11-17-201311-17-2013
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2687BBoston
November 17, 2013 11:00 AMCalender
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The Colophon: a Book Collectors' Quarterly

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$660$550
Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2687BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 17, 2013 11:00AM

Description:

The Colophon: a Book Collectors' Quarterly. New York, 1930-1948.
Forty issues in original boards including a complete run for 1930 through 1934; two issues only for 1935; three issues for 1936 and 1937; and four issues each for 1938, 1939, and 1948; the first five years housed in custom-made chemises and slipcases, the leather dry, damaged, some chemises broken at the joints; all issues good in publisher's boards, some with glassine dust jackets in varying condition: chipped, damaged, fragmentary, and sometimes lacking. (40)
The Colophon was a monument to and celebration of literature, art, and the printing arts, producing a consistently quality publication that survived the Depression and highlighted American fine printing, graphic illustration, type design, paper-making, bibliographic scholarship, and book collecting in the mid-20th century.
Estimate $300-500


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Keywords

printing, printing arts