Hardcover. Half-cloth & paper boards. 100 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait by Eric Gill and map of Pimlico Wharf, also by Gill. Also includes Gill’s broadside, “Three Inscriptions for a Printing Office” (1932-1940), as a call to fight for freedom, set in his type design. Printed for Friends of Freedom by the Typophiles, as Typophile Chap Book, no. 5, and intended as a rallying cry to mobilize American public opinion for going to the aid of Britain prior to US entry into World War II. (The book was published in March, 1941.) Proceeds from the sale of the book went to bombed out and distressed children in England. Introduction by the author’s mother and well-known American writer of introductions to children’s books, May Lamberton Becker. Inscription on front free endpaper; small sketches of hospitalized British children pasted onto front pastedown and front free endpaper; rear endpapers covered with contemporary reviews neatly cut and pasted; extremities rubbed. #364/850. This may be a presentation copy. The inscription reads: “May Lamberton Becker proud to represent her daughter BW” (Beatrice Warde). Unfortunately we have been unable to verify Becker’s autograph. We also suspect that the two sketches pasted onto the fornt endpapers were part of the presentation, aimed at raising money for hospitalized children, and not a later addition by the previous owner.
Book ID: 25135
Bombed But Unbeaten: Excerpts from the War Commentary of Beatrice L. Warde
Warde, Beatrice L.
N. Y.: Typophiles, 1941. Limited/Numbered. Hardcover. Very Good.
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Hardcover. Half-cloth & paper boards. 100 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait by Eric Gill and map of Pimlico Wharf, also by Gill. Also includes Gill’s broadside, “Three Inscriptions for a Printing Office” (1932-1940), as a call to fight for freedom, set in his type design. Printed for Friends of Freedom by the Typophiles, as Typophile Chap Book, no. 5, and intended as a rallying cry to mobilize American public opinion for going to the aid of Britain prior to US entry into World War II. (The book was published in March, 1941.) Proceeds from the sale of the book went to bombed out and distressed children in England. Introduction by the author’s mother and well-known American writer of introductions to children’s books, May Lamberton Becker. Inscription on front free endpaper; small sketches of hospitalized British children pasted onto front pastedown and front free endpaper; rear endpapers covered with contemporary reviews neatly cut and pasted; extremities rubbed. #364/850. This may be a presentation copy. The inscription reads: “May Lamberton Becker proud to represent her daughter BW” (Beatrice Warde). Unfortunately we have been unable to verify Becker’s autograph. We also suspect that the two sketches pasted onto the fornt endpapers were part of the presentation, aimed at raising money for hospitalized children, and not a later addition by the previous owner.