Updike Daniel Berkeley Rudolph Ruzicka (3 results)

Condition: Good. 8vo. [156 pp.]. 1st Edition. Very Good. Hard covers. Blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Bumping to top right corner. All pages fine. Includes addition pages of Gallery of Merrymount Title-pages and Merrymount Types.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. Ruzicka, Rudolph; & W. A. Dwiggins; J. H. Benson (illustrator). First Edition, Limited 85 copies. New York: The American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1940. Near Fine condition. SEE OUR PHOTOS. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. 1940. First Edition. One of 85 specially bound copies for the Carteret Book Club from 850 printed for the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Has essays or decorations by Rudolph Ruzicka, W. A. Dwiggins, T. M. Cleland, Lawrence Wroth, H. W. Kent, and Updike, himself. Includes a checklist of Updike's writings by Karl Kup. Bound in the original rust color cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine and front cover. The last book printed by Elmer Adler's Pynson Printers. First Edition, Limited 85 copies. Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Ruzicka, Rudolph; & W. A. Dwiggins; J. H. Benson. 8vo. 56pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine binding. Small quarto. [2], vi, 182, [6] pp., plates, illus. Limited edition, number 50 of 50 special copies from a full edition of 500. Signed by the designer, Stinehour on the limitation page. As issued in marbled paper boards with cloth shelf-back and gold-stamped paper label on the spine. Two hinged in facsimiles found in all copies as well as several in-text illustrations (some full page). Additionally, there are three specimens, two are bifolia and one single sheet are hinged in at the back in a section "Limited Issue Supplement" found only in this special edition of 50 copies. Fascinating correspondence by two larger than life figures in the early 20th century. A beautiful copy with only a bit of foxing to the fore-edge. From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard with his small label on the rear pastedown.