Irvin haas editor (9 resultados)

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

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Light brown cloth gilt with cover label, 8vo., xi, 15-95, (6) pages. Largely a continuation of Ransom's 1929 bibliography through 1935. One of 300 numbered copies designed and printed by Norman W. Forgue. From David Chambers collection, with a compliments card to Walter Tracy from James Shand and a TLS from Walter Tracy gifting the book to Chambers, loosely inserted. Quite the provenance. Light wear, spine sunned, else a very good copy.…

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Browning to the outside pages of the outside issues, except for the corners. ; Seven issues, Volume Two, Numbers 13-18 & 20. Beginning with Number 17, the editor is Irvin Haas and the publisher is Black Cat Press, Chicago. In a slip case which has a loose top edge. Set was originally 13-20, but 19 is missing.…

Cloth. Condición: Good Plus Condition. No Jacket. This is a nice copy of a nonfiction science book about the manufacture of plastic called the Handbook of Plastic Materials and Technology, copyright 1993, hard cover, no dust jacket, edited by Irvin I. Rubin with a foreword by Robert Forger, Thomas Haas and Robert Nunn. The book has usual library markings and was used as a reference book in the library, otherwise in good plus condition with firm binding and 1745 pages. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

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).…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. Fine beige linen-like cloth on boards with a pale orange paper title label affixed to front with white lettering and border and gilt lettering to spine. Book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of any major flaws or markings inside and out - book is Fine. Limited to 300 copies. Colophon page states this is "Copy X". Three page introduction by Will Ransom. Three page preface by Haas. List of Presses is thorough and includes a brief bio, place of business, and list of publications with dates of each. Includes descriptions of over 45 American Presses, including Acorn, Alianthus, Alibi, Appelicon, Archetype, Argus, Arrow, Ashlar, Bentley, Black Cat, Cassowary, Cheshire, Dale, English Bookshop, Fine Arts, Golden Dog, Gollifox, Harrison of Paris, Hawthorne House, Heritage, House of Books, June House, King's Arms, Maizeland, Maverick, Moorsfield, One Horse, Overbrook, Prairie, Press of Ward Ritchie, Primavera, Roblar, Rydal, Saunder's Studio, Sunnyside, Timothy, Tory, Watch Hill, and others. "The text of this volume has been set in Linotype Granjon and its Italic by the Dexter Composition Company. For display lines, a new Ludlow creation is used, Eden Light, designed by R. Hunter Middleton, in combination with the Cursive typeface. After proofs were read by Madeline Forgue, VIrginia Roe and Catherine Paver, three hundred copies were printed on Worthy Sterling Cream Wove. For the typographic design of this volume I, myself, must accept responsibility. I am grateful for the cooperation of the author, Irvin Haas, in its planning, and for the competent assistance of Rutherford B. Udell in its composition. Norman W. Forgue." Check our inventory for other Black Cat Press books.…

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.…

Wrappers. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A rare opportunity to purchase a complete run of this pioneering book collecting and book arts journal. Vol. I, consisting of (12) monthly issues (Mar. 1932-Mar. 1933, with one combined "Septober" 1932 issue), 64 pp., total, has been bound in blue buckram showing modest spotting/soiling to both covers, interior fully intact. Vols. II (2) through 4 unbound/loose, with cord bindings, in slightly reduced format. Vol. II consists of (8) issues, numbered 13-20, published from Apr. 1933 through July/Aug. 1938, #s 13-16 continuously paginated (52 pp. total), #s 17-20 16 pp. each. Vol. III consists of (11) issues, published from Sept. 1938 through Dec. 1939, most 16 pp. each, several 24 pp. The Packet ceased publication at that point but recommenced with Vol. 4 in Sept. 1945; this volume, height slightly reduced again, consists of (10) issues (including 9-10 combined) through June 1946, 24 pp., each, final issue 40 pp. All issues show only slight handling wear and a bit of toning. A virtual Who's Who of antiquarian bookselling, collecting, and bibliography during this era. Collector-grade, extremely scarce. Book.…