, forests, and waterways of eastern North Carolina, interspersed with a few pages of prose by the photographer discussing his exploration of the region and his vision for its future. Introduction by J. Merrill Lynch.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1948]. 154 pages. Numerous black & white photographs printed with the text; maps on endpapers. Original cloth. [24 cm.] A near fine copy in a very good or better dust jacket. Book has slightest rubbing to spine ends and minor dust soil to top edge. Spine panel of dust jacket is a little sunned and shows tiny (half centimeter) chips at ends, not affecting lettering. Else a bright, attractive copy. FIRST EDITION. A survey of South African society, including much on traditional Zulu culture. The author was an Italian explorer, who wrote numerous books on sub-Saharan Africa and made documentary films of the region.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1945. xiv, 266 pages, plus frontispiece and folding map at rear. Original cloth. [24.1 cm.] About very good in good only dust jacket. Cloth shows light traces of foxing at head of spine and along top edges of boards, and some minor rubbing to spine ends. Occasional and very light pencil marks in the margins, interior otherwise clean. Jacket has a few small chips, not affecting lettering, including a dime size chip to the base of the spine panel, and some tears with internal tape repairs. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY SOUTHERN HISTORIAN, FLETCHER M. GREEN, on the front free endpaper. The inscription indicates he used this copy for his review of the book in "The Emory University Quarterly." [Fletcher Melvin Green (1895-1978) taught at Emory University in the early 1930's before becoming a longtime member of the history faculty at the University of North Carolina (1936-1966) and publishing a number of scholarly books.] A significant… Read More

Reading: George Getz; Philadelphia: George & Byington, George W. Mentz & Son; printed by John C. Clark, Philadelphia, 1837. 4to. xi, [1], 143, [1] pages. Original quarter calf over paper covered boards, with later typescript paper spine label and new endpapers. [26 cm.] Good plus. A few stains to covers; scattered foxing. SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED AND IMPROVED. The first edition of this form book was issued in 1822, with the title beginning: "Precedents for the Use of Justices of the Peace ... " Later editions had the title: "Getz's Forms ... " George Getz (1789-1853) was also the proprietor of "The Berks and Schuylkill Journal," and served as the mayor of Reading from 1849 until his death. AI 44472.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1929. 274 pages, plus plates. Original dark green cloth. Endpaper maps. [23.9 cm.] Very good. Spine shows a just a hint of sun, foxing to margins of plates and facing pages, else a clean, solid copy. Attractive bookplate signed (in print) by Ainslee Hewett, dated 1913, on blank verso of front free endpaper. [Hewett (1880-1963), an artist from Louisville, Kentucky was active as a bookplate designer from 1909 to 1951. This bookplate bears the names of Edwin Vivian Thompson and Ida Bette Halbreath Thompson.] FIRST EDITION.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1971]. 312 pages, plus plates reproducing historic photographs. Original quarter cloth and boards. [23.4 cm.] Bookplate on front pastedown and name on front flyleaf, else a fine copy in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket has short tear (less than two centimeter), slight crease to front panel and some tiny evidence of soil. FIRST EDITION.

Lexington, Virginia: Journalism Laboratory Press, Washington and Lee University, 1937. 18 pages. Original beige cloth spine and brown paper covered boards with gilt cover lettering. [17.1 cm.] Near very good in original glassine dust jacket. Slight gouge to the head of front board at the joint, else a nice, clean copy. Spine just a trifle cocked; mild tanning to endpapers due to contact with dust jacket flaps. Fragile dust jacket is browned as expected, chipped at the head of the spine, and has a few small tears. FIRST EDITION. One of 250 copies. Designed and printed by Charles Harold Lauck, Sr. (1896-1975). A keepsake prepared for distribution to members of the Sixteenth Annual Conference on Printing Education, Chicago, June 28 - July 1, 1937. The preface, being "A Tribute" to Goudy, was written by J. Henry Holloway (pp. 7-8). Scarce.�

[New York]: Printed by the Press of the Woolly Whale, 1934. [4], 18 pages. Original printed blue paper covered boards. [15.1 cm.] Boards unevenly sun-faded, light tanning to endpapers, barely perceptible foxing to gutters of prelims. Good plus in original glassine dust jacket (a bit age-toned but showing little wear). FIRST SEPARATE EDITION, printed in celebration of Goudy's 69th birthday. This essay originally appeared in the Craftsmen Number of "The American Printer," Aug. 20, 1922. Goudy discusses the importance of design to the goal of introducing beauty into printing, the ways in which printing may aspire to be an art, and the relationship between typography and the texts it reproduces. "While printing, per se, is not an art . . . it is, nevertheless, a craft that widens and deepens the very foundations of literature & makes secure the world's inheritance of the knowledge of classic Greece and Rome . . . When printing utilizes the beauty of the means itself to the end… Read More