Calendar of Ornamental Material from the Collection of the Silver Buckle Press
by Tetenbaum, Barbara
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Madison, WI: Silver Buckle Press, 1988. First trade edition. Paperback. Fine. (60) pp., 16mo. A universal calendar (good in any year), with elaborate and fanciful designs for each month, hand set using material from the Printer's Ornament Collection of the Silver Buckle Press ("a working typographic museum of nineteenth- and twentieth-century printing equipment located in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries"). Offset edition of 1500, reproducing the original letterpress calendar designed, printed, and hand bound by Barbara Tetenbaum with the assistance of Marta Gomez, Tracy Honn, and Phyllis McGibbon. Minuscule bumps to corners, otherwise as new.
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- Bookseller
- Passages Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003412
- Title
- Calendar of Ornamental Material from the Collection of the Silver Buckle Press
- Author
- Tetenbaum, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First trade edition
- Publisher
- Silver Buckle Press
- Place of Publication
- Madison, WI
- Date Published
- 1988
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About the Seller
Passages Bookshop
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Portland, Oregon
About Passages Bookshop
Passages Bookshop stocks fine, rare, and unusual books and graphic art, with a concentration on modern and contemporary literature and art (particularly poetry and the avant-garde), artist's books, fine printing, and the book arts. The successor to New York City's Bridge Bookshop (late 1980s), Passages opened in Albuquerque in 1994 and relocated to Portland, Oregon, in 1997. Recently settled into our new location in NW Portland, we are open by appointment or chance. Proprietor: David Abel, info@passagesbookshop.com
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