[Rarebooks] FS: Winterich, Early American Books & Printing, SIGNED

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WINTERICH, JOHN TRACY (1891-1970). 

_Early American Books & Printing._ 

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press
Cambridge, 1935. 

8vo. 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches. [xii], (357) pp. Frontispiece, printer's
device on title page in red, 11 plates, index, list of subscribers; text
clean, unmarked. Red cloth, black leather spine label titled in gilt,
top edge gilt, fore- and bottom-edges untrimmed, original slip case with
printed paper spine label; binding square and tight, spine lightly
faded, some rubbing to the cloth covers, slip case rubbed with some
cracks at the joints. SIGNED by the author. Very Good. 

$ 50 

LIMITED EDITION of 350 numbered copies, this is number 128 SIGNED by the
author on the limitation page. John Winterich was a prominent American
Bibliophile in the first half of the twentieth century. He was best
known as a contributing editor of the _Saturday Review_, a position he
held until 1946. In the 1930s, he was editor of _The Colophon_. The list
of subscribers to this work include a number of university libraries,
book clubs, and Los Angeles book sellers Dawson's and Jake Zeitlin. 

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