Books Are Still For Sale

Los Angeles, CA: (Privately Reprinted for Lawrence Clark Powell by Wm. M. Cheney), 1956.

Pamphlet. 4 5/8 x 3 1/16 inches. (12) pp. Typographic ornaments as rules on title page and colophon; text clean, unmarked. Brown printed wrappers, stitched; binding tight, corners bumped, spot on front cover, light fading to wraps. SCARCE. GK923-001. Good.

LIMITED EDITION of 190 copies privately reprinted from the Saturday Review of Literature. The text in this volume makes the case for owning and reading books. Any kind of book. Just the type of enthusiastic endorsement of books and reading that Powell was so enthusiastic about. But Cheney gives the text a beautiful treatment worthy of a culture that seems to be fading away day by day. August Frugé was the longtime director of the University of California Press who broke new ground by expanding the book list beyond academic works to include titles about nature, history, and literature for a broader audience.

REFERENCE: Jones, A Los Angeles Typesticker, No. 42.