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New York: The Colophon, 1930. Complete 47 volume set. SEE PHOTO. Very Good - Fine condition, some in their original glassine dust jackets. SEE PHOTO. This set consists of THE COLOPHON (1930-35, 20 vols); INDEX: THE COLOPHON 1930-35 (1935, 1 vol.), THE COLOPHON: NEW SERIES: A QUARTERLY FOR BOOKMEN (1935-8, 12 vols); THE COLOPHON: NEW GRAPHIC SERIES (1939-40, 4 vols); THE NEW COLOPHON (1948-50, 9 vols); and AN INDEX TO THE COLOPHON, NEW SERIES, THE COLOPHON, NEW GRAPHIC SERIES, AND THE NEW COLOPHON by Dean H. Keller (Metchuen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1968). Laid in several of the volumes are original ephemera - subscription/renewal forms, promotional leaflets, letters from the editors, prospectuses for private press publications, exhibition announcements, issues of the COLOPHON CRIER, etc. Many of these volumes include original prints -- by Max Beerbohm, Gustave Baumann, Charles W. Smith, K. M. Ballantyne, Anne Goldthwaite, Victoria Hutson, Thomas Nason, Emmil Ganso, etc. [NOTE: The Milne print from Volume 5 has been neatly removed, but the 47 volume set is complete with ALL other illustrations]. Includes a previously unpublished drawing by Rockwell Kent and a logo designed by him, designs by Edward A. Wilson, Boris Artzybasheff and T. M. Cleland, a leaf of paper handmade by Dard Hunter, etc. Other artists represented are Eric Gill, Robert Gibbings, Eric Ravilious, David Jones, John Farleigh, and many more. Among the contributing authors are Willa Cather, Robinson Jeffers, Rockwell Kent, Edith Wharton, Pearl Buck, Dorothy Sayers, Carl Van Vechten, Edwin Arlington Robinson, James Branch Cabell, Stanley Morison, A. E. Coppard, Vincent Starrett, John Carter, Walter Hart Blumenthal, Rollo Silver, Barton Currie, Robert W. G. Vail, John Eckel, John Winterich, Hugh Walpole, Frederic Melcher, Seymour de Ricci, Harry B. Smith, Christopher Morley, Wilmarth Lewis, R. W. Chapman, Michael Sadleir, Carolyn Wells, Percy Muir, David Randall, Wilfred Partington, William Kittredge, Alfred Pollard, Francis Meynell, etc. Robert Gibbings' article on the Golden Cockerel Press was printed by The Golden Cockerel Press. The signature PACIFIC NEWS was printed by the Grabhorn Press. Other contributing printers and designers are Bruce Rogers, Warren Chappell, W. A. Dwiggins, D. B. Updike, the Curwen Press, etc. Oversize Hardcover. This heavy 47 volume set will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments. But for media mail, you pay only our standard charge for 1 volume and we ship the other 46 volumes at no extra cost. First Editions. Oversize Hardcover (heavy). Very Good - Fine condition/some in original glassine DJ. Illus. by NOT a library discard. Various sizes (see photo). Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. Seller Inventory # 026397
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