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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 102 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.26 inches. In Stock.

Limited edition of 300 copies, of which this is No. 20. James and Cecil Johnson of the Windsor Press were born in Sydney in 1897 and 1900 respectively. The two brothers were in Canada when war broke out and served with the Canadian forces in France. After the war they established the Windsor Press in San Francisco, 1924, James the typographer, pressman, and sometimes author; Cecil, formerly an engineer, is the business manager. Both are authorities on typography and printing. in 1934 the Press received an order for their complete works from the National Library Peking, China. It is one of the presses of the California School of printing, its forte being small gem like books. Slim quarto, original quarter cloth, frontispiece, photo plates; extremities of boards show slight wear, nonetheless a very good copy from the Ingleton collection.

ANGELO, Valenti (illustrator). Limited Edition. With a delicate decorated frontispiece by Valenti Angelo. Edition of 150 copies. Slim octavo, original papered boards, old bookseller's stamp on front endpaper, a near-fine copy of an elegant production.

LINKS, Julian (illustrator). Numbered limited edition of 225 copies signed by the author, of which this is number 88. The Ackymals is one of Williamson's short, standalone pieces of fiction from a prolific body of work that extends to well over fifty titles. James and Cecil Johnson of the Windsor Press were born in Sydney in 1897 and 1900 respectively. After serving in the First World War they established the Windsor Press in San Francisco. Slim octavo; 24pp, original decorated papered boards with gilt title on cloth spine, fore and bottom edges uncut, a fine copy in slipcase showing mild wear.