1931 COLOPHON 4 Books Vol. 2 - First Limited Edition DAVID MILNE signed HILLSIDE

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[PUBLISHER VIGNETTE] The Colophon A BOOK COLLECTORS’ QUARTERLY PART FIVE 1931 Above is the Vol. II, Part 5 title page, plus year. Four limited first edition books — Vol. II of the first series, complete with P arts 5, 6, 7 and 8. Set contains original signed art , numerous illustrations, prints and plates of various kinds, some folding, some mounted, some color. Signed art : 1. Hilltop, by David B. Milne 2. Gardenia, by Victoria Hutson Huntley This set of books contains no previous owner markings or bookplates. Part 8 includes the complete Index for the whole of Vol. II. To search these books see The Colophon Index . Each part limited to 3000 copies. HISTORY: The Colophon was published from 1930 to 1935 in five volumes issued in twenty parts. The New Series was published from 1935 to 1938 in three volumes, twelve parts. The publication continued in variations till 1950. Various printers around the world produced initial series articles on their presses which were then bound by Pynson Printers. The various times and places of printing is why there was no pagination for the first series. CONTENTS: The Colophon, Vol. II 1931 Part Five, March 1. Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem, by Charles W. Chesnutt 2. The Way to Wealth For Indigent Bookmen, by Pierce Butler 3. Hilltop: A Drypoint in Two Colors by David B. Milne — intact, signed in pencil by artist on Fabriano watermark paper — see third listing picture 4. The Early Adventures of “Sister Carrie,” by Theodore Dreiser 5. Daumier, by William M. Ivins, Jr . 6. A Note on Collecting Prospectuses, by Paul Johnston 7. Now It May Be Told, by A. Edward Newton 8. The Work in Book Illustration of Rudolph Ruzicka, by William A. Kittredge 9. William Ernest Henley, by Elizabeth Robins Pennell 10. Marks of the Early Italian Printers, arranged by Frederic W. Goudy Cover & Design on Colophon Page by W. A. Dwiggins Part Six, June 1. An Inquiry into Huckleberry Finn, by Irving S. Underhill 2. Abbey at Franklin Square, by W. A. Rogers 3. The Pacific News, by George L. Harding 4. My First Novels, There Were Two, by Willa Cather 5. Wood Nymphs (linoleum cut), by K. M. Ballantyne 6. The Burns Miniature, by J. De Lancey Ferguson 7. Richard Savage, by Lucy Eugenia Osborne 8. Captain Edward Topham, by Stanley Morison 9. On First Getting Into Print, by A. E. Coppard 10. The Way of the Best Seller, by Lillian Gary Taylor Cover & Design on Colophon Page by T. M. Cleland Part Seven, September 1. The Legion of the Lost, by David A. Randall 2. Stephen Crane, by Vincent Starrett 3. Sunday in Marblehead: Wood Engraving, by Thomas Nason 4. A Footnote to Kipling Bibliography, by Flora B. Livingston 5. My First Year as a Jemisonian, by Frederick Strecker 6. The Golden Cockerel Press, by Robert Gibbings 7. Stevenson’s Annotated Set of Wordsworth, by George S. Hellman 8. Peregrinations and Prospects, by Dard Hunter 9. Thoughts on Half-Titles, by R. W. Chapman 10. The Rare Book Collection of the Library of Congress, by V. Valta Parma 11. Recipes for Writers, by James Branch Cabell 12. A Note to the Audience ( mounted facsimile insert ), by George Bernard Shaw Cover & Design on Colophon Page by Leroy Appleton Part Eight, December 1. The Historical Illustrations in Weems’s Washington, by Randolph G. Adams 2. The Origins of Publishers’ Cloth Binding, by John Carter 3. Biography & Bibliographies, by Joseph Hergesheimer 4. The First Editor of Shakespeare, by Edward Wagenknecht 5. Some Observations on Modern Firsts, by Harry Miller Lydenberg 6. Garde... read more

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