Daniel Berkeley Updike the Merrymount Press (3 results)

Stapled wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Emily Strayer (illustrator). Light, short crease at the head corner of the front. ; Bookseller Rob's catalog of books related to the great typographer, designer, and printer Daniel Berkeley Updike and his prolific The Merrymount Press. 52 pp of entries, chronologically arranged. Entries are well-indexed. 9" x 6". One of a limited edition of 950 copies. The orange paper wraps were designed, set, and printed by Emily Strayer of Kutenai Press. Clean and Near Fine.; I-VI; Ink line drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 52 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. One of 150 copies for the Grolier Club, signed by Updike on colophon Tan paper board with red cloth spine Both boards have a wrinkle in the paper down the center of boards (not bent or broken), not transfering to the contents at all Contents near fine, no foxing. Very nice copy apart from the wrinkle in the boards.

Designed by Daniel Berkeley Updike at the Merrymount Press. (illustrator). Daniel Berkeley Updike designed this elegant trade edition of the Rubaiyat. Illustrated with twelve photo-etchings from drawings by Gilbert James and Edmund H. Garrett and with portrait of Edward Fitzgerald. Light binding wear, spine faded, gilt edge scuffed, front hinge cracked. Occasional spotting to text but generally clean. Very Good Publisher's olive cloth decorated in black and gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed.