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Brooke M. Stephens: Wealth Happens One Day at a Time, Harper 2000
ISBN: 0965323226 Fine

GIFT QUALITY . Later Printing, also containt ISBN 0887309828. Unlike the megalisters selling the same title, this copy is NOT A REMAINDER, is in hand, individually described & listed in stock and ready to ship IMMEDIATLEY. Clean, solid copy in new condition. Will arrive like it were never taken off the bookstore shelf. Perfect edges and corners to clean, glossy wrap, no creases or marks. Perfect head and heel to spine. Absolutley no creasing to spine which is very presentable for shelf. Hinge and wrap without creasing. Pages clean, crisp and bright white, a high quality stock. No writing, stains, foxing, or marks of any kind. Page edges tight and even with sharp corners. No fingerprints or blemishes to pages or page edges. A good, clean, solid, FLAWLESS copy of which a photo is available upon request. In short, a new or near-new book, quite possibly unread. Trade Paperback

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World History Shirer, William L: Midcentury Journey: The Western World Through Its Years of Conflict, Farrar Straus & Young, NY, 1952
Condition: Good in Chipped DJ. Edge wear, content excellent. Book Size 8vo.

Midcentury Journey: The Western World Through Its Years of Conflict by William L Shirer. Published by Farrar Straus & Young, NY, 1952. Book Club Ed. Hardbound w/DJ. 8vo. Edge wear, content excellent. William Shirer, reporter, novelist and social historian, reappraises the European scene and gives us a modern European diary. This book is a journey in space and time through Western Europe and the United States, at the journey's end, the reader has a trained observer's first hand view of where we are and how we got there. 313 Pgs. Description text copyright 2007 BooksForComfort. Item ID 14779.; Book Club Ed

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Waddington, Alfred: FRASER MINES VINDICATED OR, THE HISTORY OF FOUR MONTHS.|THE, Vancouver Private Press of Robert R. Reid 1949
Here Reprinted for the First Time Exactly as Published in 1858 with an Introduction by W. Kaye Lamb, Dominion Archivist. Limited to 110 numbered copies. The colophon, with the device of Robert R. Reid, states "This is the first book issued from the private press of Robert R. Reid, who produced it for his personal enjoyment. Hand-set in 12 point Caslon old style and printed two pages at a time on Hurlbut Cortlea antique paper with an 8 x 12 foot-press. Marbling executed by the printer. Bound by hand at the shop of Mr. M. I. Sochasky." With a black-and-white picture pasted in of the printing press. A reprint of the 1858 edition, this contains a check list of the locations and bibliographical information of the 11 known copies of the original edition. A black-and-white portrait of the author as the frontispiece. With a printer's note by Reid and introduction by W. Kaye Lamb. Also contains the prospectus on the same size, stiff paper wrappers, printed in 1950, with a message concerning the production of the book on the cover, a facsimile of the original title-cover, information about the original edition written by Reid, and facsimiles of various pages that are "printed from the same type that was used in the book and are on the same make of paper in the actual page size". Fore-edges of slipcase sunned, leather spine slightly faded at head and foot. Remarkable edition.

8vo., quarter leather, marbled paper-covered boards, felt slipcase. (ii) xvi, 93, (7) pages.

[KW: PRIVATE PRESS & FINE PRINTING, TWENTIETH CENTURY CANADA REID, ROBERT R. LAMB, W. KAYE FACSIMILES, NINETEENTH CENTURY]

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Loy, William E. (edited by Alastair M. Johnston and Stephen O. Saxe): NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN DESIGNERS AND ENGRAVERS OF TYPE. New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2009
New technology, such as electrotyping, the pantograph and router, introduced in the middle of the nineteenth century, combined with the expansion of commerce as America moved westward, created a great outpouring of exuberantly ornamented typefaces. Though these "Victorian" faces have moved in and out of favor, many of them have great charm and usefulness. They were produced in conditions of a commercial free-for-all, even outright piracy, not unlike the "desktop font" boom of the 1990s. While many Victorian types have been revived by digital foundries, their sheer number has intimidated historians unable to establish their true origins. In 1896 William E. Loy, a San Francisco printing equipment salesman and scholar, had the idea of writing a series of profiles of type designers. Loy took a long view of history, and realized that it was important to document the men in the background who created the nineteenth century's fanciful types, even as the furiously competing type foundries got the credit for introducing them to the printing trade. His work was serialized in The Inland Printer over the next three years and included biographies, photographs of the artists, and lists of the type they had designed or cut, which Loy had painstakingly compiled through correspondence with the type founders and other craftsmen. Unfortunately, due to the technical limitations of a monthly periodical, it was not possible to show the typefaces mentioned. Finally here is the work as Loy envisioned it, with over 800 illustrations of typefaces designed by the craftsmen he discusses. Here, written by a man who knew many of the designers and engravers, is the behind-the-scenes story: biographies of men - artists, sportsmen, blacksmiths, soldiers, even a game warden - who were the creators of these innovative types. Loy traces their personal stories adding much incidental detail about the politics & business practices of the time and the innovations of each of these thirty men. Now, a century later, typographical historians Alastair Johnston and Stephen Saxe have realized Loy's vision, fully illustrated and annotated. This is one of the first reference books on nineteenth-century American type design, and as such is an important addition to typographical history. William E. Loy (1847-1906) grew up in the Midwest and moved to California in 1874. He worked as a newspaperman, printer and printing equipment salesman. He was associated with Nelson Crocker Hawks at the Pacific Type Foundry in San Francisco, before branching out on his own. His vast typographical library formed the core of the Kemble Collection now at the California Historical Society. Stephen O. Saxe is the author of American Iron Hand Presses (Oak Knoll & The British Library, 1995); he annotated the revised edition of Annenberg's Typefoundries of America and their Catalogs (Oak Knoll & The British Library, 2000). A graduate of Harvard and Yale, he was a stage and television scenic designer before he became interested in printing history. Alastair Johnston is the author of Alphabets to Order: the Literature of Nineteenth-Century Typefounders' Specimens (Oak Knoll & The British Library, 2000). A co-founder of Poltroon Press, he has taught at the University of California since 1979. He also teaches book arts in public elementary schools. He is currently writing a biography of Richard Austin, the English type cutter, and his son the wood-engraver.

9 x 12 inches, hardcover, dust jacket. 164 pages.

[KW: 9781584562610 BOOK DESIGN, NINETEENTH CENTURY UNITED STATES TYPE SPECIMENS, NINETEENTH CENTURY BIOGRAPHY, NINETEENTH CENTURY OAK KNOLL PRESS NEW]

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