Published by Boston: D. B. Updike Merrymount Press, 1909
Seller: T. Brennan, Bookseller since 1998 (ABAA / ILAB), Ellsworth, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Publisher's blue leather with gilt spine lettering, octavo, pp. [i-iv], 1-102, [103]. Top edge gilt. Spine hubbed into six compartments. Marbled endpapers. Woodcut monogram device on title page. Illustrated with 10 tissue guarded plates and two facsimiles (one folds out). Lovely hand-made paper. GOOD-only condition. Spine ends and board tips rubbed through and a few random nicks in the leather. For more, see Merrymount Press Bibliography (San Francisco, 1975) number 336.
Published by (The Merrymount Press), Boston, 1909
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
cloth. Dennison, E.W. (illustrator). 8vo. cloth. (vi), 103 pages. First edition printed by D.B. Updike at his Merrymount Press. Minor rubbing to extremities, Minor soiling to preliminary pages and titlepage. Else a fine copy. A biography of the founder of this famous printing firm. Dennison specialized in the production of ephemeral material such as tags, crepe paper, etc. Frontispiece portrait, facsimile of letters and illustrations of the printing plant. Features information on boxmaking and papermaking, as well as watchmaking.
Published by Merrymount Press, Boston, 1909
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. First edition. 103 pages. 24. x 15.5 cm. 10 photographic plates with tissue guards, and 2 facsimiles, one folding. Printed by D.B. Updike at The Merrymount Press, another tribute to an industrialist which later became Avery-Dennison, a major paper product company. Orig. striated navy cloth backstrip lettered in gilt. Teg. Near fine.
Published by [The Merrymount Press], Boston, 1909
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
103 pp. Illustrated from photographs. 8vo, full dark blue morocco, t.e.g. First edition. There is a shallow dampstain the top marginal 1/4" of about the first half of the text block, faintly visible on the binding; otherwise a very attractive copy.