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Johnson, Herbert H (editor) FESTINA LENTE, THE JOURNAL OF THE MELBERT B. CARY, JR. GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION
New York The Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection (1979) 8vo. paper wrappers 16 pages.
Sample Issue, June 1979.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 34493

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Johnston, Alastair ALPHABETS TO ORDER: LITERATURE OF 19TH-CENTURY TYPEFOUNDERS' SPECIMENS
New Castle Oak Knoll Press 2000 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 222 pages.
First edition. This work explores the literature of nineteenth century typefounders Catalogues. Combining typographic scholarship and literary criticism, Alastair Johnston presents and discusses hundreds of examples of texts that show British and North American founders' interests and preoccupations with letter forms. Co-published with The British Library. Illustrated with hundreds of type specimens.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 60132

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(Juniper Press) Harmsen, Tyrus G. JOSEPH ARNOLD FOSTER, PRINTER
Pasadena, CA Juniper Press 1998 12mo. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label vii, 13 pages with 23 pages of type specimens and miscellany, and (2) pages
Limited to 60 copies printed by the author on Barcham Green Georgian paper and 20 on Mohawk, this being one of the 20 on Mohawk. With an introduction and bibliography. Contains 25 type specimens, six pages of different borders, and five pages of miscellany (florets and mignonettes). Laid-in is a sheet by a book shop with a description of this book by the owner.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 101285

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Karch, R. Randolph. HOW TO RECOGNIZE TYPE FACES.
Bloomington, IL McKnight & McKnight Publishing Company (1952) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (iv), 265 pages.
First edition. Illustrates and classifies 1,475 type faces. Indexed. Jacket chipped with small tears. Piece of jacket missing along top edge.
Price: $ 13.00 other currencies Order nr. 109562

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(Kat Ran Press) Hidy, Lance. LANCE HIDY: DESIGNING THE MENTORING STAMP
An artist's commentary on theory, gesture, photography, compostition, color, light , and the typeface Penumbra (Florence MA) Kat Ran Press 2007 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 60 pages
Part of the Kat Ran Essays in Philatelics. First edition. Hidy describes the entire process and evolution of the stamp. This stamp is believed to be, by the post office, the only U.S. stamp with the artwork and typeface designed by the same individual. Many color illustrations, mostly Hidy's work but some of earlier stamps. A very interesting book for those interested in stamp collecting or in graphic design in general.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 99451

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(Kelly-Winterton) Rilke, Rainer Maria DUINO ELEGIES.
Translated by A.S. Kline N.P. n.p. (but Kelly-Winterton) 2006 4to. marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label 43+(1) pages
Limited to an edition of 99 copies, this is the first book printed in a new typeface designed by Jerry Kelly named 'Rilke' after this publication. A long, complex, poem in ten sections. "Into the Elegies Rilke packed - so tightly that no joins are visible anywhere - the entire spiritual existence of his life, using as pegs those aspects of which he had felt as the most important to him - mother, early childhood, animals, love. All these are seen through the prism of a profound religious temperament." (from the introduction).
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 100303

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Kliemann, Horst STUNDENBUCH FÜR LETTERNFREUNDE, BESINNLICHES UND SPITZIGES ÜBER SCHREIBER UND SCHRIFT LESER UND BUCH.
Berlin Linotype GmbH 1954 tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 186, (12) pages.
First edition. Well printed selection of quotes on the book and bookmaking from famous authorities. With an introduction by Ernst Penzoldt. Tear in jacket along spine; jacket age darkened.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 26063

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Knight, Stan HISTORICAL TYPES FROM GUTENBERG TO ASHENDENE.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2012 9 x 12 inches hardcover with dust jacket 104 pages
Historical Types begins in 1454 with Gutenberg's experiments with moveable type and reaches as far as the Fine Press movement at the beginning of the twentieth century. Every historical example shown in the survey is the result of hand-engraved punches, hand-set type, and pages hand-printed sheet by sheet. The book explores every major development in the design of type and includes some (previously) lesser-known designers whose type designs made significant contributions to the craft. The material is divided into sections by historical period and assigned category numbers for easy reference.

