ORCUTT, William Dana

In Quest of the Perfect Book

Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1926. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and extensive rules, pictorial dust jacket. 316pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded color frontispiece, numerous full-page plates. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear only. Exceptionally tight 'n' bright first trade edition -- with usually-absent jacket not only present but quite nice. An unusually fresh copy. Orcutt (1870-1953) was the noted author of such bibliophilic classics as "The Magic of the Book: More Reminiscences and Adventures of a Bookman" (1930), "From My Library Walls" (1945), "The Kingdom of Books" (1927), "Celebrities Off Parade" (1935) and similar bookish tomes. .

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Book number: 44158

Catalogue: Books

Keywords: Bibliography & Books About Books

ORCUTT, William Dana

In Quest of the Perfect Book. Reminiscences & Reflections of a Bookman.

London, John Murray 1926, First Edition. Illustrated. Decorated cloth with top edge gilt. In good condition.

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Book number: 66213

William Dana Orcutt

In Quest of the Perfect Book

London, John Murray, 1926. First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of this illustrated exploration of the 'perfect book', by William Dana Orcutt. The first trade edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'In Quest of the Perfect Book' recounts the author's quest to find the perfect book, from working as an apprentice at the University Press of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Italy and beyond.This is a lovely work exploring the beauty of physical books, with anecdotes of the celebrities the author encountered on this quest, such as Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, and Pope Pius XI, and passages on some of the most important works ever printed.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, fifty-seven plates, and in-text illustrations.By book designer and historian William Dana Orcutt. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Only a few very light marks to the boards. Minor edge wear to the dust wrapper. Spine is a little sunned. Price label to the tail of the spine. A couple of light marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Various. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.

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Book number: 907P16

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