THE COLOPHON. NEW GRAPHIC SERIES. 4 VOLUME SET plus COLOPHON-RELATED EPHEMERA.

New York: Pynson Printers, 1939. The four volumes of the "New Graphic Series" of the Colophon, 10 5/8" H, pictorial front boards/spines - lacking the original glassine dust jackets. No. 1 - March 1939, 115 pp, with linoleum cut by Hans Alexander Mueller, wood engraving by Emil Ganso and additional illustration by George Cruikshank & Edward A. Wilson, plus articles by George T. Goodspeed (The "First American" Queen Mab), Helen M. Knubel (Alexander Anderson: A Self Portrait); John Carter (Two Beckford Collections); Cedric Larson (Uncle Sam: Printer, Publisher and Literary Sponsor) Anne Lyon Haight (Charles Dickens Tries to Remain Anonymous); et al. No. 2 - June 1939, 107 pp, with woodcut by Dorothy McEntee and additional illustrations by Thomas Nast, Arthur Boyd Houghton and Jack Tinker, plus articles by Edward Robins (Philadelphiana); John Carter (The Library at Dormy House); John A. Kouwenhoven (Th. Nast as We Don't Know Him); Edwin A.R. Rumball-Petre (Some "Historic" Bibles); George L. McKay (Early American Book Auctions); Sinclair Hamilton (Arthur Boyd Houghton and his American Drawings); et al. No. 3 - September 1939, 101 pp, with wood engraving by Thomas Nason and additional illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele, Charles & Marcia Woodbury and Clifton Line, plus articles by Babette Ann Boleman (Deephaven and The Woodburys); Logan Clendening (A Biblographic Account of the Bacon-Shakespeare Controversy); Manning Hawthorne (Nathaniel & Elizabeth Hawthorne, Editors); Leo M. Alpert (Naughty, Naughty!); John Carter (The Library of Frank Hogan at Washington, D.C.); et al. No. 4 - February 1940, [117] pp, with wood cut by Paul Landacre and additional illustrations by Don Freeman and Kurt Werth, plus articles by Jean Hersholt (Hans Andersen Fairy Tales); Bernard Lebovit (A Bibliophile in Rompers); Frank J. Hynes (A Memorandum for Rhodes Scholars; Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt (English Illustrators in the Collection of George Arents); Carolyn Wells (On Collecting Whitman); Lawrance Thompson (An Inquirty into the Importance of "Boston Prize Poems"); Lawrence Clark Powell (D.H. Lawrence and his Critics); et al. Plus: a group of Colophon-related items dated 1931-1940, including 2 exhibit notices, 5 subscription forms; Announcement of the Third Special Colophon Publication offered to Subscibers MCM XXX III (The City Looking Glass by Robert Montgomery Bird) with order form and addressed envelope laid in; 2 notices (one entitled Fair Warning, dated 1940); 1 questionnaire, 2 newspaper clipping and 5 addressed envelopes in varying sizes. Book No. 1 has a small stain on the front board, one very small corner bump, slight twist to the spine. Book No. 2 has a small area of soiling at the bottom corner of the front board, three pages with a very light small soiling mark in the margin, one illustration page with a very small foxing mark at the fore-edge. Book No. 3 has a small dent on the front edge of the spine and at the bottom edge of the front board, three very small corner bumps, one page has two very faint soiling marks in the margin, two pages have a foxing mark at the fore-edge. Book No. 4 has a previous owner's name and date/place in nk on the front free endpaper, a slight twist to the spine, very small bump and a very small tear at the top/rear of the spine. All books are very slightly bowed, very light edge wear and a few tiny edge bumps, very light browning to the edges of the boards and on the spine, light browning to the edges of the text blocks, very light soiling on the rear board. Additional items: the Announcement of the Third Special Colophon Publication.... has scattered foxing - mostly on the front cover and also a few small soft edge creases; the newspaper clippings have moderate browning; all additional items are generally in very good condition.. First Edition (remainder mark).. Hard Cover. Good+/No Dust Jackets. Illus. by Hans Alexander Mueller, Emil Ganso, Dorothy McEntee, Thomas Nason, Paul Landacre, Edward A. Wilson, Jack Tinker, Clifton Line, Kurt Werth, Don Freeman, Thomas Nast, Charles & Marcia Woodbury, George Cruickshank, Arthur Boyd Houghton, Frederic Dorr Steele..