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C. D. Reimers Bookplates.

Fort Worth, Texas: C. D. Reimers Bookplate Co., 1931. 16mo (6.25” x 4.625”), stapled tan wrappers printed in orange, gold and black. [52] pp., 33 pp. numbered designs. Three sample bookplates tipped in to inside of front cover. CONDITION: Very good, strips of toning to front wrapper, one leaf dog-eared.

A rare trade catalog of Depression-era bookplates offered in a variety of styles and typefaces, for all readers, young and old.

Examples include classical Egyptian and Greek figures, aviation and frontiersman-themed bookplates, images of laborers, a young boy dressed as a pirate on a ship, a young woman reading, a woman at a spindle, some rich floral and striking geometric designs, and more. The foreword offers an outline of the bookplates and their materials, especially their “full range” of rag stock, which is “the well known Brother Jonathan Bond, the finest of all rag sheets made, so that there will be no deterioration in the years to come. Naturally any of these plates won colored papers will dim if allowed to stand in full sunlight, but who would prop open his cherished books to bring about such a pass?” The volume also includes a “Story of the Bookplate,” from the earliest known example (from 1480, reproduced) to the “recent” resurgence of interest in bookplates: “They are the mark of discrimination and taste.”

Charles Dietrich Reimers (1872–1946) was born in Rock Island Illinois and was a first baseman on the Northwestern University baseball team. After inheriting a fortune from his uncle, Reimers made his career in the publishing industry, first in Iowa and then, beginning in 1902, in Forth Worth, Texas. He ran the Forth Worth Telegram between 1902 and 1909, and became president of several printing and publishing concerns. He was also a noted collector and dealer of coins and stamps.

OCLC locates only two copies, at the Fort Worth Public Library and the University of Queensland. 

Item #6419

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