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Original Etched Printing Plates for 1st Edition Book Covers: T.S. Eliot & others

$ 950.4

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Condition: Used
  • Brand: Unbranded
  • MPN: Does Not Apply
  • Model: N/A
  • Plate Type: Conventional 1-sided Negative Printing Plate
  • Modified Item: No
  • Custom Bundle: No
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Material: Metal

    Description

    Original printing plates for first edition book covers and copyright pages published by Harcourt Brace & Company (later HBJ).  All in excellent condition.  There is one corner missing from the 1984 plate but no other damage.  All mounted together on wood backing.  The photos of the books themselves are just for reference.  This listing is for the plates only.
    Covers:
    1. T
    echnics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford, 1934 edition
    2. An Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens, 1931 edition
    Interior copyright pages:
    1. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, 1949 edition
    2. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, 1950 edition
    3. Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty, 1945 edition
    4. The Cocktail Party by T. S. Eliot, 1950, First American Edition
    5. The American Songbag, by Carl Sandburg, 1927 edition
    6. Listen! the Wind by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1938 edition