Add this copy of Strum the Chords Blithely to cart. $25.00, like new condition, Sold by Dorothy Meyer-Bookseller rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Batavia, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Patrick Reagh, bound by Bela Blau.
Add this copy of Strum the Chords Blithely to cart. $125.00, very good condition, Sold by Ground Zero Books, Ltd. rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Silver Spring, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Patrick Reagh.
Edition:
Limited Edition, one of only 300 copies printed
Publisher:
Patrick Reagh
Published:
1988
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
13469937724
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Seller's Description:
Todd, J. (illustrations), Rogers, Bruce (Cover Pat. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Nice inscription on fep. [75] p. 22 cm. Illustrations. "Presented to members of the Zamorano-Roxburghe clubs by Edwin M. Todd, San Francisco, October 1 & 2, 1988." "300 copies printed by Patrick Reagh and bound by Bela Blau." From an on-line posting: "Blau is among the last of a kind--a bookbinder who stitches pages together and creates book covers by hand. It's an Old World craft that automation has all but nudged aside. Blau has toiled in her tidy South Broadway shop at the edge of the downtown garment district for a quarter-century. Her work ranges from matchbook-size miniature books that you can lose in your shirt pocket if you are not careful to 2 1/2-foot-wide editions that almost require two people to open and close. Everything is done by hand at her bindery. Book cover fabrics are individually selected and glued to a hard cardboard backing. Titles are stamped from heavy lead type that is set letter by letter. Pages that customers have had printed elsewhere are sewn together and trimmed, one book at a time. Blau and her four employees can set up their own hand assembly line and produce up to 5, 000 copies of a book if a customer needs that many. Especially fancy books with custom-made matching cover boxes can cost up to $1, 500 each."
