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THE MAKING OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER OF 1928 ... ACCOMPANIED BY AN ORIGINAL LEAF PRINTED ON VELLUM AT THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS
by [Updike, D. B.]: Hutner, Martin
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
[Sandy Hook, CT]: Chiswick Book Shop, 1990.. xvi,75,[1]pp. plus plates. Small folio. Cloth, with gilt-lettered spine label. A properly deaccessioned institutional duplicate with bookplate on front pastedown and two small stamps (all marked 'withdrawn'). Apart from that, a fine copy in matching cloth slipcase. First edition of this study of the competition and circumstances surrounding D.B. Updike's greatest commission. One of 285 copies printed by A. Colish, with typography by Jerry Kelly. This copy has bound in an original vellum leaf from the edition, that being pp.209/210.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- THE MAKING OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER OF 1928 ... ACCOMPANIED BY AN ORIGINAL LEAF PRINTED ON VELLUM AT THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS
- Author
- [Updike, D. B.]: Hutner, Martin
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chiswick Book Shop
- Place of Publication
- [Sandy Hook, CT]
- Date Published
- 1990.
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
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