Updike Daniel Berkeley Et Al (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, cloth, 156pp. + [44]pp. of title-pages & types. First edition. VG+: a clean, bright and sound copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8vo. 156pp + 22pp. plates. Blue cloth-covered boards, lacking dust jacket. Printed by Peter Beilenson.

Hardcover. First edition. New York: The American Institute of Graphic Arts, [printed by Peter Beilenson, Mount Vernon], 1947. 156 pages, plus [44] pages of facsimiles and specimens, being "A Gallery of Merrymount Title-Pages and Merrymount Types." Original dark blue cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. [23.9 cm.] A near fine copy in very good dust jacket with tiny chip to head of front panel, several short, closed tears neatly repaired on verso with archival mending tissue, and sun-fading to spine panel. FIRST EDITION. "A collection of papers written by friends and colleagues about one of the few great printers of the first half of this century. Two of the papers about him were written during Updike's lifetime; four were written shortly after his death in 1941; two were written specially for the present book. The long preliminary essay is the printer's own story of his career." "An Editor's Summary," p. 153. The contributors were Stanley Morison, Gregg Anderson, T.M. Cleland, M.A. de Wolfe Howe, George Parker Winship, Rudolph Ruzicka, David T. Pottinger, and Carl P. Rollins.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Notes on the Press and its work by Updike, with a gathering of essays by Stanley Morison, T.M. Cleland, M.A. DeWolfe Howe, Rudolph Ruzicka and others. With a gallery of Nerrymount title-pages and types. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket is fine but for a 1/8" horizontal chip across top edge of spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. blue boards have gilt stamped spine, a near fine copy in a slightly chipped but very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 156pp + 35pp, Updike's Merrymount Press title-page designs, stampos US information centere on title page and illustrations. Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering; quarto.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Quarter black cloth gilt with decorated blue cloth-covered boards, DW, slender 8vo., (iii), 27, (3) pages. Keepsake No. 58 of the AIGA. With the spine title of "W. H. Kent & the Museum Press", the five addresses are by Daniel Berkeley Updike, Carl Purington Rollins, William Mills Ivins, Jr., Bruce Rogers and Henry Watson Kent. Designed by Rollins and printed at the Printing Office of the Yale University Press. Loosely inserted into this copy are two "RSVP" cards for the March 8, (1938) meeting of the Typophiles, each signed by Rollins and Kent, with their hand-written addresses, and the notice from the AIGA presenting the book. A fine, clean copy with the barest traces of edgewear, in the quite torn, original acetate DW, and in archival mylar. Signed by Author(s). …