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Abbott, Jacob THE HARPER ESTABLISHMENT.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2001 large 12mo. cloth xx, 5-182 pages
Reprint of first edition which was first printed in 1855. This reprint has a new historical introduction by Joel Myerson and Chris L. Nesmith.The Harper Establishment is the unique story of book publishing at the Harper Publishing Company of New York City. The reader is treated to a virtual tour of a mid-nineteenth century American publisher, department by department. From the time a manuscript arrives at Harper's, through its editing department, typesetting department, and printing department, every facet of Harper's publishing program is described in detail. Includes a section on marbling. This work is a fascinating read for anyone interested in publishing history.
Price: $ 29.95 other currencies Order nr. 117056

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(Adagio Press) Bahr, Leonard F. MISCELLANEA TYPOGRAPHICA, NOTES ON BOOKS AND PRINTING, NUMBER THREE.
(Grosse Pointe, MI The Private Press of Leonard F. Bahr) 1957 large 12mo. stapled booklet in envelope 15+(1) pages
Printed in an edition limited to 475 copies by Leonard F. Bahr at his Adagio Press, for distribution among members of the National Amateur Press Association (Tanner, no. 1). With the essay Some Trends in Recent Trade Book Design. Printed in Weiss roman and italic on white Eagle A Text paper.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 63781

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(Adagio Press) TYPOGRAPHIA I
Harper Woods, MI The Adagio Press 1976 8vo. paper wrappers, mailing envelope. 27 pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 325 numbered and signed copies. Tanner and Alstrom 34. This is a commonplace book of typographic exercises interspersed with notes on printing, typography and the private press.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 6

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(Adagio Press) TYPOGRAPHIA TWO
Harper Woods, MI The Adagio Press 1979 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, mailing envelope. pp.29-60.
Printed in an edition limited to 325 numbered copies. Tanner and Alstrom 37. A continuation of the work presented as Typographia 1. This copy is signed by the private press owner, Leonard Bahr. This is a commonplace book of typographic exercises interspersed with notes on printing, typography and the private press. Signed by Bahr next to limitation statement.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 18

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(ad lib Press) Hopkinson, Francis PLAN FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE ART OF PAPER WAR
Richmond, VA ad lib Press 1990 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages.
Reprint of the 1787 printing that occured in the American Musuem. Limited to 155 numbered copies; this copy is out of series. An article discussing American type faces and American type. Silver, in his THE AMERICAN PRINTER, p.146, says "In an essay printed in 1787 ... (Hopkinson) proposed an improvement in the art of printing, so as to make it expressive not only of the author's narrative, opinions, or arguments, but also of the peculiarities of his temper, the vivacity of his feelings .... Carey printed the essay with each type size displayed when Hopkinson referred to it; a description of a newspaper quarrel begins in long primer, the reply to follow in pica, the next artument in great primer, the retort in double pica, and so on, concluding with five-line pica, which indeed is as far as the art of printing, or a modern quarrel can well go."
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 105321

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(AIGA) Brown, David R. AIGA GRAPHIC DESIGN USA: 2, THE ANNUAL OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GRAPHIC ARTS.
New York Watson-Guptill Publications (1981) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 431 pages.
First edition. Full color design book showing the best work in the fields of covers, illustration, packaging, communication graphics, ads and books.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 40373

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(AIGA) Brown, David R. AIGA GRAPHIC DESIGN USA: 4, THE ANNUAL OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GRAPHIC ARTS.
New York Watson-Guptill Publications (1983) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 431 pages.
First edition. Full color design book showing the best work in the fields of covers, illustration, packaging, communication graphics, ads and books.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 55770

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(AIGA) Smith, C.Ray AIGA GRAPHIC DESIGN USA: 1, THE ANNUAL OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GRAPHIC ARTS.
New York Watson-Guptill Publications (1980) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 423, (5) pages.
First edition. Full color design book showing the best work in the fields of covers, illustration, packaging, communication graphics, ads and books.
Price: $ 23.00 other currencies Order nr. 19987

