[Rarebooks] FS: McMurtrie PROOF SHEETS ... OF KENTUCKY IMPRINTS signed

[Kaaterskill Books]

We offer for Sale:

One of only 25 copies:

McMurtrie, Douglas C. PROOF SHEETS OF A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF KENTUCKY 
IMPRINTS 1787-1822. UNREVISED. PRINTED AS MANUSCRIPT SUBJECT TO 
CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS. Chicago: Printed by Havelock McMurtrie. 
1932 [i.e. 1934]. Unpaged [116 leaves]. Narrow 4to. Red paper 
wrappers. First edition. Signed by the author on the first blank.. 
Printed in October 1934, though the original had been set in type in 
1931-32 with a title page dated 1932. Printed rectos only. 681 items 
described in detail.

Douglas McMurtrie (1897-1944), typographer and bibliographer, was a 
prolific author and editor of the national Works Progress 
Administration project known as the American Imprints Inventory. 
Scarce. Only seven or fewer copies are still in private hands. 
Wrappers chipped mainly at the spine ends, else a very good copy, a 
few leaves creased at the corners; text clean and unmarked, binding 
solid.  [32787] $400.00 

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