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RARE 1980 Burke PRINTING POETRY WORKBOOK IN TYPOGRAPHIC REIFICATION Scarab Press

RARE 1980 Burke PRINTING POETRY WORKBOOK IN TYPOGRAPHIC REIFICATION Scarab Press
RARE 1980 Burke PRINTING POETRY WORKBOOK IN TYPOGRAPHIC REIFICATION Scarab Press
RARE 1980 Burke PRINTING POETRY WORKBOOK IN TYPOGRAPHIC REIFICATION Scarab Press
RARE 1980 Burke PRINTING POETRY WORKBOOK IN TYPOGRAPHIC REIFICATION Scarab Press
RARE 1980 Burke PRINTING POETRY WORKBOOK IN TYPOGRAPHIC REIFICATION Scarab Press
RARE 1980 Burke PRINTING POETRY WORKBOOK IN TYPOGRAPHIC REIFICATION Scarab Press
RARE 1980 Burke PRINTING POETRY WORKBOOK IN TYPOGRAPHIC REIFICATION Scarab Press
RARE 1980 Burke PRINTING POETRY WORKBOOK IN TYPOGRAPHIC REIFICATION Scarab Press
RARE 1980 Burke PRINTING POETRY WORKBOOK IN TYPOGRAPHIC REIFICATION Scarab Press

RARE 1980 Burke PRINTING POETRY WORKBOOK IN TYPOGRAPHIC REIFICATION Scarab Press
As part of a large collection of “books about books” and the history of printing, typography, leaf books, fine press books, marbling, parchment and paper, book-binding and book collecting, and the book arts, we offer here one of the finest books in our stock. Printing Poetry: A Workbook in Typographic Reification. San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1980. First printing; first state dust jacket. Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press continued the San Francisco Bay Area fine printing edition, following in the footsteps of Jack Stauffacher, Adrian Wilson, and others. Blue cloth over decorative boards. Exterior and interior fresh and clean. A fine copy in near fine first-state dust jacket. Jacket has 1/4 inch tear near top of spine. One of 2,000 copies designed and printed by Clifford Burke, al. Though at least half of the copies were destroyed. This key reference book explains the mechanics of letterpress printing, design fundamentals, paper, ink and binding, etc. Illustrated with examples throughout printed in brick red. Many copies were lost or destroyed; the few that survived were often encased in a second-state dust-jacket. PLEASE SEE OUR “OTHER ITEMS” FOR MORE FINE PRESS BOOKS, LEAF BOOKS, AND BOOKS ON HISTORY OF PRINTING AND TYPOGRAPHY. The item “RARE 1980 Burke PRINTING POETRY WORKBOOK IN TYPOGRAPHIC REIFICATION Scarab Press” is in sale since Monday, December 14, 2020. This item is in the category “Books & Magazines\Antiquarian & Collectible”. The seller is “dance_collector” and is located in Lexington, Virginia. This item can be shipped worldwide.
  • Year Printed: 1980
  • Modified Item: No
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Topic: Printing Poetry / Typography
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Region: North America
  • Author: Clifford Burke
  • Subject: History of Printing
  • Personalized: No
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Language: English
  • Signed: No
  • Publisher: Scarab Press
  • Place of Publication: San Francisco, California
  • Special Attributes: 1st Edition

RARE 1980 Burke PRINTING POETRY WORKBOOK IN TYPOGRAPHIC REIFICATION Scarab Press