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(American Antiquarian Society) Gura, Philip F. THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, 1812-2012: A BICENTENNIAL HISTORY.
Worcester, Massachusetts American Antiquarian Society 2012 6.75 x 10 inches hardcover, dust jacket 454 pages
Founded in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1812 by Isaiah Thomas, the patriot printer and leading publisher of the new nation, the American Antiquarian Society reflects his vision for the printed record of America's history-its preservation and its interpretation. Over two centuries, beginning with Thomas's gift of his own extensive library of books and newspapers, this learned society has become widely recognized as a national treasure. The collections are an indispensable resource for everyone interested in studying the United States to 1876. Scholars, artists, and writers benefit from the library collections and its fellowship programs to conduct research resulting in books and other works that frequently earn national awards. The Society also offers lectures, seminars and conferences, programs for teachers, and a rich website for diverse audiences.

This volume traces the development of the library and the role the Society's librarians have played as collectors, scholars of American writing and publishing, and stewards of the nation's history. Readers will meet Isaiah Thomas and his successors at the Society's helm: Christopher Columbus Baldwin, Samuel Foster Haven, Edmund Mills Barton, Clarence Brigham, Clifford K. Shipton, Marcus A. McCorison, and Ellen S. Dunlap. Each has moved the Society forward by deftly matching the institution's needs with local and national developments. The Society celebrates its bicentennial as a leading independent research library, a pioneer in the digitization of its collections, and a center of scholarship for the study of American history and culture.

The American Antiquarian Society-pride and joy of its founder Isaiah Thomas-holds the DNA of our shared national patrimony. On the occasion of its bicentennial, this uniquely American library has published a copiously illustrated history that is at once scholarly in purpose, rich in probing insight, and brimming with narrative detail. While keenly alert to the evolution of the Society, Philip F. Gura's guiding approach has been more finely focused on its intellectual development as a cultural repository of extraordinary consequence, with careful attention given to the people who have shaped and nurtured it into the twenty-first century. The founding spirit of this remarkable institution-a bookman for the ages "touched early by the gentlest of infirmities, bibliomania"-would be mightily pleased, I am certain, with this magisterial tribute to his enduring legacy.
-Nicholas A. Basbanes, author of A World of Letters: Yale University Press, 1908-2008 and A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books.

Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture since 2000, has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1987. Widely recognized for his scholarship, Gura, who first visited the American Antiquarian Society as a reader in 1971, considers his election to membership in 1988 one of his highest honors. He is the author of many books, including American Transcendentalism: A History (2007), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (nonfiction) and Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel (forthcoming in 2013).
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 108979

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(American Antiquarian Society) Gura, Philip F. THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, 1812-2012: A BICENTENNIAL HISTORY.
Worcester, Massachusetts American Antiquarian Society 2012 6.75 x 10 inches hardcover, dust jacket 454 pages
Revised Edition. Founded in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1812 by Isaiah Thomas, the patriot printer and leading publisher of the new nation, the American Antiquarian Society reflects his vision for the printed record of America's history-its preservation and its interpretation. Over two centuries, beginning with Thomas's gift of his own extensive library of books and newspapers, this learned society has become widely recognized as a national treasure. The collections are an indispensable resource for everyone interested in studying the United States to 1876. Scholars, artists, and writers benefit from the library collections and its fellowship programs to conduct research resulting in books and other works that frequently earn national awards. The Society also offers lectures, seminars and conferences, programs for teachers, and a rich website for diverse audiences.

This volume traces the development of the library and the role the Society's librarians have played as collectors, scholars of American writing and publishing, and stewards of the nation's history. Readers will meet Isaiah Thomas and his successors at the Society's helm: Christopher Columbus Baldwin, Samuel Foster Haven, Edmund Mills Barton, Clarence Brigham, Clifford K. Shipton, Marcus A. McCorison, and Ellen S. Dunlap. Each has moved the Society forward by deftly matching the institution's needs with local and national developments. The Society celebrates its bicentennial as a leading independent research library, a pioneer in the digitization of its collections, and a center of scholarship for the study of American history and culture.

