ALASTAIR JOHNSTON - INSCRIBED BOOK SIGNED 06/27/2001 - HFSID 288346
Inscribed copy of his book Alphabets to Order
Book inscribed and signed: "For Jeffrey Thomas,/Dond got me
axcited/with best wishes/from the author/Alastair Johnston/SF 27 vi 01",
8x11¼, 213 pages.
Price: $120.00
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ALASTAIR JOHNSTON
Inscribed copy of his book Alphabets to Order
Book inscribed and signed: "For Jeffrey Thomas,/Dond got me
axcited/with best wishes/from the author/Alastair Johnston/SF 27 vi 01",
8x11¼, 213 pages. Alphabets to Order: the Literature of Nineteenth-Century
Typefounders' Specimens, by Alastair Johnston. Oak Knoll Press, The British
Library, 2000, Hardcover with Dust jacket. Johnston, born in Scotland, a
professor at U-Cal Berkeley, is a connoisseur of 19th century printers' sample
books, which reveal unusual forms of poetry and whimsical humor. Fine
condition
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