Private Presses and Their Books
by Ransom, Will
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Kraków, Poland
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: R. R. Bowker, 1929 8vo (23.5 cm), 494 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly sunned and frayed at extremities). Limited to 1200 copies, printed at the Lakeside Press. A history of the private press movement, featuring detailed checklists of nearly 3000 titles issued by over 300 presses. This work represents the first comprehensive study of the private press movement and stands as a standard reference in the field. Besterman, Printing, P. 141.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006518
- Title
- Private Presses and Their Books
- Author
- Ransom, Will
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- R. R. Bowker
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliography;
Terms of Sale
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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About the Seller
Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Biblio member since 2019
Kraków
About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specialty: Bibliography, history and art of the book, libraries and collections, mathematical sciences, old Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography
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