Word: folios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...album will be more than just a file for the two classes," the announcement stated. "It will be a record in pictures and words--424 folio pages in all--of Harvard College in war and peace...
...first folio of Shakespeare for which Harry Widener paid $67,000 still sweats it out on the shelf. These two are the only books possessed by the University which are never permitted to be handled...
This is a de luxe anthology written by bookworms for bookworms. The only wolf calls in its pages rise when a bug-eyed bibliomaniac spots an unescorted Gutenberg Bible or First Folio Shakespeare. With the knowingness of a convention of beekeepers discussing the nuptial flight of the queen, 40-odd bibliophiles talk about the designing, the collecting, the stealing and the forging of books. Some of the highlights...
...Shakespeare First Folio copy (there are some 200 of them) went at auction to an anonymous New Yorker last week for $22,000 -a good price, but way below the record...
Forward to Originals. Now in the reprint business "to stay," Ben Zevin plans a full-scale invasion of the "original" field next year (sample: a life of Bing Crosby, by his brother Ted; F.D.R. Speaks, edited by Ben Zevin). Most ambitious project, scheduled for 1947: a 25-lb. folio Bible designed by Bruce Rogers, No. 1 U.S. book designer, to sell for about...