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Achievement / 1st Edition 1920

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Original/Facsimile : Original
Seller Notes : “vg.”
Year Printed : 1920
Language : English
Publisher : Carey Printing Company
Binding : Hardcover
Special Attributes : 1st Edition

Achievement Title: Achievement Publication: New York: Carey Printing Company, 1920 Edition: First edition Description: Hardcover. Folio. 138 (8)pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Title page with vignette and decorative orange border, as are all text pages. Decorative and historiated head- and endpieces, and initials. An in-depth promotion, describing the Carey Publishing House starting with its ideals, followed by the various production settings, e.g. Composing Room, Machine Shop, Bindery Floor, etc. with realistic two-page color illustrations. Includes chapters on ink making, engraving, electrotyping, etc. followed by extraordinary offset reproductions of company products like art gravure printing, two-color printing, three-color printing, four-color printing. Many of the samples here are reproduced courtesy of Vogue, Century Co., Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazar, Grolier society, Haas Brothers, and others. Advertisement for the Carey Type Book with type used in the Composing Room of the Carey Printing company at rear. Binding with minor wear along edges, starting at second to last leaf with small tear on last printed leaf. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. vg. Seller ID: 43953 Subject: Business, Industry We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. Terms All orders ship within two business days. Standard mail is USPS Priority Mail. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund. This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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