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Lot 249

[BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. The Colophon: A Book Collectors? Quart...

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[BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS]. The Colophon: A Book Collectors? Quarterly. New York: The Colophon Ltd., 1930?1950. 44 volumes, 4to and 8vo. Includes a near complete set of The Colophon (first series), 1930?1935, 19 volumes (of 20) lacking volume V; a complete set of The New Series, 1935?1938, 13 volumes comprising the complete run of 12 volumes with a duplicate; a complete set of The New Graphic Series, 1939?1940, 4 volumes; a complete set of The New Colophon, 1948?1950, 8 volumes. Original printed boards or cloth (some toning, light rubbing to extremities); few volumes with original glassines (some tearing with loss). With publisher?s ephemera laid in. FIRST EDITIONS, a near complete run of the periodical including the color woodcut print ?An Eagle Ceremony at Tesuque Pueblo? by Gustave Baumann in The Colophon First Series vol. XII.