Staples Press (13 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 30pp. Bound in decorated buff wrappers. 6.75" x 4.25" Publisher's style manual with table of editorial markings.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 40 pages. Cliff Parfit "An Exlibris Library In Japan". Graham Moss "Staples"/ Recent Private Press Books.

Printed wrappers. 8vo, 27 cm, [6], 82 pp, ills, maps. A trifle frayed at the foot of the spine, otherwise Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with no DJ. Gray cloth over boards with gold lettering on front board and spine. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1952. 276 pages. Very light shelf wear at top and bottom edges of spine as well as corners of boards. Gold lettering on front board and spine is shiny and legible. Minor rubbing across front and rear boards. Patterned front and rear endpapers. Small green star at bottom left of rear attached endpaper. Pages are in excellent shape with graphs throughout. Text is neat and legible. Binding strong and secure with no missing pages. Very Good condition. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Hardback, gilt title to spine. Original covers bound in. 82pp. Illus. Boards slightly grubby. Small bookplate of E. W. Sweet to front pastedown. A very pleasing copy. (p16).

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Minor browning to the wrappers and the pages. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: 82 pages: illustrations,maps; 27 cm. Subjects: Alphabet History; Exhibitions. Alphabet History. Genre: Catalogue. Illustrated. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Number 91 of 229 press-numbered copies. Illustrated with type specimens, reproductions from books and inset book jackets. Blue half calf, gilt, with marbled sides and endpapers. Spine and corners a bit rubbed, front cover marked, some foxing. A good copy. The fifth edition. Principal contents include: TRUTH: Seventy-Five Years a National Weekly, How to correct a Proof; A Glossary.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Number 91 of 229 press-numbered copies, signed by Ronald Staples, for private circulation only. Printed in red, blue and black. Illustrated with specimens of type, reproductions of pages from books, line blocks, half-tones and various tables.Maroon half calf, gilt, with marbled paper sides and endpapers. Wear to top and tail of spine, slight rubbing elsewhere. Occasional light foxing. About very good. The second edition of this publication. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Number 91 of 229 press-numbered copies, signed by Ronald Staples, for private circulation only. Illustrated with type specimens, an inset leaf, colour lithographs after Alfred Chalon. Bound in grey half calf, gilt, with marbled paper sides and endpapers. Extremities a little rubbed. A very good copy. The fourth edition, much concerned with alphabets and the Trajan column. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Number 91 of 229 press-numbered copies for private circulation, signed by Ronald Staples. Printed in red, blue and black. Illustrated with various type specimens, half-tones, four-colour half-tones and a tipped in colour plate. Green half calf, gilt, with marbled paper sides and endpapers. Rubbed at edges and elsewhere. A good copy. The first in the series. It includes short articles on Line blocks, The Half-tone Process, The Lithographic Printing process, The Law as it affects a Printer. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Minor browning to the wrappers and the pages. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: 82 pages: illustrations,maps; 27 cm. Subjects: Alphabet History; Exhibitions. Alphabet History. Genre: Catalogue. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

4to., with a folding frontispiece and numerous illustrations and type samples in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, a very good, clean copy. Scarce. The advisory panel includes Francis Meynell, Stanley Morison and Mortimer Wheeler.

Five documents. The two telegrams are in fair condition, lightly aged and worn; the other items are in good condition. A photocopy of a typed page from Brooks's diary explains the context in entertaining fashion: '"Staggerer number one," whispered Dick Swiveller over my shoulder this morning when on my office desk I found a letter from Ronald Staples giving me a twelve month's statutory notice of dismissal from the editorship of Truth.' He explains that the magazine is losing money, and criticises Staples's plans. 'However here's a how-de-do! Unless I sell my Statist holding very soon, I'll be bankrupt, and now with no job to keep me in roof and oddments. I immediately wrote to Beaverbrook, who is in the Barbadoes. [.] I anticipate no help from that quarter, for many reasons, and will next have to try Hulton. The prospect of going back to slave-journalism is no pleasant [one] within a month of one's fifty-ninth birthday'. Next comes a typed copy of a letter from Staples to Brooks, 27 November 1952, beginning: 'When I first had the pleasure of meeting you on the subject of TRUTH you kindly said you would be willing to carry on the editorship "for as long or as short a period" as I wished up to three years.' He continues with reference to his 'serious illness', before stating that 'we are losing money rapidly and we feel that we should re-organise and change the format and size but not the character of the paper. We feel that the re-organisation will include an eventual change in the editorship. We know you will not regard it as unappreciative therefore if we ask you to please regard this letter as a formal twelve month notice of the termination of the engagement.' The next item is a carbon of Brooks's letter to Beaverbrook, 28 November 1952. He explains that he has to leave Truth, but has 'still to earn a livelihood. | Is there any possibility of your being able to fit me into your organisation? | I ask this not on grounds of personal friendship, but because I am an experienced leader-writer, feature-writer, literary critic and commentator, with some "following." He concludes: 'This request, I trust, will not embarrass you.' Beaverbook's response is a Post Office Cable & Wireless telegram, 5 December [1952] (capitals reduced): 'Letter received stop I would like it stop Please see Robertson | Max'. The fifth item is unconnected: a Cable & Wireless telegram, 24 December 1950: 'My dear Collin very many thanks for your good message and also for your goodwill and good friendship | Maxwell Beaverbrook'.