D B Updike Printer (5 results)

First Edition. Folio (31.5cm); publisher's green cloth-backed decorative card wrappers; [2],ix,[5],127pp.; chiefly sheet music. Spine ends, wrapper extremities rubbed and textblock rather shaken, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper ("M.A. Wentworth"). Good or better overall, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Forms part of the Musicians Library series. Landmark collection of African-American spirituals, by the first musician of African descent to gain true eminence as a composer in the European classical style. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Colophon: "Reprinted from the First Edition of the Dictionary in the Charles Orr Memorial Collection of the Rowfant Club Library, by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston. One hundred ten copies have been printed, of which this is number 107." 7 5/8 x 10 3/8 in. 32 pp.+ colophon with printed device. Title page in red & black. Light brown/tan cloth spine with gilt title; large swirl pattern marbled paper-covered boards, top edge gilt. Lower & upper sides of spine show minor wear, slight rubbing to cover corners. A Leo Wyatt bookplate featuring a frog design is on the front paste-down. A near fine copy.…

First Edition. Limited to 275 copies. Slim octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth-backed decorative boards, paper spine label printed in gilt; [6],40pp. Signed by the author on half title. Board extremities darkened, spine faded; interior unopened. Very Good and sound overall. Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Signed.…

Printer. Three pages, 8vo. "I write to tell you that the [memorial] tablet [for Wilkins Updike] is completed and in place at St. Paul's Church, Wickford, and I enclose herewith a small photograph of it which you might like to see (ENCLOSED]. He doesn't feel a memorial service is appropriate, buyt gives notice of what is planned in the Church to commemorate their grandfather (e.g. an essay prize on a point of local history). "As I considered myself simply a treasurer for the fund for the rest of the family. I submit herewith an account of the disbursements which I think you will find in order". He also encloses his visiting card.…

Condition: Very Good. Boston: Club of Odd Volumes, 1906. First Odd Volumes Edition Limited to 114 copies. Tall octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards, upper cover and spine stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers; xi,[1],130pp.; four leaves of plates, including folding maps and facsimiles, woodcut illus. adorning title page and colophon. Moderate wear to board extremities with brief exposure, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy of this uncommon and handsome Odd Volumes production.…