editor introduction will ransom (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No dust jacket. ; Copy number "xxx" of 300.

Hardcover. First edition, limited. Chicago: The Black Cat Press, 1935. 95, [3 - index] pages. Original tan buckram with gilt spine lettering and printed paper cover label. [24 cm.] Spine sun-darkened and with a few small spots and a little speckling, minor foxing to gutters of prelims; about very good. FIRST EDITION. One of 300 copies, this copy unnumbered and stamped "For Review Only" on the colophon. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER, Norman W. Forgue, on the front free endpaper. The inscription reads: "To J. L. Frazier, with the cordial regard of Norman W. Forgue." The recipient was Julius Leroy Frazier (1885-1966), who wrote and published "Modern Type Display" (1920) and "Type Lore: Popular Types of Today" (1925). Frazier also worked for a time as an associate editor at the Inland Printer Company. Norman W. Forgue (1904-1983) founded the Black Cat Press in 1932. He was responsible for the typographic design of the present volume and collaborated with the author in its compilation and production. The book is based on Will Ransom's "Private Presses & Their Books" (1929), which is here updated with books printed in the intervening years. The output of the Black Cat Press is included in the bibliography, although the limitation of the present work is curiously listed as 350 rather than 300 (see p. 45).

xxvi, 114, [8] pp. Untrimmed. 9" x6" Boards light soiled and blue markings in text [apparently used by Ransom for his Select Check List of Press Books]. A VG copy. Moss green papered boards with dark green cloth binding. Gilt title lettering stamped to spine and white on-lay with black title lettering to front board 1st Edition. INSCRIBED by the author to fellow bibliographer, Will Ransom. Signed.

Copy number '222' of an edition limited to 300 copies set in Linotype Granjon with Eden Light display lines designed by R. Hunter Middleton in combination with the Cursive typeface. Publisher's light brown cloth with inset printed label to the upper board and gilt lettering to the spine. Ex Libris book label 'Typographia' of J. Burke to front pastedown and small address label of the same to the rear pastedown. Octavo, pp. [blank] [i-viii] ix-xiv, 15-96 [Index, 97-100] [colophon] [9, blank]. A book in Very Good condition with slight wear to extremities.