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Id: 447
Title: Strictly Amateur: A Personalized Manual of Bookbinding
Author: Rather,Lois and Clif Rather
Publisher: The Rather Press
City: Oakland
Date: 1971
Subject: Manual
Pages: [6], 27, [8, last is rear paste down]
Size: 22.5x17
Binding: Hand sewn on tapes; cloth quarter binding with paper over boards
Edition: First
Annotations: Something of a manual à clef for Bay Area bibliophiles; the Rathers, amateur hand printers, were introduced to bookbinding by Jane Grabhorn and helped by other noted San Francisco printers of the time, and managed at the expense of much labor and time to make a binding for this book that is a perfect imitation of a cheap publisher's case of the 1940s. Printed on Stoneheng paper which is breaking at the folds.¶An attractive amateur production with cute linoleum block illustrations. Perhaps more attractive than useful.
Condition: Front end paper cracked at hinge; authors' inscription on front free end paper; stain on front cover
Contributors:
Illustrations: Linoleum cuts and diagrams.
Illustrators: linocuts by Lois Rather
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Reference Info:
Inventory Id: 7220
Quantity: 1