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New York: United Nations, 1953. iii, [1], 56 pages. Original printed wraps. [22.9 cm.] Very good. Moderate soiling of wraps. Evidence of a handful of pencil erasures, but interior otherwise clean. Revised edition, so stated, being the second edition, following the first of 1951.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1922 [i.e. 1923]. Two volumes. xxxii, 276 and xix, [1], 308 pages, plus numerous plates, some folding. Original black cloth with gilt spine lettering. [24.1 cm.] Cloth slightly faded and rubbed; minor wear to spine ends. Light dust soiling to fore-edges and small spot to fore-edge of vol. II; rather faint foxing to gutters, primarily near the front of vol. I and near the end of vol. II; still a very good set in plain paper covered slipcase (worn, chips to paper, and some cracks, but serviceable). Bookplate of Charles Harold Lauck, Sr. (1896-1975) on the front pastedown of each volume. [Lauck was the founder of the Journalism Laboratory Press at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, and its director from 1932 to 1962. The Press was noteworthy for its publication of limited-edition books and pamphlets concerning bibliography, printing history, and graphic arts education. In addition to his work at Washington and Lee, Lauck was an active member… Read More

New York: The American Institute of Graphic Arts, [printed by Peter Beilenson, Mount Vernon], 1947. 156 pages, plus [44] pages of facsimiles and specimens, being "A Gallery of Merrymount Title-Pages and Merrymount Types." Original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. [23.9 cm.] A near fine copy in very good dust jacket with tiny chip to head of front panel, several short, closed tears neatly repaired on verso with archival mending tissue, and sun-fading to spine panel. FIRST EDITION. “A collection of papers written by friends and colleagues about one of the few great printers of the first half of this century. Two of the papers about him were written during Updike's lifetime; four were written shortly after his death in 1941; two were written specially for the present book. The long preliminary essay is the printer's own story of his career.” – “An Editor's Summary,” p. 153. The contributors were Stanley Morison, Gregg Anderson, T.M.… Read More