Silver Rollo (129 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Near fine book and jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover in price-clipped jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dustjacket as issued. First Edition. Tight binding with rubbing and chipping to extremities, bottom corners bumped. Darkening to text block edges with one small stain. Light toning to endpapers. Text and images unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A good, ex-library copy of the stated first hard cover edition, lacking a dust-jacket. Customary library treatments to the endpapers and the base of the spine. Sparse underlining with a few marginal notes in pencil on approximately two dozen of the pages. Library name blacked out on page edges of the volume. Very moderate wear at the extremities of the boards. A sharp copy. [Please note: Due to the size and weight of the volume extra shipping may be required depending on the destination and speed of delivery requested. Quotations gladly provided.].

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Scholarly journal with numerous illustrations and photographs. Immaculate inside. Very slight soiling to covers. Very slight foxing (age tan spotting) to outer page edges only. Very slight wear to edges. Will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Isaac M. Singer's Type Machine" by Madeleine B. Stern; "Violent Assaults on American Printing Shops, 1788-1860" by Rollo G. Silver; "A Sketch on the Brief Printing Career of David Cree, 1784-1786" by E. Richard McKinstry; "The End of Books" by Octave Uzanne; "Some Unlost Typefaces of Frederic W. Goudy"; plus reviews of the following books: "The Oxford University Press: An Informal History" by Peter Sutcliffe; "The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning, 1478-1978: An Illustrated History" by Nicholas Barker; "A Dictionary of Colonial American Printers' Ornaments and Illustrations: A Tribute to Alden Porter Johnson" by Elizabeth Carroll Reilly; "Francis Barlow: First Master of English Book Illustration" by Edward Hodnett; and "The Common Press" by Elizabeth Harris and Clintoin Sisson.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Quarter black cloth over grey cloth boards, gilt titles and embossed printers' marks on front board, (10.25 x 7 inches). First Edition. 189 pages with Appendix and Index; illustrated. Composed, letter-press printed and bound by Kingsport Press on Mohawk Superfine paper, book design by Edward G. Foss. A scholarly and finely printed work on early American printing. Provenance: owner's stamp of Jon R. Kelly on front fly, else an exceptionally clean, tight copoy.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. [8] pp., small 8vo, stapled card wrapper with flaps. Typophiles Monograph No. 97. One of 400 copies printed at The Stinehour Press. Very good copy; some faint toning and soiling to cover edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. X-Library book. Standard wear to cover and typical library markings. No dust jacket. 100% Money Back Guarantee!!!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Bottom corner has a small bump.

softcover. Condition: Fine copy. 1st. 8vo, 8 pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Printed wrappers, slender 4to., 8 pages. Speech delivered as the 1977 Annual Award Recipient. One of 1,000 copies printed by Edna Beilenson from Emerson type on Ragston Paper. Reproduced letter loosely inserted. A near fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. xiii, 139p, [1]. First edition. Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia.

139p, decorated boards with cloth spine, illus., vg. Index.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 189 pages. Light wear, discoloring; missing part of the front flyleaf; otherwise very good. No jacket. Contents are Apprentice, Joyrneyman and Master; The Printing Office; The Practice of Printing; Printer and Author; Expansion of the Press; Typography and Illustration. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 199522.

Condition: Very good. - Octavo, stapled self-wraps. Pages [207] through 228. The first page is slightly darkened & lightly soiled. Very good. Reprinted from the Society's "Studies in Bibliography".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Mild edgewear to boards. Solid binding and clean text. No ownership marks, ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 139 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Owner notes on front wrapper. ; The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America," Volume 47, Third Quarter, complete issue, original wrapper. Contents also include Richard S. Wormser "Fabulous Fiction.".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. light rubbing to bottom corners, lacking glassine dust jacket. With 36 illustrations. 139pp 1.06lb 8.7x5.8x0.9in.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Complete in "Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society" vol. 87, part 1 (April 1977), pp. 111-194. Complete issue, original wrapper. Also contains articles on following subjects: The Half-way covenant of 1662, the Great Awakening as the Key to the Revolution, and reconsiderations of some aspects of the origins of the American Revolution.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Book good. No Dust Jacket Bookplate inside. (History, Typefounding, Printing History).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. some shelfwear, still nice Standard-sized.

Condition: Very good. - Octavo, stapled printed golden yellow wraps. Slightly soiled. pp. [161]-200. Very good. Inscribed by Rollo Silver on the front wrap to pressman Fridolf Johnson and his wife and signed "Rollo".A reprint from Studies in Bibliography: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. Volume 16, 1963.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. First Edition. Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1967. Fine condition. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. An account of the practice of printing until 1825 when the cylinder press and the use of power revolutionized the industry. Gives details of the apprentice, journeyman, master, printing office, typography, typical sizes of editions, etc. Well illustrated with 28 reproductions of printing presses and many facsimile title and text pages from colonial books. Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia. Appendix lists the size of Matthew Carey's print runs for books by numerous important authors (Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Oliver Goldsmith, Noah Webster, George Washington, etc). Index. Bound in the original gray and black cloth with a gilt-stamped black cloth spine. Tanselle Basic Collection #115. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/No jacket, as issued. xiii, 190pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), pages 111-194. Offprint from the Proceedings of the Amaerican Antiquarian Society. Includes a state by state account of printing in this period with additional sections devoted to the west, and to sea-presses. Well footnoted. Presentation from Silver on title page.

Condition: Fine. - The approximately 2 inch high by 3 inch wide book label of pressman Fridolf Johnson is signed within its decorative green border "Rollo G.Silver". Near fine. Rollo G.Silver [1909-1989] was a noted Boston book collector and a scholar of U.S. printing, typography and bibliographical studies of rare books. In addition to writing classic books on these subjects, he also edited volumes of Walt Whitman's letters.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original stiff paper wrappers, octavo, pagination [135]-162.  Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Society for April, 1958. Very Good with light shelf/handling wear.

First Separate Edition. First Separate Edition. octavo, printed heavy paper wrappers. (ii), 111-194pp. American Antiquarian Society, Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. 87, Part 1, April, 1977. A very fine, clean copy. octavo, printed heavy paper wrappers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), pages 111-194. Offprint from the Proceedings of the Amaerican Antiquarian Society. Includes a state by state account of printing in this period with additional sections devoted to the west, and to sea-presses. Well footnoted. Crease in front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. First Edition. "Published for the Bibliographic Society". xiii, 139 pages; illustrations; index; publsiher's binding with tissue wrapper. Chapters on: Typefounding as a Permanent Industry; Some Minor Typerfounders and Punchcutters; Growth and Expansion; Inventions and Patenets; The Importation of Type. Very good clean copy.