The American Antiquarian Society-pride and joy of its founder Isaiah Thomas-holds the DNA of our shared national patrimony. On the occasion of its bicentennial, this uniquely American library has published a copiously illustrated history that is at once scholarly in purpose, rich in probing insight, and brimming with narrative detail. While keenly alert to the evolution of the Society, Philip F. Gura's guiding approach has been more finely focused on its intellectual development as a cultural repository of extraordinary consequence, with careful attention given to the people who have shaped and nurtured it into the twenty-first century. The founding spirit of this remarkable institution-a bookman for the ages "touched early by the gentlest of infirmities, bibliomania"-would be mightily pleased, I am certain, with this magisterial tribute to his enduring legacy.
-Nicholas A. Basbanes, author of A World of Letters: Yale University Press, 1908-2008 and A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books.

Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture since 2000, has taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1987. Widely recognized for his scholarship, Gura, who first visited the American Antiquarian Society as a reader in 1971, considers his election to membership in 1988 one of his highest honors. He is the author of many books, including American Transcendentalism: A History (2007), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (nonfiction) and Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel (forthcoming in 2013).
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 117114

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(Anderson, Alexander) HUXLEY HOUSE ALMANAC FOR 1953.
New York Huxley House 1953 thin 8vo. boards. (44) pages.
Illustrated with engravings by Alexander Anderson, the father of white-line wood engraving in America. Huxley House was a design firm. Covers soiled.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 31812

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Anderson, Frank J. PRINTING FOR PLEASURE: A REPORT ON THE WOFFORD COLLEGE 1969 INTERIM PROJECT #67.
Spartanburg, SC Wofford College Library 1969 4to stiff paper wrappers, spiral bound unpaginated
A report on a seminar-workshop held at Wofford in 1969, which covered the history of early printers and their books, type design, technology and the private press movement. Black and white illustrations. Brochure "The Carolinas Collect," held in 1970 at Wofford, laid in.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 109347

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(Angelo, Valenti) Linden, James TO REMEMBER VALENTI ANGELO, 1897-1982
San Francisco Book Club of California 1982 oblong small 8vo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages.
Limited to 1050 copies and printed by Adrian and Joyce Lancaster Wilson at the Press in Tuscany Alley.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 17945

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Annenberg, Maurice TYPE FOUNDRIES OF AMERICA AND THEIR CATALOGS
Baltimore Maran Printing Services 1975 4to. cloth. (xiv), 245 pages.
First edition, limited to 500 copies. The definitive bibliography to-date of American type specimen books. Includes historical accounts of each company, a list of their specimen books with size and number of pages and illustrations. Lacks jacket.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 11232

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Annenberg, Maurice TYPE FOUNDRIES OF AMERICA AND THEIR CATALOGS
With additions and an introduction by Stephen O. Saxe and an index by Elizabeth K. Lieberman. New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 1994 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 276 pages.
Reprint of the first edition with an added appendix. Recognized by booksellers, collectors, librarians and bibliographers for its great usefulness as the definitive bibliography of American type specimen books. This edition contains an appendix listing 73 type specimen books unknown at the time of the first edition, more than 10 percent of the former total. TYPE FOUNDRIES contains historical accounts of each foundry, a list of their specimen books with size and number of pages and countless tidbits of fascinating historical and typographical information. Oak Knoll's edition has been updated and amended by the well-known printing historian, Stephen O. Saxe. He has added eight appendixes to the book, as well as a four-page introduction and a biographical sketch of the author. In addition, one new type foundry, Abraham Riggs of New York City, has been discovered and is described in a separate appendix. There are also listings of the complete type specimen holdings of the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian Institution and Stephen O. Saxe's personal collection. The appendixes conclude with a list of errata, omissions and duplications in the first edition; and a select bibliography. Also, of the greatest importance, the much-lamented lack of an index has now been corrected through the efforts of Elizabeth Lieberman.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 40614

