The Colophon New Series: A Quarterly for Bookmen -- Winter 1936 Vol. 1 No. 3
New York: Pynson Printers, 1936. Hardcover. [317]-480 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Illustrated paper over board. Cover title: The Colophon: A Book Collectors' Quarterly. Title page in red and black. Designed by W.A. Dwiggins. Continuously paginated with vol. 1 no. 2. Contents: The Launching of Bancroft's "Native Races" by Oscar Lewis [re: Hubert Howe Bancroft's Native Races of the Pacific States] -- The St. Mary's City Press: A New Chronology of American Printing by Lawrence C. Wroth -- A Scot in America by Israel B. Kaplan -- Parson Weems's Washington Once More by A. Edward Newton -- The Collier-Chruikshank Punch and Judy by Paul McPharlin -- The Unfamiliar Autocrat by Delancey Ferguson -- Mr. Maude Remonstrates by J. Donald Adams [re: John Maude, author of Visit to the Falls of Niagara in 1800] -- The Path of the Pioneer by Robert P. Eckert, Jr. [re: James Hall, pioneer midwestern author] -- The 1866 Appleton "Alice" by Flodden W. Heron -- Book Collector, Italian, Seventeenth Century by Ethel D. Roberts [re: Padre Aprosio] -- A Packet of News from Eighteenth Century England by Eunice Wead. Advertisements for book-related businesses on pp. 466-480. In Very Good+ Condition: spine slightly sunned; back cover slightly soiled; pages are clean and tight. Very Good +. Item #002514
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