POWER OF PRINT - AND MEN COMMEMORATING THE FIFTY YEARS OF LINOTYPE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PRINTING AND PUBLISHING.|THE
Dreier, Thomas
Published by Mergenthaler Linotype Co, Brooklyn, 1936
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square 8vo. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards. xiv, 166 pages. First edition. Designed by W. A. Dwiggins. A history of the linotype. Near fine. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards. Seller Inventory # 2281
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Title: POWER OF PRINT - AND MEN COMMEMORATING THE ...
Publisher: Mergenthaler Linotype Co, Brooklyn
Publication Date: 1936
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Dwiggins, W.A.
Edition: 1st Edition
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The Power of Print-- and Men: 1936 Commemorating the Fifty Years of Linotype's Contribution to Printing and Publishing, Together with the Text of a Salute to The Modern Newspaper Produced and Broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company
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Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, NY, 1936
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Seller: Books by White/Walnut Valley Books, Winfield, KS, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, NY, c1936. Hardcover. First Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; light suntoning to board and page top edges; light shelfwear to board edges. No DJ. Art deco brown cloth boards with black cloth overlay on the spine with dulled gilt lettering on the spine. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 165 pp 4to. This year (1936) marks the fiftieth anniversary of the commercial introduction of the Mergenthaler Linotype, an invention that meant more and that still means more to printers and publishers than any other invention since the introduction of movable types more than 400 years ago. This book tells not only about the machine and what it has accomplished, but tells even more about the policies, methods, standards, and ideals of Linotype leaders. A clean very presentable copy. Seller Inventory # 016756
THE POWER OF PRINT -- AND MEN; Commemorating the fifty years of linotype's contribution to printing and publishing Together with the text of a salute to the modern newspaper produced and broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company
Published by
Mergenthaler Linotype Co, Brooklyn NY, 1936
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First Edition
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
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Dwiggins, W. A. (illustrator). First Edition. Large 8vo, pp. xiv, 165. Index. With decorations at chapter heads in tan and gray. Gray paper patterned in tan over boards, with black cloth spine. Very slightly scuffed at ends of spine, o/w near fine. Colophon reads: " This book was designed and decorated by W. A. Dwiggins and is set in types designed by him expressly for Mergenthaler Linotype Company. The title page is composed in members of the metro family, the text is in electra. Presswork and binding by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass". Seller Inventory # 55007
The Power of Print - and Men: Commemorating the Fifty Years of Linotype's Contribution to Printing and Publishing
Published by
Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., 1936
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books, Burke, VA, U.S.A.
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Decorative Boards. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 165pp/illus. Cloth and decorated boards. Design and decorations by W.A. Dwiggins. First edition of this commemoration of the fifty year history of linotype use. Clean. Seller Inventory # 009321