The Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler Inventor of the Linotype. A new edition, with added historical notes, based on recent findings. by ELIZABETH HARRIS [INTROD.]./SCHLESINGER, CARL [ED.]

Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: Very Good. Oak Knoll Pr, 1989. 125 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Dust jacket has light general wear. Includes fold-out facsimile copy of first Linotype printed page of the New-York Tribune. Size: 9.1 x 6.5 x 1.1. Biography Books on Books::Other 6221L

Oak Knoll Pr, 1989. Oversized Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good clean tight copy. Double signed, flat signed and inscribed to author. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.

Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1989 2021-07-09. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Bright, sharp copy, no ownership markings, touch of dust-staining to top edge, foldout intact in rear slip. Sharp copy, not clipped.

New Castle:: Oak Knoll Books,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0938768123 . Introduction by Elizabeth Harris. Black and white illustrations. Facsimile reprint of the first newspaper page using Linotype lines in rear pocket. A later printing of this edition. Near fine in a near fine (sun faded along the spine and spine edge of the front panel) dust jacket. .

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 1989. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Frontis., xviii, 125 pp., illus. Researched and edited by Carl Schlesinger, Foreword by Dr. Wolfgang Kummer and with an Introduction by Elizabeth Harris. Oak Knoll Series on the History of the Book. Pocket at rear contains a folded sheet of the New-York Tribune being the first Linotype printing. A fine copy in mildly edgeworn dustjacket.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 1988. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Reprint of the 1898 original. Fine in a near fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Schlesinger.

US: Oak Knoll Pr, 1992. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good. This is a signed special printing of 250 copies of which this is number 40; housed in publisher's original slipcase and with the keepsake page attached and intact. Forest green leather over boards with gilt particulars to spine and gilt particulars in compartment to front board. Pages are clean and unmarked; white bookmarker ribbon attached and intact. Text block has a few small spots of soiling. Boards are clean, bright and unmarked; corners and ends of spine bumped. Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket has light rubbing to front cover and corners. Blue paper-covered slipcase shows light to moderate soiling particuarly to rear board; rubbing to front board.

New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Books, 1992. 3rd edition. Hardcover. Near fine leatherette copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xv, 125 p. ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subjects: Mergenthaler, Ottmar 1854-1899; Typesetting machines History; Inventors United States.

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1989. Hardcover. 0938768123 . A handsome edition in Fine condition housed in a dust-jacket that is Nearly Fine with some edge rubbing ; The biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler, an inventor of the Linotype machine, tells the story of one man's quest to create a typeface that was both beautiful and easy to use. Mergenthaler was a visionary who saw the potential for typesetting to change the way people communicated. His Linotype machine made it possible for journalists, publishers, and others to produce quick and affordable texts.; 8vo; 125 pages; Price? ? ? .

NEw Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1989. New Edition [1st reprinting of the 1898 autobiography]. Hardcover. Good in good dust jacket. Tape residue of previous owner's label at lower spine and on the bottom of front flap, and rep. Compliments card laid in. DJ has some wear, soiling, edge tears and chips.. xviii, 125, [1] p. Illustrations. Reprint of newpaper in pocket at rear board. Bibliography. Index. Introduction by Elizabeth Harris. Foreword by WOlfgang Kummer. This is one of the Oak Knoll Series on the History of the Book. This edition was based on added historical notes based on recent findings. From the dust jacket. : "The year was 1898. Ottmar Mergenthaler, world-famous inventor of the Linotype machine, was dying of tuberculosis. Too weak to hold a pen, the inventor, whose ingenious breakthrough had made possible cheaper and larger newspapers and books, still burned with a desire to tell his life's story to the world. Death would soon take this man, whom millions would some day… Read More