Schmulowitz nat esar evan (4 résultats)

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Very nice--mild toning around the edges else fine.

A Prefatory Fragment. 31 pp. Folio, original printed wrappers. First edition; one of 300 copies. Wrappers quite soiled and worn at edges; partially separated at spine fold. Contents fine. Ink gift inscription (signature illegible) on front free endpaper, 1957. Anecdota Scowah Number Two.

First edition (limited to 300 copies). Quarto-size paperback original in a sewn binding. Some light brown discolouring around the edges of the front wrapper, along with a small closed tear, and a small light 1" stain at the bottom fore-edge corner, otherwise very good in stitched wrappers as issued. Printed in two-colour ink, with a tipped on frontispiece portrait of the Drury Lane actor Joseph Miller (1684-1738) as "Teague". Miller became a figure associated with old-time joke books, so much that a "Joe Miller" became a term for a time-worn jest. Four of these Roxburghe Club keepsakes were edited by Schmulowitz (some to give to friends and other Roxburghe Club members): SCOWAH is a coined word for "Schumulowitz's Collection of Wit & Humour". …

Stiff Wraps. Etat : Near Fine. 30, [1] pp., 9 x 13.25", beige center-sewn wrappers, tipped-in color frontispiece plus one page of duotones. Title page and headings printed in red and black. Small bump to corners, edges lightly age-toned, overall near fine. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press 1957-1966, No. 585.…