Will Ransom Introduction (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No dust jacket. ; Copy number "xxx" of 300.

Very good condition. This is a 4to size softcover book with plastic comb binding. Most cover edges are bumped. About 125 un-numbered pages of specimen pages from 36 books.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Blue cloth gilt, 8vo., xvi, 57, (1) pages. One oof 250 copies printed from Granjon and Garamond types on Worthy Sterling Wove paper. From the collection of David Chambers. A very near fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Light brown cloth gilt with cover label, 8vo., xi, 15-95, (6) pages. Largely a continuation of Ransom's 1929 bibliography through 1935. One of 300 numbered copies designed and printed by Norman W. Forgue. From David Chambers collection, with a compliments card to Walter Tracy from James Shand and a TLS from Walter Tracy gifting the book to Chambers, loosely inserted. Quite the provenance. Light wear, spine sunned, else a very good copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Hardcover. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt emblem to front board and gilt title to spine. Damp stain to top half of outside edge of front board and a few small spots of discoloration to front board as well. Light check marks written in pencil to margins throughout. Else is clean and bright. Index, 57 pages. Books about Books. BOB/012612.…

Hardcover. First edition, limited. Chicago: The Black Cat Press, 1935. 95, [3 - index] pages. Original tan buckram with gilt spine lettering and printed paper cover label. [24 cm.] Spine sun-darkened and with a few small spots and a little speckling, minor foxing to gutters of prelims; about very good. FIRST EDITION. One of 300 copies, this copy unnumbered and stamped "For Review Only" on the colophon. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER, Norman W. Forgue, on the front free endpaper. The inscription reads: "To J. L. Frazier, with the cordial regard of Norman W. Forgue." The recipient was Julius Leroy Frazier (1885-1966), who wrote and published "Modern Type Display" (1920) and "Type Lore: Popular Types of Today" (1925). Frazier also worked for a time as an associate editor at the Inland Printer Company. Norman W. Forgue (1904-1983) founded the Black Cat Press in 1932. He was responsible for the typographic design of the present volume and collaborated with the author in its compilation and production. The book is based on Will Ransom's "Private Presses & Their Books" (1929), which is here updated with books printed in the intervening years. The output of the Black Cat Press is included in the bibliography, although the limitation of the present work is curiously listed as 350 rather than 300 (see p. 45).…

Copy number '222' of an edition limited to 300 copies set in Linotype Granjon with Eden Light display lines designed by R. Hunter Middleton in combination with the Cursive typeface. Publisher's light brown cloth with inset printed label to the upper board and gilt lettering to the spine. Ex Libris book label 'Typographia' of J. Burke to front pastedown and small address label of the same to the rear pastedown. Octavo, pp. [blank] [i-viii] ix-xiv, 15-96 [Index, 97-100] [colophon] [9, blank]. A book in Very Good condition with slight wear to extremities.…