Walter Klinefelter—A Small Display of Old Maps & Plans—Ltd Ed HC

Description: History, Stamps, Philately, Maps, Cartography • For Your Consideration: • A Limited FIRST Edition in HARDCOVER—with 20 Vintage POSTAGE STAMPS—of: • “A SMALL DISPLAY OF OLD MAPS AND PLANS”(The Prairie Press, 1962) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing) • BY WALTER KLINEFELTER • ABOUT THIS TITLE: • “A map of artistic composition may also be considered a fine print, and in postal design the collector will find many superb examples of this form of representation. Among them are a comparatively small number that hold a special fascination. They are those stamps whose designs reproduce, or call to mind, maps that were executed in the days of exploration and discovery, and plans that were drawn for the establishment of towns and the building of fortifications. Anyone who has had his enjoyment of a volume of history increased immeasurably because of the inclusion therein of old contemporary maps and plans will take delight in the small collection presented here.” —FROM THE FOREWORD • “This book has been designed and printed by CARROLL COLEMAN at THE PRAIRIE PRESS in Iowa City, Iowa. The type is hand set Bulmer and the paper is Alexandra. The edition is limited to five hundred and fifty copies.”—PUBLISHER’S COLOPHON • “One of the more uncommon of WALTER KLEINFELTER’s marvelous books on maps on stamps. Limited to 550 copies, this copy has the original Fort Ticonderoga stamp from 1955 as a pastedown for the frontispiece.”—ALCUIN BOOKS (WEBSITE) • ABOUT THE POSTAGE STAMPS IN THIS BOOK: • There are 33 spaces in the book to glue-in stamps that are discussed in this book. Twenty stamps have already been collected & glued-in; thirteen spaces are blank. (Please see the photo of the handwritten note for a list of the thirteen stamps missing from this copy.) • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “A SMALL DISPLAY OF OLD PLANS AND MAPS” AUTHOR: WALTER KLINEFELTER ILLUSTRATIONS: WITH 20 POSTAGE STAMPS (with 13 MISSING STAMPS) TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: The Prairie Press (Iowa City, Iowa), 1962 EDITION: First Limited Edition, First Printing* *RE: See Publisher’s Colophon (above). NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy. SIZE: 4.5 x 6.5 x .5 (INCHES) PAGES: 80+ ISBN: N/A (Pre-ISBN) CONDITION OF THE BOOK: VERY GOOD. (This copy is missing its Dust Jacket.) Book is firm with a slightly bowed (turned upward) fore edge. Boards are clean with light fading around the edges. Corners are bumped. Spine is moderately tight with bumped tips. Text-block edges are moderately age-toned. An inscription, in blue ink, appears on the front free endpaper. There are 33 spaces in the book to glue-in stamps. 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