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hard cover, name in front, 310 pages, 5 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches, 1st edition very good book condition, no dust jacket, non-fiction,
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The Dolphin: A Periodical for All People Who Find Pleasure in Fine Books, Spring 1941, Number 4, Part III (Three, 3
Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1941
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. Appleton, LeRoy H. (wood engravings) (illustrator). First Edition. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1941. A superior copy. Near Fine condition with just a touch of rubbing at the extremities, but with almost none of the spine fading that afflicts so many copies. Corners are NOT bumped. Bookplate of distinguished bookseller William Wreden (1910-1995) on the front pastedown endpaper. It is imprinted "From the Bibliographical Library of William P. Wreden." His renowned bibliographical library was sold at Swann Galleries in New York in a two-day sale in 1990. In memory of his continued support of their Libraries, Stanford University awards the Byra J. and William P. Wreden Prize for Collecting Books and Materials. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bound in the original bright, glossy green cloth, stamped in dark green. Number 4, Spring 1941, Part III only. Illustrations throughout. Among this part's articles are: TOM SAWYER AND THE ILLUSTRATORS by Warren Chappell; THE MAN WHO BECAME A BOOKBINDER [Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson] by Ward Ritchie; HOW TO LOOK AT A BOOK by Philip Van Doren, with drawings by Donald McKay; BROTHER JONATHAN READS THE SONG OF SONGS by Emma L. Patterson, with drawings by Carlotta Petrina; MY FAVORITE BOOK AND WHY: A SYMPOSIUM with James Daugherty, Edmund Thompson, Zhenya Gay, Robert Ward Johnson, David T. Potinger, and Carlotta Petrina; THE CRANBROOK PRESS by Paul McParlin; --PATTERNS IN PRINT [typography] by Holbrook Jackson; BYWAYS OF BOOKMAKING edited by Dr Culrarity; THE GOOD BOOKS OF 1940 by Joseph Blumenthal. The separately paginated section at the end is a short story, THE AMBITIOUS GUEST by Nathanial Hawthorne, illustrated with wood- engravings by LeRoy H. Appleton. LEC Bibliography #S-5. 8.5" wide by 12" tall. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Near Fine condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by Appleton, LeRoy H. (wood engravings). pp. 233-312 + 14 pages. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
