The New Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly. Volume II, Part Five (January 1949)

One of 2500 copies. Original publisher's beige paper-covered boards with a maroon and olive-yellow color illustration on front cover of people reading books and wearing what appear to be Renaissance-era clothes. Decorative olive-yellow rectangle on back. Black lettering on beige spine. 8" x 10 3/4." Pages 1-104, complete. Illustrations in black-and-white and color, complete. Advertisements for books, bookstores, and similar items and businesses in the back. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Binding is tight. A few sticky stains are on top edge of text block but do not affect text or illustrations. Small brown spot at tail of spine. Slight rubbing to covers and spine. Some bumping to corners and parts of the edges. Boards have light age toning throughout. A Very Good copy. Back colophon: "This Part Five of the Second Volume of The New Colophon, published by Duschnes Crawford, Inc. at New York, continues the franchise of the original Colophon, established in 1928 and published by the Pynson Printers, Inc., at New York. The New Colophon was printed by E. L. Hildreth & Company at Brattleboro, Vermont for 2500 subscribers, January 1949." The New Colophon was a quarterly book collectors' periodical that was published from 1948-1950. It was the successor toThe Colophon which had been established in 1928 by Elmer Adler (1884-1962), the founder of Pynson Printers in New York City. The following are the features in this issue: "Epic on an American Theme" by Stephen Vincent Benet, "Grahornana" by Oscar Lewis, "Peter the Whaler, Plagiarist" by Malcolm M. Willey, "Colored Paste Papers" by Rosamond B. Loring, "A Seventeenth Century Book-Label Problem" by Edward Naumburg, Jr., "The Literature of the Gold Rush" by Carl I. Wheat, "Firsts, in a Manner of Speaking" by Vincent Starrett, Illustrated by Susanne Suba, "The Court of Appeals," "Marginalia," "Adventures in Typography," "Notes on Contributors," and "Immortality Poll" [results from 1936 and 1946 for a poll in which readers were asked which American authors they thought would be considered "classics" in the year 2000].…