Designed by W. A. Dwiggins
Alfred A. Knopf: Quarter Century.
New York: n.p, 1940.
Price: $250.00
About the item
First edition. Small 8vo. Green cloth; printed labels affixed to cover and spine; spine lightly sunned; original glassine dust jacket; chips to front and rear bottom edges; minor additional edge wear; in printed slipcase, as issued; sunned at spine.
Item #368125
A commemorative, limited edition volume celebrating the first 25 years of the Alfred A. Knopf publishing house, featuring short essays by notables such as Carl Van Doren, Willa Cather, H. L. Mencken, Thomas Mann, and B. W. Huebsch, among others, as well as a frontispeice photograph of Alfred Knopf by Carl Van Vechten. Designed by W. A. Dwiggins, and printed by Plimpton Press, "for Alfred Knopf and his friends as a tribute of affection and congratulation from his fellow members of The Book Table"
