Robert dickover (12 Ergebnisse)

Wrappers. Zustand: Very Good. The Book Club of California, Published 2006. Wraps, xvii, 38 pp.; 21 x 26 cm oblong; illustrated with black-and-white and color reproductions of California bookplates. In Very Good condition. Orange wrappers, with a small nick to the top edge at the front corner and mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. The Book Club of California's 2006 membership keepsake, compiled by Robert Dickover, reproducing California ex libris (bookplates) drawn largely from the Club's own exhibitions of 1913, 1953, and 2002 together with plates from other private and institutional collections. An introduction traces the history of the bookplate from Durer and the old Mexican fire marks forward, followed by eighty-one plates with commentary, arranged by owner, among them General Mariano Vallejo (the first bookplate printed in California), Phoebe and William Randolph Hearst, James Strohn Copley, David O. Selznick, W. Atlee Burpee, and film director George Cukor. Designed and printed by fine-press printer Peter Rutledge Koch with Jonathan Gerken, the text set in a special letterpress version of Giovanni Mardersteig's Dante with Greco Adornado and Rialto Italic for display, color offset by Creative-Litho, bound by Taurus Bookbindery. Dedicated to book collector Michael Harrison (1897-2005).…

Wrappers. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Illlustrated (illustrator).

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Stiff orange wrappers printed in red and black, small landscape 4to., xvii, (1), 38, (1) pages, illustrated. Designed and printed by Peter Rutledge Koch. A near fine copy with a bump to the spine.

paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Unread. No markings in book. Binding is fine. 38pp.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No jacket. Designed and printed for the Book Club of California by Peter Koch with the assistance of Jonathan Gerken.

Paperback. 38p., wraps, very good condition, 10x8 inches, illustrated of course, with a number rubricated for this edition (for colors other than red, the captions merely inform us). Review: George Cukor's, a Landacre wood-engraving, is one of the standouts; there are many. And some are just fun.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. A fine softcover copy in its original quarter leather slipcase. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. All books are wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #506.

Soft cover. Zustand: Collectible-Fine. Original publisher's orange wrappers. 10" x 8." Thirty-eight pages, complete. Illustrations in black and white and color, complete. Most of the illustrations are in black and white. Colophon in the back: "California Bookplates was designed and printed for the Book Club of California by Peter Rutledge Koch with the assistance of Jonathan Gerken. Color offset printing by the Creative-Litho and bound by Taurus Bookbindery. The typefaces are a special interpress version of the Giovanni Mardersteig's Dante for the text with Greco Adornado and Rialto Italic for display." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Light sunning and offsetting and a few almost imperceptible scratch marks on front cover. A small dampstain on back cover. A Fine copy. Excerpt from the Introduction: "The 2005 keepsake of The Book club of California is a response to the continuing widespread interest in and, indeed, fascination with bookplates. The universe of the subject matter of bookplates is immense, and the number of them put into use or collected in the more than five centuries of their existence in the Western world is great. In order to make the task of putting this keepsake together manageable, the initiator of the project decided to restrict the bookplates illustrated in the keepsake to those that were in the exhibits of The Book Club of California of 1913, 1953, and 2002.".…

Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Letter from Book Club laid in. Fine copy. As new. 39 pps.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. First edition. xvii, [1], 38 pp., illustrated, oblong printed wrappers. With envelope containing 9 original bookplates laid in Printed by Peter Rutledge Koch.

First Edition. Keepsake in slipcase. Very Good condition.

LeatherBound. Zustand: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 126. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1971 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 126.…