Search Results: bibliography of modern american presses by haas irvin

The Black Cat Press. Used - Very Good. 1935. Hardcover. 8vo. Cloth, no dj. Beige cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 95 numbered pp. + index. Minor shelf wear overall; some sunning to spine. Expected age-toning to text block; endpaper lightly foxed. Else fine. A sound copy with nice, clean internals. Very Good. (Subject: Books on Books).

Chicago: The Black Cat Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. No dust jacket. ; Copy number "xxx" of 300. .

The Black Cat Press. First Edition; First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good+/None. Limited edition, copy number 136. Owner's bookplate on front pastedown.

Chicago, Illinois: Black Cat Press, 1935. Undetermined. fine. 1st edition limited to 300 numbered copies. 95pp. + Index and Colophonpp. Octavo in original brown cloth with gilt lettered spine and label on front, beige endpapers, printed on Worthy Sterling Cream Wove with decoration on title page by Calvin Brazelton. Copy #254/300. fine 1935

Chicago: The Black Cat Press, 1935. 95, [3 - index] pages. Original tan buckram with gilt spine lettering and printed paper cover label. [24 cm.] Spine sun-darkened and with a few small spots and a little speckling, minor foxing to gutters of prelims; about very good. FIRST EDITION. One of 300 copies, this copy unnumbered and stamped "For Review Only" on the colophon. PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER, Norman W. Forgue, on the front free endpaper. The inscription reads: "To J. L. Frazier, with the cordial regard of Norman W. Forgue." The recipient was Julius Leroy Frazier (1885-1966), who wrote and published "Modern Type Display" (1920) and "Type Lore: Popular Types of Today" (1925). Frazier also worked for a time as an associate editor at the Inland Printer Company. Norman W. Forgue (1904-1983) founded the Black Cat Press in 1932. He was responsible for the typographic design of the present volume and collaborated with the author in… Read More

Chicago: The Black Cat Press, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good. Light brown cloth gilt with cover label, 8vo., xi, 15-95, (6) pages. Largely a continuation of Ransom's 1929 bibliography through 1935. One of 300 numbered copies designed and printed by Norman W. Forgue. With the small bookplate and label of Jackson Burke. A better than very good copy with light cover wear, in archival mylar.

Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1935. cloth, paper cover label. Private Press. 8vo. cloth, paper cover label. 95, (7) pages. Introduction by Will Ransom. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies. Largerly an update of Ransom's work on private presses listing new presses and books published after that 1929 work. Minor cover rubbing.

Chicago: Black Cat. 1935. First Edition. Fine in original acetate wrapper; #100/300 copies .

Chicago: Black Cat. 1935. First Edition. Fine in original acetate wrapper; #100/300 copies .

HAAS, Irvin, ed. Bibliography of Modern American Presses. Introduction by Wiill Ransom. Original cloth. Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1935. Limited to 300 copies. Spine a bit darkened. Overall fine.

First edition. 9 1/2' x 6 1/2". Three page introduction by Will Ransom. Three preface by Haas. Original tan gilt stamped cloth. No dust jacket. Very good. 95 pages + index + colophon.
#210 of 300 copies.
Noted Robert Frost collector Earl Bernheimer's copy with his annotations and check marks, and a few comments.
Laid in loose are three letters to Bernheimer relating to presses and poets:
1) Gladys Denny Shultz 1 page, n.d.
2) Paul Engle, Feb. 15, 1948, 1 page.
3) Mark Thompson, April 5, 1948 on Iowa poets 1 full page.