Townsend Robert S Editor (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Printing. 57 pp. Illus. with drawings. Stories of Kansas City first appearing on the Kansas City Hour, a weekly porgram of great music sponsored by the Kansas City Life Insurance Company. The cover is lightly soiled and worn. Text clean. James, Frederic (illustrator).…

Stapled Booklet. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, 1960, white covers with black lettering and artwork. White covers show some foxing. No names or writing within.

Pamphlet. Condition: Good. Pamphlet 56 Pages; Ex-Library; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Illustrated by Frederic James (illustrator).

Presumed first edition (no direct edition/printing statement provided). xii, 522, [3] pages. Hardcover: H 26cm x L 18.25cm. Dark green dust jacket rubbed with some bumping/scuffing at edges. Brown cloth; spine heel lightly bumped. Slight soiling to text block edges. Past owner's pencil notes regarding book purchase and two errors on front free endpaper; associated pencil markings on pages 104, 106-107, and 119 (possible other markings present but they eluded discovery upon a cursory perusal); some light brown soiling to fore-edge margins of a few scattered leaves. Affixed to rear pastedown is sealed pocket containing DVD-ROM which has caused a circular impression to book's rear leaves. Binding is firm. With Editor's Preface, color and b/w illustrations, Author Biographies, Index, and Colophon. Features nine essays: "Historical Repair, Recycling, and Recovering Phenomena in the Islamic Bindings of the University of Michigan Library: Exploring the Codilogical Evidence" by Evyn Kropf; "Protection against the Evil Eye? Votive Offerings on Armenian Manuscript Bindings" by Sylvie L. Merian; "Colonial Blankbooks in the Winterthur Library" by Consuela G. Metzger; "A Primer on Signed Bindings" by Robert J. Milevski; "Not Just Another Beautiful Book: A Typography of American Scaleboard Bindings" by Julia Miller; "Beating, Rolling, and Pressing: The Compression of Signatures in Bookbinding Prior to Sewing" by Jeffrey S. Peachey; "European Influence in the Binding of Mexican Printed Books of the Sixteenth Century" by Martha E. Romero; "Papier-Mache Bindings: 'Shining in Black and Gorgeous with Pearl and Gold'" by Jennifer W. Rosner; "The 1715 Mohawk Prayer Book: A Study of Six Copies in Colonial American Scaleboard Bindings" by John Townsend. Please note that this book has an approximate shipping weight of 4 pounds (1.81 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 9780979797453.…