Editore: Detroit Public Library, Detroit, MI, 1942
Da: Old Professor's Bookshop, Belfast, ME, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. 16 pp. 8vo. Blue paper wraps with a white paper label pasted from rear to front on which the title is printed in red and black. Very minor scuffing, clean within. Endpapers illustrated with red silhouettes of fighting ships from Armitages book, "United States Navy" published in 1940. Laid in is a sheet indicating that this is Keepsake No. 71 from The American Institute of Graphic Arts. A simple and delightful design by Armitage of this little pamphlet listing his work contained within the Detroit Library and the focus of an exhibition from August 17 - September 19, 1942. A jewel! OCLC shows holdings in only 6 institutions.
Editore: The Limited Editions Club, Inc., New York, NY, 1937
Da: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Cruikshank, George (illustratore). Limited Edition. 63 pages, 8vo. Limited Edition of 1500 copies, of which this is copy no.1468. The text is the version set down in 1828 by John Payne Collier. The etchings made by George Cruikshank for the first edition are reproduced by collotype from one of only eighteen sets of pulls originally made on india paper. Designed by Frederic Warde, and printed under his supervision at the Princeton University Press. Collotype reproductions of both etchings and water-colors made by Arthur Jaffe of Vienna. Bound in publisher's full pictorially embossed blind-stamped cowhide. Includes folding chemise and slipcase. Minor shelfwear to book: light rubbing along edges and covers. Chemise has some tearing along spine edge, water stain on cover of slipcase. Book is in Near Fine condition. Slipcase and chemise are in Good condition.
Editore: The Profile Press, New York, 1946
Da: Munster & Company LLC, ABAA/ILAB, Corvallis, OR, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. New York: The Profile Press, 1946. Unpaginated. Plain card covers with paper jacket printed in black, red, blue, and yellow. This is the third of a series of keepsake booklets produced by Profile Press, and the first to be made available for sale due to the positive reception of the first two booklets. Some soiling to spine and rear panel of jacket, with a small 5 x 20 mm chip to tail of rear panel and a short 11 mm closed tear to head of panel. Some rubbing to extremities of jacket. Some light age toning throughout. Binding sound. A exceptionally scarce publication from the Profile Press. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.