The text of the book provides an excellent historical background to the study of type history, but the primary value of this book is its illustrations. Each entry consists of a double-page spread showing three-fold photographic reproductions of the relevant types - a whole page of the book to show context, an actual-size sample to show scale, and a detailed enlargement to show a closer view of the type. All of the digital photographs for Historical Types have been specially commissioned (with special lighting) to show the type samples in a totally new way, with a size, detail, and clarity not seen before. Each set of illustrations is accompanied by a detailed but concise written commentary. The book also includes an extended introduction describing the book and dealing with significant material outside the scope of the commentaries.

Historical Types stands a step above other books on the history of type because of the size and quality of its reproductions and its straightforward and clear exposition. For these reasons, it should soon become a favorite text for teachers and students of type design, as well as anyone interested in the history of the book.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 105522

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Knuttel, Gerard THE LETTER AS A WORK OF ART, OBSERVATIONS AND CONFRONTATIONS WITH CONTEMPORANEOUS EXPRESSIONS OF ART FROM ROMAN TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY.
Amsterdam N.V. Lettergieterij N. Tetterode 1951 small folio cloth. viii, 264 pages.
First edition in English. Issued on the 100th Anniversary of this typefounder. Many full-page plates. Minor rubbing.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 16501

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Koch, Herbert DIE JENAER SCHRIFTGIESSER SEIT DEM JAHRE 1557.
Mainz Gutenberg-Gesellschaft 1956 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 54, (2) pages.
Study of these early type founders with illustrations. Kleiner Druck no.62.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 30788

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Koziubov, G. I. and V.V. Efimov (editors) FOTO-NABORNYE SHRIFTY (PHOTO-TYPESET FONTS).
Razrabtan'i Okdelom Naborn'ikh Shriftob Bnii Poligraficheskogo Mashinostroenii Moscow "Kniga" 1983 4to cloth 175+(1) pages
Text in Russian. Guidebook to Cyrillic alphabet type fonts. Comments by the editors. Illustrated throughout. Some samples from the Latin alphabet.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 108114

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Lane, John DUTCH TYPEFOUNDERS' SPECIMENS FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE KVB AND OTHER COLLECTIONS IN THE AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY LIBRARY WITH HISTORIES OF THE FIRMS REPRESENTED.
Amsterdam De Buitenkant 1998 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 350, (2) pages.
First edition. An important history and bibliography compiled from the collections of Amsterdam University Library. Organized by foundry with historical introductions in English about each firm. Bibliography describes 1852 specimen books. Many entries are annotated in Dutch. Illustrated and indexed.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 56816

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Lawson, Alexander PRINTING TYPES, AN INTRODUCTION.
Boston Beacon Press (1990) 8vo. paper wrappers. (viii), 132 pages.
Revised and expanded edition. A guide to recognition and identification of the meaning of type.
Price: $ 12.00 other currencies Order nr. 32552

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(Leaf Book) Wallis, Lawrence GEORGE W. JONES : PRINTER LAUREATE
(Nottingham/New York) Plough Press / Mark Batty (2004) 8vo. with 4to. portfolio half-leather, marbled paper boards, stiff paper portfolio, all in slipcase (vi), 128 pages
Limited to 45 copies, hand-bound by The Fine Bindery of Wellingborough and containing original samples of George W. Jones' printing. The samples, loosely contained in the separate portfolio, are four leaves from The Canterbury Tales, two leaves from The Georgics of Vergil, two leaves from Two Centuries of Typefounding, one leaf from Pearl, and one leaf from A Calendar for the Year 1923. Also, two copies of the dust jacket for this book are in the portfolio. This book provides the first extensive study of the life and work of George W. Jones and fills a gap in the literature of printing. (Not in Leaf Book - Chalmers). With a printed label mounted on the front pastedown giving the information about this special edition. This label is hand-numbered and signed by the author.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 86854

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Ledoux, Louis V. THE ART OF JAPAN.
New York Japan Society 1927 8vo quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper spine label. 84, (2) pages
Overview of the fine and performing arts in Japan. Tipped-in frontispiece. Bibliography organized by subject. Front board decorated with Buddhist motif. Pencilled inscriptions on back pastedown. Slight tanning throughout text.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 108830

