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Lot 153

Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021 10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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The Colophon. A Book Collectors' Quarterly. New York: The Colophon Ltd., 1930-1940, 1948-1950.


89 volumes, 4to and 8vo.  A complete set of The Colophon, 1930-1335, 35 volumes comprising the complete run of Volumes I-XX and additional duplicates of several vols.; complete set of The New Series, 1935-1938, 37 volumes comprising the complete run of 12 volumes and additional duplicates of several vols.; a near complete set of The New Graphic Series, 1939-1940, 5 volumes (lacking vol.III with duplicates of vols.I-II); complete set of The New Colophon, 1948-1950, 12 volumes comprising the complete run of 8 volumes and additional duplicates. Original printed boards or cloth (slight toning and soiling, light rubbing to extremities); several vols. with original glassines (some tearing with loss). Publisher’s ephemera laid in. 
 
FIRST EDITIONS, a near complete run of the periodical including the often lacking color drypoint etching entitled “Hilltop” SIGNED BY DAVID B. MILNE in pencil lower margin in The Colophon First Series vol.V and the color woodcut print “An Eagle Ceremony at Tesuque Pueblo” by Gustave Baumann in The Colophon First Series vol.XII. 
 
[With:] 
 
Index. The Colophon. 1930-1935. Volumes I, II, III, IV, V. Twenty Parts. New York: The Colophon, 1935. 2 copies. 8vo. Original publisher’s blue cloth gilt; original glassine. -- The Annual of Bookmaking 1927-1937. New York: Pynson Printers, 1938. 4to. Original publisher’s cloth stamped in silver and black (slight darkening to spine). FIRST EDITION. -- The New Colophon, A Book-Collectors’ Miscellany. New York: Duschnes Crawford, Inc., 1950. 2 copies. 8vo. Original publisher’s pictorial cloth; original glassine to 1 copy (some tearing with loss). Provenance: M.L. Biscotti (bookplate). -- Index. The Colophon. 1930-1935. Volumes I, II, III, IV, V. Twenty Parts. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Reprint Corp., 1967. Publisher’s blue cloth.


Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher

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