Morison Stanley John Carter (9 results)

SOFTCOVER. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to in colour printed stiff card covers, (designed by Reynolds Stone), 64pp text with facsimiles (some colour), plus 14pp plates on glossy art paper at rear. . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked and possibly unread copy (hint of tanning to spine). An excellent copy ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarter parchment-paper gilt with Cockerell marbled-paper sides, large 8vo., (vi), 31, (1) pages. One of 400 copies printed at the Black Vine Press. Prospectus laid in. Bookplate, an attractive, very good copy with light wear, in archival mylar.

First edition, first printing. One of 400 copies printed at the Black Vine Press by Harold Seeger and Albert Sperisen. Gilt-lettered white parchment-backed beige, grey, red and tan patterned boards; in plain white dust jacket. Fine, as-new! Octavo. 32 pages. First printing of a paper read before the Art Workers Guild in London by Stanley Morison (1889-1967), one of the leading experts of the twentieth century on typography. Type New Times Roman linotype. An exceptionally nice copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Limited to 500 copies for private distribution, printers 'compliments' slip laid in, printed for Morison's 60th birthday, gey paper covered boards worn, spine faded and paper split up spine, contents bright unmarked, 46pp, G+/--. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Marbled paper over boards, backed in gilt-lettered white paper; 8vo; [8], 32, [1]. Limited Edition of 400 Copies, Printed at The Black Vine Press.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket as issued. 1st Edition. Precursor to the 'Printing and the Mind of Man' exhibition with books borrowed from Ian Fleming's collection (24 items) and John Maynard Keynes (25 items) and 93 other individuals and institutions all listed. In all 641 items. 136pp. Printed on Basingwerk Parchment. The exhibition closed within ten days of opening because of the outbreak of World War II. This is the first printing with the Reynolds Stone wood engraving to the top cover and the legend 'Complimentary Copy' printed to the top right hand corner, indicating that it is one of a short run of copies printed for distribution to lenders and others who assisted with the exhibition. This copy was owned by Arthur Tillotson of Cambridge University Library whose assistance in the preparation of the exhibition is credited in the list of acknowledgments on page viii at the conclusion of which it is noted: 'As the catalogue goes to press, it has been reluctantly decided to close the Exhibition, owing to the increased danger of damage from air-raids.' Tillotson's inked signature is on the front cover. In the subsequent reprint of July the circumstances obtaining at the time are described as follows: 'As this catalogue was about to go to press, a sudden change in the war situation made it appear advisable to close the Exhibition when it had been opened only ten days. The catalogue was printed off, nevertheless, so that copies might be sent to all who had helped and others be available for sale. The demand proved greater than had been expected and this reprint was put in hand in which a few errors and oversights have been made good.' Minor wear to the original blue wrappers otherwise a firm, clean copy. Both printings are uncommon in any condition. This first printing in the 'Complimentary Copy' state is particularly scarce. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Grey paper-covered boards printed in red, small 8vo., xviii, (1), 45, (2) pages. Of 500 copies privately printed for Morison's 60th birthday, this is one of "only a few copies" in the first state with the four word dedication. (Appleton 180). Compliments slip tipped onto the front flyleaf. Laid in is the four-page prospectus on Milbourn handmade paper, with another compliments slip inserted. Light wear and moderate toning to the spine, else a very good copy of a scarce book.…

Erratum Slip 9 x 3.75 cms printed on card. 25 copies only of this Erratum Slip were printed. With pencil note on accompanying card by Brooke Crutchley explaining 'Erratum slip inserted in copies of book or pamphlet (JWC's Handlist?) placed before each person at luncheon in Trinity Hall after ceremony at which SM received his honorary D.Litt'. The Erratum was something of an in-joke and reads in part 'For Mr Morison, read Dr Morison, passim. In a letter of acknowledgement to Crutchley, Morison wrote 'Don't, however, press the joke too far and have me addressed, regularly, as "Dr". There is a matter of logic here; the point of refusing a knighthood was to refuse a title. You will find somewhere in your office a standing order . in 1923 to the effect that I was not to be called either Mr or Esq'. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.…

[1] + 23pp., foolscap 8vo. On 24 leaves attached in one corner by a metal stud. The title page carries the reference TM144D, and states that the producer was Cleverdon, and gives times of transmission, rehearsal and recording, with 'R.P. REF. NO.' and the details of the secretary who typed out the document. The piece was narrated by Barker, with the 'Speakers' are named as Burns, Carter, Crook, Crutchley, Meynell, Pollard, the Stones and Warde. This document, apparently unpublished, is the official transcript of an extremely entertaining and reavealing programme, filled with valuable reminiscences, of which the following gives a taster: '14. JANET STONE: (TAPE) | He used to talk about his extraordinary youth, his upbringing - that was fantastic. His mother must have been remarkable, becauses there he was, totally working class youth, with a father who, I think, physically resembled him, but he despised from the very bottom of his heart, who was a drunk, gin drunk. And the stories of how he used to come home dead drunk and how Morison put him to bed - the anguish of it all, and then finally how he had the gruelling business of going round to identify him in the Salvation Army home when he died. And how his mtoher kept this little shop, and how she held them together, kept them going. | 15. BARKER: | Morison also talked to Graham Pollard, the bibliographer, who shared his early political views. | 16. GRAHAM POLLARD: (TAPE) | He told me over many dinner tables, and over the first opening of oysters on every 1st of September at Whitstable, a great deal of the history of his life. Mrs. Morison, his mother, was a great adherent of Thomas Paine, and the young Morison was brought up very much in a dogmatic free thought atmosphere. After he left school, he went to work for the British and Foreign Bible Society as a clerk. In his spare time he, to use his own phrase, hung round the Jesuits in Farm Street, and they taught him Latin, and in due course he joined the Roman Church.'.…