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Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Co., 1949. Oversized Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very good, clean, tight condition. Limited copy 1187 of 1875. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

World Publ, Cleveland, OH, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. #811/1875 copies Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Books on Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 22306. .

CLEVELAND: WORLD, 1949. LIMITED FIRST EDITION. . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. ROGERS BRUCE DESIGNER. BOOK IS NO.1297 OF 1875 FIRST PART IS ABOUT MAKING THE BIBLE SECOND PART IS DECORATIONS AND INITIALS FOR WORLD BIBLE VERY NICE BOOK IS SOLID BRIGHT AND SQUARE BOUND IN RED WITH SHARP ILT DESIGN AND LETTERING SOME TEARS TO ONION SKIN JACKET BY SPINE SLIPCASE OK MISSING 2 INCH STRIP AT BOTTOM GREAT REFERENCE ON MID-CENTURY PUBLISHING

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company Book. Good Plus. Hardcover. (1949), 4to, 20 numbered pages, plus about 20 pages, printed on recto, showing decorations and initials for the World Bible. Limited to 1875 copies of which 500 are for sale, this #973..

Cleveland: World Publishing Company, [1949] Cloth. Quarto. Fine in very good publisher's slipcase. Slipcase has some chipping at spine.

Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co, 1949. cloth. Rogers, Bruce. 4to. cloth. 20, (22) pages. First edition, limited to 1875 copies. Lacking the slipcase, else a fine copy. With numerous photos of the making of this well designed Bible including reproductions of the decorations and initials used. Loosely inserted are two versions of a prospectus to this Bible. The typography is by the notable American book designer Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), who "was appreciated in his lifetime. In addition to several honorary degrees, in 1948 he was awarded a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for distinction in the graphic arts. Over decades of accomplishment in which he designed approximately 500 books... Rogers literally defined the profession of book designing in the United States" (ANB).

Cleveland: World Publishing, 1949. First Edition. One of 1875 numbered copies. Fine in a very good publisher’s slipcase. Inscribed by Targ.

Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co, 1949. cloth, slipcase. Rogers, Bruce. 4to. cloth, slipcase. 20, (22) pages. First edition, limited to 1875 copies. Fine in near fine slipcase. Unusual to still find in slipcase. With numerous photos of the making of this well designed Bible including reproductions of the decorations and initials used. The typography is by the notable American book designer Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), who "was appreciated in his lifetime. In addition to several honorary degrees, in 1948 he was awarded a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for distinction in the graphic arts. Over decades of accomplishment in which he designed approximately 500 books... Rogers literally defined the profession of book designing in the United States" (ANB).

The World Publishing Company. Used - Very Good. 1949. No. 210 of 1875 copies. Cloth, quarto, 20 pp. of text plus extensive unpaginated appendix containing typeface and design info., illus. Some minor smudging on back cover. In excellent condition. Fine. (Subject: Books on Books & Cartography.)

Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1949. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Rogers, Bruce. Two volumes, the Bible one of 975 copies, elephant folio size, [942] pp., [and] Making of the Bible number 178 of 1875 copies, quarto size, [41] pp. The second folio Bible designed by Bruce Rogers, this time for an American publisher (his first was the "Oxford Lectern Bible", published in 1935), using the King James Version. No other book designer / typographer from the history of printing can claim to have designed two complete folio Bibles, each one highly regarded. Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), American typographer who invented the "Centaur" tyepface (based on the Renaissance-period printing of Nicolas Jenson), is considered by many to be one of the greatest book designers of the twentieth century. He designed books for the Riverside Press, Cambridge, when he cut his first typeface, "Montaigne," named for the first book it appeared in, "The Essays of Montaigne," 1903; he designed… Read More