The American Institute of Graphic Arts, which conducts the annual "50 Book" Show, has recently had its room refitted by Lucien Bernhard and the D. B. Updike exhibit is now on display DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, New York. "Book of Princess Stories," compiled by Kathleen Adams and Frances DOUBLEDAY, DORAN AND COMPANY, Garden City, New York. "Marionettes Masks and Shadows," by Winifred H. Mills and Louise M. Dunn. Illustrated. $3.50. Printed by Country Life Press, Garden City. Designed by Stanley Morrison. Illustrations by Corydon Bell. CROSBY GAIGE, New York. "The Heart's Journey," by Siegfried Sassoon. $10. Printed by Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, Inc., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Designed by Bruce Rogers. GINN AND COMPANY, Boston. "Elements of Machine Design," by James D. Hoffman, M.E., and Lynn A. Scipio, M.E. Illustrated. $3.80. Printed by the Athenaeum Press, Cambridge. Designed by Ginn Technical Division. GRABHORN PRESS, San Francisco. "The Golden Touch," by Nathaniel Hawthorne. $10. Printed by Edwin Grabhorn, San Francisco. Decorations by Valenti Angelo. GROLIER CLUB, New York. "Champ Fleury," by Geofrey Tory. (Translated by George B. Ives.). Illustrated. $75. Printed by Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, Inc., Mt. Vernon, New York. Designed by Bruce Rogers. HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. "Jack Horner's Pie," selected by Lois Lenski. Illustrated. $2.50. Printed by the Haddon Craftsmen, Camden, N. J. Designed by Arthur M. Rushmore. Illustrations, by Lois Lenski. HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, Cambridge. "Francesca Alexander," by Constance Grosvenor Alexander. Illustrated. $7.50. Printed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge. Designed by David T. Pottinger. "Tottel's Miscellany," edited by Hyder Edward Rollins. $5. Printed by Harvard University Press. A line for line, page for page, copy of the original 1557 edition. "Prunes and Prism With Other Odds and Ends," by Charles Hall Grandgent. $7.50. Printed by Harvard University Press. Designed by David T. Pottinger. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, Boston. "The Road to Xanadu," by John Livingston Lowes. Illustrated. $6. Printed by the Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass. DARD HUNTER, Chillicothe, Ohio. "Primitive Papermaking," by Dard Hunter. Illustrated. $75. Printed by Dard Hunter. MARSHALL JONES COMPANY, Boston. "Ruined Abbeys of Great Britain," by Ralph Adams Cram. Illustrated. $5. Printed by Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass. Designed by A. Marshall Jones and William Dana Orcutt. ALFRED A. KNOPF, Inc., New York. "Balzac," by René Benjamin, translated by James Scanlon. Illustrated. $5. "Santander," by E. Allison Peers. Illustrated. $2.50. LANTERN PRESS, San Francisco. "For Whispers and Chants," by Jake Zeitlin. $8. Printed by Edwin Grabhorn. LITTLE, BROWN & Co., Boston. "Books and Bidders," by A. S. W. Rosenbach. Illustrated. $6. Printed by the University Press, Cambridge, Mass. Designed by Miss Daisy Zanck. MACAULAY COMPANY, New York. "The Bronze Treasury," edited by Harry Kemp. MACY-MASIUS, New York. Illustrated. $3.50. "The Horned Shepherd," by Edgar Jepson. Illustrated. $5. Printed by the Plandome Press, New York. Designed by George Macy. Illustrations by Wilfrid Jones. METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York. "Spanish Paintings." Illustrated. 25c. Henry Clay Frick THE MAN BY GEORGE HARVEY New York & London 1928 Title-page of Harvey's "Henry Clay by Scribner JOHN HENRY NASH, San Francisco. "The Unspoken and Other Poems," by Anne Bremer. For private distribution. Printed by John Henry Nash, San Francisco. JOHN J. NEWBEGIN, San Francisco. "Lower Oregon and Upper Cali- OPEN COURT PUBLISHING CO., Chicago. PETER PAUPER PRESS, Larchmont, N. Y. PYNSON PRINTERS, INC., New York. WILLIAM EDWIN RUDGE, Inc., New York win Rudge, Inc., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Designed by Walter M. Patterson. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, New York. "Occasional Verses," by Robert Grant. $2. Printed by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston. "Henry Clay Frick, the Man," by George Harvey. Illustrated. $5. Printed by Printing House of William Edwin Rudge, Inc., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. TAYLOR & TAYLOR, San Francisco. "Ramblings in Rhyme," by Kate B. Palmer. For private distribution. Printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, Chicago. "Chineses Paintings," by John C. Ferguson. Illustrated. $12.50. Printed by the University of Chicago Press. Cover and title designed by Chester Crow. "New Essays by Oliver Goldsmith," Collected and edited by Ronald S. Crane. $3. Printed by the University of Chicago Press. Cover, title, etc., designed by Electra Papadopoulos. D. B. UPDIKE, THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS, Boston. "Arnold Green," by Frances M. G. Wayland. Illustrated. 175 copies for private distribution. Printed by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston. "The Higher Citizenship," by Alfred L. Baker. For private distribution. Printed by D. B. Updike, The Merrymount Press, Boston. HAROLD VINAL, Ltd., New York. "Leaven for Loaves," by Frederick Herbert Adler. $2. Printed by VailBallou Press, Binghamton, N. Y. Designed by Robert S. Josephy. WAYSIDE PRESS, Topsfield, Mass. "Arts and Crafts in New Eng- E. WEYHE, New York. "Adolphe Lewisohn Collection of YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, New Haven. "L'Aiglon," by Edmond Rostand, "China and the Occident," by YOUNG & MCCALLISTER, Los Angeles. "History of Warner's Ranch and OCCASIONAL VERSES 1873-1923 BY ROBERT GRANT NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1927 D. B. Updike's title-page for "Occasional Verses" which was printed at the Merrymount Press for. Scribner's WE Women in Publishing Rowe Wright III Blanche W. Knopf 7E give away the length of our residence in New York by being able to remember the Fifth Avenue shops when they were down town. If you can remember when Lord and Taylor's was on Twenty-first Street, you are an old timer indeed. For the land as well as the age of innocence used to be below Twenty-third Street. But times have changed. be smart, shops as well as skirts had gradually to move up, as if, after all, there were something in the German symbolism of the To being gorgeous stuff,-even the first English books, if I remember the treasures of the Bodleian correctly, were rich, decorative affairs. Then somehow, they became mouselike, forbidding, with ugly brown and red cloth covers which made your Blanche Knopf So it has been with books, with their makers and sellers and even with their authors. The days of the haunted bookshops in dingy basements or under stairs are gone, and we visit Pratt's on Sixth Avenue or Leary's in Philadelphia in the same way that we go pilgrimaging to an unchanged German restaurant. At some time, I suppose it was when somber clothing and somber rules of living came in, and we might just as well blame the Puritan for it as anyone, books got made into somber things. Printing began by fingers uncomfortable and with uglier paper and type within. And then one glorious day, we tossed aside our black umbrellas and defied the elements with gay colors, and in the revolution that followed, books became colorful and gay. All of which is irrelevant except to introduce a courageous and delightful woman, who with her husband decided that it was not sacrilege to put up belle lettres in gay and attractive packages, the young Woman who has been in large part responsible for getting books, along with silver pheasants and Dunhill lighters and hats and churches, up on the Fifty-seventh Street plane of progress; in other words who has made the delight of beautiful and interesting books fashionable as well as profitable. It seems only fair now to begin talking about Blanche W. Knopf, vice President of the firm of Alfred A. Knopf, Publishers. |