The Disappearing City

New York: William Farquhar Payson, 1932. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good +. A very solid copy of the 1932 1st edition, in its uncommon pictorial dustjacket. Tight and VG (fading along the spine, light offsetting at the rear panel) in a crisp, price-clipped, VG+ dustjacket, with several tiny chips and small closed tears along the panel edges. Still though, very presentable. Square octavo, signed on the front flap in light pencil by R. Hunter Middleton, a major figure in modern American typographic history. Middleton was the director of Typeface Design for the Ludlow Typography Company from 1933 until the 1970s and was also a printer, calligrapher and book designer.