Rod Back Binder Considerations Binding, First Edition (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The finest looking copy of this book that I've ever seen. Brown textured linen cloth over boards, no lettering to spine, but a most handsome black cloth label with gilt lettered title to front cover. 32 pp. Preface by the R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company treating of the book's subject. Several score handsome black-and-white illustrations, and several more black-and-white plates printed on high-gloss paper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A Rod For The Back Of The Binder: Some Considerations of Book Binding With Reference to the Ideals of The Lakeside Press. Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1929. First Edition. 10 x 7 ½ inches. 32 pages. Full black cloth decorated with light dashes of gilt, red label decorated in gilt on front cover. Fine condition, no owner's name. 16 full-page plates of decorative cloth and leather bindings, several text illustrations. ; 16 plates; 10 x 7 1/2 inches; 32 pages.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 32 pages. A how-to book. 16 plates, text illustrated. 4to. Black cloth. Black leather title label, gilt, laid down on front cover. Gilt patterned boards, some soiling/water marking to rear cover. Corners worn. Spine worn. Record # 809195.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Illustrated with full page black and white photographs, many with tissue guards and line drawings, 32 pages. patterned cloth binding, leather label with gilt title on front cover. Clean unmarked copy, solid binding, light wear to covers.

First edition. Brown/black cloth-covered boards decorated with clouds, pasted-on leather label with gilt lettering on front board, 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches, 32 pp., 16 b/w plates (b/w photos of fine bindings) protected by tissue guards. Very good plus (mild rubbing and edgewear; tissue guard for plate IV missing; else fine). (3214018).

4to. 32 pp. Double-page title. Numerous photo plates, text illusts. & diagrams. Illust. linen w/ cloud motif, brwn & gilt morocco labl on frnt cvr (mnr sunng to fore-edges, mnr bmpng hd of spine, wear to crnrs), still a G- copy, w/ bkplate on frnt pstdn. First edition of this nicely illustrated book on binding and styles of binding by the famed Lakeside Press.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and was possibly issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing and one small tear to the cloth on the top spine end of the book cover. There is a repaired tear to the spine of the book cloth as well. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, but do have some beginning toning to the edges and the endpapers. The tissue guards on some of the illustrated plates are missing. "The Donnelley company aimed to produce books and periodicals with impressive modern design and mass printed commercial and reference materials. Lakeside Press produced Encyclopædia Britannica, Time Magazine, Life Magazine, promotional literature for the Model T Ford, catalogs for Sears Roebuck, among others. The Press produced high quality collectible editions for the Chicago Caxton Club and the Limited Editions Club. Donnelly was the official printer for the 1933-1934 World's Fair, "A Century of Progress," which took place on the Lake Michigan lakefront just to the east of the plant. The company designed and printed official tickets, postcards, posters, brochures, and magazines which displayed the company's distinctive modernist design. " (from Wikipedia).

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Quarto. 32pp; 16 plates from photographs, other illustrations. Bound in patterned black cloth, red leather cover label, gilt; spine ends lightly rubbed. 10.5" x 7.5".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. 1st Edition. Black cloth decorated in muted gilt, lettered in gilt on brown leather front cover pastedown, deckled text block edges. Leather pastedown slightly rubbed along edges, otherwise essentially as issued. 32 pp., xvi b&w plates. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good to Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 32 pp. Original decorative cloth covers w/ gilt title on paper title label on front cover. Binding very bright and clean. Bottom corners slightly bumped. Illust. w/ b/w plates, most of which have laid-in tissue guards.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Quarto. Decorated cloth with green title label gilt. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good plus. Hardcover, rubbed at spine ends and corners, cover and foredges soiled, pages lightly browned at edges.

Condition: Good. 4to. 32 pp. Very good with marginal edgewear to boards and foxing. Hard cover. No dust jacket. Patterned black and gilt cloth binding. Leather title on cover with gilt text. Beveled pages. First edition.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Lacking original glassine dust jacket. Spine ends worn. Bottom board edges bumped. (bookbinding, technique).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. photos (illustrator). First edition. 4to, 31 pages, green cloth; glassine dj nicked "This book treats binding from a new angle, describing those book binding details concerning which mistaken ideas exist or in which bad binding practices are prevalent. These notes were written from the standpoint of the causes of defects developed in a binding when on the bookshelf in an American home." Illustrated with photogravures.

First Edition. First Edition. quarto, patterned cloth with red leather title label on front cover. 32pp. The Lakeside Press, A continuation of Extra Binding at the Lakeside Press, printed in 1925. Like its predecessor, this volume contains a detailed description of the press's binding methods and examples of their work. With 16 plates. Faint remnants of glue marks to back cover, else fine. quarto, patterned cloth with red leather title label on front cover.

Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 31 pps.

First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. A book on the production and design of books by this well established publisher. Includes 16 black and white photographs as well as numerous other illustrations. A very fine copy in cloth boards with leather label on the front board. A very attractive production.

First Edition. Pp. 32, 16 plates with loose tissue guards, numerous text figures; tall cr. 4to; black & gilt patterned cloth, gilt lettered and ruled green leather title label on upper board, bottom fore-corner of lower board slightly bruised; fore-edges uncut; occasional light foxing; R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, Chicago, 1928. First edition.