The Pleasure of Books (No Reply Press Limited Edition Broadside). This item is unavailable.The Pleasure of Books (No Reply Press Limited Edition Broadside)

NO REPLY PRESS LIMITED EDITION BROADSIDE (unframed) . Portland, Oregon, No Reply Press, 2024. NEW . This printing was limited to 200 numbered copies of which this is #120.Description from the Publisher:"THE PLEASURE OF BOOKSAN EXCERPT FROM AN ADDRESS BY WILLIAM LYON PHELPSWe are pleased to present the peroration of William Lyon Phelp's landmark address, The Pleasure of Books . There has rarely been a more immediate or succinci rundown on the importance of books. Book-friends (as opposed to human-friends, says Phelps) provide a second reality of sorts - one in which we are less tethered by age or circumstance or wealth or ability. The pleasure of books is, in fact, so obvious, that Phelps seems to say (as Emerson put it) 'with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we [are] forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.'This rousing summation of why we love books not only speaks a deep truth but is a statement of purpose. It reminds us what our books are for.The address is printed alongside two-toned deco ornamentation.COLOPHONA broadside from No Reply, 2022.Limited to 200 numbered copies.Measuring 6 by 11 inches.Printed letterpress on a hand-operated Vandercook Universal I proofing press.Zerkall-butten mould-made paper.Typeset in 13-point Weiss."This broadside is in Very Fine condition. Clean, no marks, no wear.Included are several printing examples from No Reply Press.All items are Carefully Packed and Shipped Daily with Delivery Confirmation from a Dry, Smoke-Free shop.…