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Children's, Illustrated & Miniature Books
1:00 PM PT - Dec 11th, 2008

 

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Lot 3114 save

Franklin Way to Wealth with Preissig frontispiece

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Title: The Way to Wealth: The Preface to Poor Richard's Almanack for the Year 1758 written under the name of Richard Saunders
Author: Franklin, Benjamin
Description: With the Essay on Poor Richard's Philosophy by Phillips Russell. Color frontispiece by Rojtech Preissig. 15¼x11½, cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. No. 85 of 390 copies printed in the new Preissig type, on J.W. Zanders hand-made special paper, by the State Printing Office at Prague, Czechoslovakia.Signed by Preissig in the colophon.
Heading: (Preissig, Vojtech)Place Published: New York
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: [1930]

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A few nicks to spine label, a bit of soiling to boards; very good.

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