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Legros, L.A. TYPECASTING AND COMPOSING MACHINERY
N.P. n.p. 1908 8vo. cloth pages 1027-1221 followed by plates 32-46
As issued, starts with page 1027. Scarce. Contains 13 tables and 126 figures throughout the book in addition to the plates at the end.
Price: $ 135.00 other currencies Order nr. 109524

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Legros, Lucien Alphonse and John Cameron Grant TYPOGRAPHICAL PRINTING-SURFACES THE TECHNOLOGY AND MECHANISM OF THEIR PRODUCTION.
New York Garland 1980 8vo. cloth. xxiv, 732, (5) pages.
Reprint of the 1916 edition. Berry & Poole in Annals of Printing have described this book as "the most important treatise on type designing, cutting, and casting since Fournier's manual of 1864, with valuable chapters on machine setting." Essential book.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 2527

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Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph MORE THAN GOLD, LEAD HAS CHANGED THE WORLD AND MORE THAN THE LEAD IN THE GUN, THE LEAD IN THE PRINTER'S TYPECASE.
Carson, CA International Printing Museum 2010 Broadside (14 1/2 by 10 inches)
Limited edition of 800. Reproduction of the announcement of Frederic Goudy's latest type design, Italian Oldstyle. Letterpress printed on a Heidelberg Windmill as a keepsake for the attendees of the American Typecasting Fellowship Conference in 2010. Quote of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-99). Original border design by Bruce Rogers.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 109957

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Lieberman, J. Ben TYPE AND TYPEFACES
New Rochelle The Myriade Press (1978) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 142 pages.
Second edition of his Types of Typefaceswhich was originally published in 1968. Jacket missing a corner of back cover.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 3069

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Lieberman, J. Ben TYPE AND TYPEFACES
New Rochelle The Myriade Press (1978) 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 142 pages.
Second edition of his TYPES OF TYPEFACES which was originally published in 1968. Covers soiled.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 23747

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Lieberman, J. Ben TYPE AND TYPEFACES
New Rochelle The Myriade Press (1978) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 142 pages.
This is the second edition of a good introductory, practical, and comprehensive book for beginners who want to learn about the history of type, typefounding and typefaces. Twenty-five chapters cover subjects such as how and why typefaces are different, fifteen great inventions behind typefaces, classifying type, choosing type, and the practical problems of identifying type plus what to do when you have become familiar with type. This work is a great place to begin when one wants to start studying the printed word and working with printing and type.
Lieberman also includes informative and interesting historical
information covering the more specific aspects of the printed word in "The 15 Great Inventions Behind Our Typefaces," which describe the inventions of the book, small letters, silent reading, printing, typefaces, roman type, true type design, numbers, mechanized type production, the type family, evocative printing, the Typorama, cold type, and the possible reinvention of the alphabet. Distributed by Oak Knoll Press.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 47017

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Lieberman, J Ben TYPE AND TYPEFACES
New Rochelle The Myriade Press (1978) 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 142 pages.
Paperback edition. Some rubbing to covers.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 47018

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Lieberman, J. Ben TYPE AND TYPEFACES
New Rochelle The Myriade Press (1978) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 142 pages.
Second edition of his Types of Typefaces which was originally published in 1968. Well Preserved copy.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 73491

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Lieberman, J. Ben TYPES OF TYPEFACES AND HOW TO RECOGNIZE THEM
New York Sterling Publishing Co. (1968) 4to. cloth. 132 pages.
Reprint of the 1967 first edition.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 21978

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Lindegren, Erik VARA BOKSTAVER, TECKNADE OCH TEXTADE ALFABET, BOKTRYCKTYPER, REKLAM-OCCIDENSTRYCKTYPER.
Goteborg Slojdforeningens skola Skolan for bokindustri 1959-60 oblong 8vo. cloth. xv,318, (6) pages.
First edition. Filled with examples of typography, type specimens, illustrations in different colors, etc. Loosely inserted is an English translation of the introduction. Spine faded.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 26917

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