Roby Wentz (59 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. Limited to 300 copies.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Very Good, internally clean, solid paper-covered stapled pamphlet including the 16 page check-list. Laid in is a folded sheet comprising a 4 page essay by Roby Wentz "Saul Marks, Printer 1905-1974.".

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG in wraps 8vo 19pp Printed for the Zamorano club by Grant Dahlstrom and Roby Wentz. Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall. Illustrated by B&w photos. (illustrator). Book.

SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Reading Copy. Vol. VII, No. 3. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Includes "The Book of Ptath" (novel) by A. E. van Vogt; "The Refugee" by Jane Rice; "The Patient" by E. M. Hull; "Fido" by Chester S. Geier; "Change" by Roby Wentz; "Clean-Up" by Cleve Cartmill. Readers' Departments: "Of Things Beyond-"; "-And Having Writ-".Illustrated by Kolliker, Kramer, Smith and Williams. Letter from Anthony Boucher. Covers lost with copy glued to front hinge and black to rear hinge; spine strip also a copy; a couple of pages creased before repairs were made and are unot completely unfoldable. Solid reading copy. Book. …

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Eleven Western Presses: An Account of How the First Printing Press Came to Each of the Eleven Western States. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1956, folio, (12 inches tall), 57pp, bibliography. Cloth and boards. VG. Printed for members at the 37th Annual Convention of the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen. The beginning of printing in the following states: New Mexico, California, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming. …

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. . 4to 11" - 13" tall. 57 pages. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. . 4to 11" - 13" tall. 57 pages. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Special Limited Edition. Fine-looking copy of an account of the how the first printing press came to each of the eleven Western states. Illustrated light tan over boards, black cloth-backed, gilt title to spine. A printing keepsake for printers, produced for the members of the Los Angeles Club of Printing House Craftsmen for the joy of the doing. Designed and printed by Richard Hoffman for the members in a Limited Edition. Strathmore Impress Book, binding done by Weber McCrea. Introduction by Roby Wentz, then Foreword also by him, then short chapters devoted to the first printing presses of the 11 Western states: New Mexico, California, Idaho, Nevada, California, Arizona, Washington, New Mexico, Oregon, Montana and Utah. 57 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Wentz, Roby. Western printing: a selective and descriptive bibliography of books and other materials on the history of printing in the Western States 1822-1975. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1975, 90pp., very good black 1/4 cloth with illustrated brown boards. 300 copies printed by Richard J. Hoffman. 9780870931697 ISBN 0870931695. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Signed & inscribed by author on front endpaper. 4to. A Very Good copy. Book has shelfwear, sunning to pictorial covers, rubbing to covers, toning to pages, and is somewhat musty. Interior is tight, clean, and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 90 pp., illustrated, 8vo, black quarter cloth, printed paper sides, gilt title. With several plates; 182 items are described. One of 300 copies. Fine, crisp copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 19 Pp. Chronology. Stapled. Fine.

cloth-backed boards. 4to. cloth-backed boards. (ii), 57, (3) pages. First edition. Designed and printed by Richard Hoffman in an unmentioned limited edition. Slight rubbing of covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Book has a few light smudges to front cover. Corners have some wear as well as bottom edge. Inscribed, dated (12-26-77), signed by author on FFEP. ``. Signed.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1956; Los Angeles; light yellow paper covers with black cloth spine covered; light wear; interior is clean and unmarked; From the library of ABAA bookseller, Tom Nicely; 4to,9 3/4" to 12" tall; 57 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 182pp. Limited to 300 copies. Inscribed by author to half title-page. Text clean and binding tight. Minor wear to upper corners of boards. Overall, a nice, clean, attractive copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Paper Boards. Condition: NF. No Jacket. Limited First Edition. Book has owner bookplate. Book.

[8], 36, [2] boards. Bound in quarter cloth over decorated paper boards. Printed paper spine label. Frontispiece portrait of Dahlstrom tipped in. Title page printed in red and black. Printed by Vance Gerry at the Weatherbird Press. Copy 109 of 300.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Quarto. Black fabric and paper with the western states decoratively included. Gilt lettering to spine. A comprehensive guide to the first printing pressed in 11 of the Western U.S. states. Very Good. Binding tight. Textblock clean.

33pp. 8vo. Original cloth, b&w photographic illustrations, a fine copy.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket is moderately soiled, and stained. Light wear on jacket corners. Cover and inside pages are clean and unmarked. Light foxing along edges.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket is moderately faded, soiled, and stained. Light wear on jacket corners. Cover and inside pages are clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. hardback, 4to, 57pp, clean and sound, tight, printed boards and quarter cloth, Very Good / no dustwrapper.

1/4 Brown Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Nearly Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. One of 300 copies printed by Richard J. Hoffman. "A selective and descriptive bibliography of books and other materials on the history of printing in the Western States 1822-1975. 12 full-page illustrations. 182 entries in the bibliography. 90pp. Size: Thin Octavo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's oversized gilt-titled cloth-backed boards. PO penciled name. Slight foxing to edges. Tight and square. The plain paper DJ in mylar is sunned to spine with pencilled spine title, edgeworn with short edge tears. Limited to 750 copies. ; quarto; 151 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 1st. Spine black backstrip. Cream boards decorated with map of Western United States. Very good condition but for some light waterstaining to outer edge of text. A keepsake for the members of the International Assocation of Printing House Craftsmen attending their 37th Annual International Convention in Los Angeles.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Quarter black cloth gilt with decorative paper-covered boards, 8vo., 90 pages, illustrated. One of 300 copies printed by Richard J. Hoffman. From the collection of bookbinders Bela and Mariana Blau, and presumably bound by them. A fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 22 Pp. White Wrappers; With A Bookmark Containing The Colophon. A Keepsake For The Biennial Meeting Of The Roxburghe And Zamorano Clubs In October 1978.