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(Anthoensen, Fred) IN TRIBUTE TO FRED ANTHOENSEN, MASTER PRINTER
Portland, ME Anthoensen Press 1952 small 8vo. cloth-decorated paper covered boards. x, 142 pages.
Limited to 300 copies. Contains essays by Carl Weber on the Portland Printer, Walter Whitehill on The Iconographic Society, Rudolph Ruzicka on My Anthology, Harold Hugo on The Columbiad Club of Connecticut, With a Bibliography, Lawrence Wroth on The Thomas Johnston Maps of the Kennebeck Purchase, Paul Bennett on Typographic Debut and others. Four page Christmas Greetings from the press loosely inserted. Bookplate of Stuart B. Schimmel.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 19470

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(Anthoensen, Fred) Whitehill, Walter Muir FRED ANTHOENSEN, A LECTURE
New York The Composing Room 1966 8vo. cloth, box with paper label on front. 18 pages followed by a facsimile of a letter from Paul Standard.
First edition, limited to 385 copies. Issued as a Christmas book by the Anthoensen Press and with greetings loosely inserted. Box is faded.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 96

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(Anthoensen, Fred) Whitehill, Walter Muir FRED ANTHOENSEN, A LECTURE.
New York The Composing Room 1966 8vo. cloth. 18 pages followed by a facsimile of a letter from Paul Standard.
First edition, limited to 385 copies. Issued as a Christmas book by the Anthoensen Press and with greetings loosely inserted. Box is faded.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 63449

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(APHA) VERSE INTO TYPE: THE APHA POETRY PORTFOLIO.
New York American Printing History Association 2006 8vo. contributions loosely inserted in cloth clamshell box, paper spine label.
Various typographic arrangements of seventeen poems, both contemporary and classic, using a variety of typefaces, colors, formats, and papers, all printed letterpress. The poems were selected by the printers. Contributors include Mindy Beloff, Robin Price, Sandy Connors, Barbara Henry, Ed Colker, Ron Gordon, David Pankow, Jerry Kelly, Kay Michael Kramer, Michael Peich, Gaylord Shanilec, Jack Stauffacher, Michael Russum and Carolee Campbell. The printed poems are housed in a handmade traycase made by Judi Conant. Limited to 225 copies.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 97456

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Archer, H. Richard and Ward Ritchie MODERN FINE PRINTING
Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 1968 8vo. paper wrappers. (iv), 44 pages.
Contains "The Private Press: Its Essence and Recrudescence" by Archer and "Tradition and the Printers of Southern California" by Ritche.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 108

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Archer, H. Richard and Ward Ritchie MODERN FINE PRINTING
Los Angeles William Andrews Clark Memorial Library 1968 8vo. paper wrappers. (iv), 44 pages.
Contains "The Private Press: Its Essence and Recrudescence" by Archer and "Tradition and the Printers of Southern California" by Ritche. Covers faded.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 108091

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(Archer, Richard H.) THE ENGLISH ART OF THE BOOK.
Exibition, Chapin Library Williams College Williamstown n.p. 1970 8vo. stiff paper wrappers ii, 10 pages
Exibition designed to exploit the Chapin Library's collection of important exmaples in the history of printing produced in various countries. Features a selection of sixty-nine items representative of English printing, 1478-1969, from William Caxton to Stanley Morison. One of 1,500 copies printed in January, 1970. Light shelf wear and soiling around edges.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 98913

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Armitage, Merle NOTES ON MODERN PRINTING
New York Wm. E. Rudge's Sons (1945) square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 74 pages.
First edition. Well illustrated. Contains a check list of books by Armitage. Wrappers chipped.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 38148

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Ashley, Frederick W. IN PRAISE OF PRINT,
N.P. n.p. 1934 small 8vo. paper wrappers. 11 pages.
A glance at the new Rare Book Room of the Library of Congress. A lecture delivered by Frederick W. Ashley before the Washington Club of Printing in 1934.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 57405

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(Associated Printing Salesmen) 1913-1963, 50 YEARS OF PRINTING PROGRESS THROUGH BETTER SELLING.
(N.P. Associated Printing Salesmen 1963) 8vo. boards. (vi), 56 pages.
Illustrated history of this group.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 136

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