[Rarebooks] FS: W.A. Dwiggins -Southworth Press Prospectus

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Southworth Press- W.A. Dwiggins Prospectus

"CONCERNING A BOOK ABOUT W.A.D."  Issued by the Southworth Press, ca.
1930-1933. This is a very interesting small prospectus issued by the
Southworth Press in the early 1930s for a book they planned about (and
more-or-less by) noted book and type designer W.A. Dwiggins. It notes-

“The Southworth Press has undertaken to gather into a volume a
representative collection of the work of W.A. Dwiggins. It is proper to
preface this announcement with the statement that the scheme for such a
collection did not originate with Mr. Dwiggins. It is altogether a
Southworth Press idea. Having taken form in the council of the Press, the
project was put before Mr. Dwiggins. His rejoinder was that albums of this
character, summarizing an artist’s work, appear more gracefully after the
artist is dead and done with. The Press, in rebuttal, explained that the
proposal was not to undertake a definitive catalog of all his labors, but
to assemble a kind of running commentary on the work he was doing. Mr.
Dwiggins then said that if the plan of campaign could be modified to make
the collection a gallery of the kind of things he liked best to do, then
the scheme might march; that such a format, taken together with the fact
that the volume proposed to have its office of publication in Portland,
Maine and at the Southworth Press, would dissipate any reluctance that he
might naturally feel. The Press was glad to admit this modification which
was, in fact, no modification of its original plan at all, since that was
precisely what it wanted to do.”

Softcover. 4”x6.5”, 5 pages and 1 illustration, apparently by Dwiggins
himself, of a “Sentry at Cedar Hill”, showing a man with a walking stick
and two huge listening devices strapped to each side of his head;
wrap-around orange covers. A very nice, clean copy of a scarce and
interesting item. $50.00

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