printing mind man descriptive catalogue de carter john percy muir editors (5 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. Tall quarto. B&W illustrations. Condition: DJ chipped & soiled with several tears and a portion of the rear panel torn away; light wear to cloth binding; minor soiling to top edge of book block; else very good in fair DJ. Pages: xxxiv, 280.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First Edition. Dark rust cloth, lettered in gold foil. Very slight soiling at bottom text block corner, essentially as issued. Dust jacket slightly age-toned along edges and spine panel, with slight soiling and a dime-sized spot along upper rear joint, well preserved in new archival mylar. xxxiv,280 pp., illus. Firm binding, clean and unmarked interior. Stated "First Edition." Remains probably the most important exhibition ever assembled on the history of printing. Exceptional, a collector-grade copy with only the slightest of defects. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : good. First edition. Original red cloth, quarto, (xxxiv), 1 fl, 280 pp. Illustrated. Edges spotted, some staining to covers, endpapers and jacket from old-style jacket protector, else very good Annotated catalogue of 424 books that changed the world.

Pp.[xxxiv].280, dj sl. worn edges, end of front endpaper with fold marks, book in very good condition. Illustrated throughout and with the fine double-page title printed in red and white (by Reynolds Stone). Note: Barbara Kaye (Muir), Percy Muir's widow, purchased this copy at auction (Bloomsbury) and sold it to me after exhibiting it at the Cafe Royal in 1996. She added a pencil note to the front endpaper: "Presentation copy from co-editor [John Carter] to John Rayner. With cutting of review of book by Head Master of Eton Dr Robert Birley". John Rayner's tiny bookplate can be found inside front cover. Two enclosed Prospectuses, leaflets, 4pp., on the front of one which John Carter has added "John Rayner with the compliments of the author of the blurb [i.e. Carter] | 21 Mch 67". He has added the phrase "in depth" to "descriptions of books" on [p.2], excising "full" before "descriptions", and added the phrase "and printed in red" after the printed statement , "double-spread title page engraved by Reynolds Stone", concluding the blurb.

Karl Pressler. München. 1983. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Publishers cloth with dustjacket. 32 x 22 cm. 280 pp. Very good condition, dustjacket with tape on the inside of dustjacket on the top and bottom of spine.