My Life With Paper: An Autobiography by HUNTER, Dard - 1958

New York: G.W. Dillingham, Publisher, Successor To G.W. Carleton & Co, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Light green decorative cloth. Lean to spine, head and tail creased and frayed with small tears. Boards stained, extremities bumped, rubbed and frayed. Previous owner's gift inscription on ffep. Front free endpaper splitting, but still attached. Light staining to endpapers.

New York: Knopf, 1958. A fascinating autobiography of Hunter, an American author, illustrator, type designer and founder, papermaker and printer. A famed scholar and craftsman of all aspects of paper arts, he is perhaps best known for his monumental series of volumes on handmade paper traditions around the world. Ex-lib with minimal markings (blind stamp on title page; light residue of library cards on rear endpapers). Discolouration on page facing one tipped-in sample. Overall a very good, clean copy. xiii, 237, x pp., 58 b&w pags, 2 tipped in original paper samples, both dating to ca. 1930.. First Edition. Hard bound. Very Good. 22 x 15 cm..

Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First edition, first printing. Fine in very good to near fine, lightly worn dust jacket with a moderately sunned spine in mylar cover..

New York: Knopf, 1958. First. hardcover. near fine/near fine. 58 tipped in illustrations are an example of Chinese spirit paper and an example of hand-made paper from Hunter's mill in Lime Rock. 237 pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w.; (d.w. lightly soiled). New York: Knopf, 1958. First Edition. With a 10 page bibliography.<br/><br/>

Knopf, 1958T. hardcover. Very Good. 1.1000 8.5000 5.9000. First edition, stated.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardbound with Dust Jacket. First Edition. With full cloth brown binding with drawing in blue background to cover. With 2 paper samples bound in. VERY FINE. All corners pointed. Binding firm and square. Without creases, bumps or chips. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright. Dust Jacket same. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Photographs. The legendary papermaker's memoirs was more than a book about paper: it was a travel and cultural story as well. This copy was purchased by noted collector Abel Berland from renowned Chicago bookseller Jerry Nedwick, as noted and signed by Berland in pencil on the back endpaper. It has his bookplate on the front free endpaper, and laid in is a leaflet, ACTA: Christophori Beiisii. printed on handmade paper by the Cuckoo Hill Press in England for the Typophiles, and bears relation to the book. Both book and jacket are pristine, extremely scarce in this condition.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/good. Alfred A. Knopf, 1958. First Edition. 237pp., vii, index, bibliography, black and white photographs, bound-in specimen of Hunter's paper, tipped-in example of Chinese spirit-paper. 8vo. Terra cotta cloth with blue and gold boxed emblem on front cover, blue and gold titles on spine. Inscribed on first page "For Martin Stiles with all kind wishes---Dard Hunter--December mcmlviii" Fine bright hardcover in worn d/j.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover. 1958. 1st Edition. 8vo 327, viipp . Near Fine in Near Fine DJ. B&W Photographs. Two handmade paper samples bound in . Corners very slightly bumped. . Dard Hunter (1883–1966) was an American authority on printing, paper, and papermaking—especially by hand, using the tools and craft of four centuries prior. Hunter produced two hundred copies of his book Old Papermaking, preparing every aspect of the book himself: he wrote the text, designed and cast the type, did the typesetting, handmade the paper, and printed and bound the book. A display at the Smithsonian Institution that appeared with his work read, " In the entire history of printing, these are the first books to have been made in their entirety by the labors of one man. " .

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine DJ.. First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiography of arguably the greatest papermaker (and scholar on the subject) of the 20th century. Typography, binding, and jacket design by Rudolph Ruzicka. Usually found with a sunned spine, this is a very handsome copy. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ bright and clean. Red cloth boards, blue ink labels, gilt lettering and decorative elements, bound-in specimen of Hunter's paper, tipped-in example of Chinese spirit-paper. 8vo. 336pp plus vi. Illus (b/w plates). Index. Original Prospectus/Order Sheet laid in.