Vancouver: Standard Editions / (William Hoffer & The Pulp Press), 1979.
Price: $50.00
Softcover. First edition. Quarto. 11, [1], Sewn blue printed wrappers. Decorative initials, and one leaf of typographic lettering. A bit of faint soiling on front cover at bottom edge, small soil mark on one leaf of text in upper margin, else a near fine copy. He is the author of *The Elements of Typographic Style,* in addition to numerous poetry collections. Limited to 350 numbered copies. Inscribed Bringhurst to poet August Kleinzahler in the year of publication: "for August Kleinzahler, with admiration, Robert Bringhurst. Christmas, 1979" (on the verso of the title page). The author has also made a single ink correction to one leaf of text. Bringhurst is a Canadian poet, typographer, and professor.
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