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(Miniature Books) FRANCISCAN PRAYER.
(Sudbury, MA) Kurbel Books 1988) miniature book (6.3 x 5.5 cm) full red leather with title stamped in gilt on spine, ribbon bookmarker with miniature medallion attached, slide-on paper case. (14) pages printed accordian style.
Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Rev. Joseph L. Curran, the publisher (Bradbury, Kurbel 9). Layout by Robert E. Massmann, printing by Shea Bros., binding executed by Bela & Mariana Blau and calligraphy and hand-illuminating by E. Helene Sherman and Gayle Roberts-Cullen. Ten illuminated, hand-colored pages of text. Mounted postage stamp of Francis of Assisi. With the miniature bookplate of Kathryn Rickard.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 117175

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(Miniature Books) Helbert, Clifford L. ECCE LITTERA, VOL. 1.
Milwaukee ABCDarium 1987 miniature book (3.8 x 5.3 cm) cloth, title stamped on spine and front board unpaginated, accordion folded
Limited to 38 numbered copies (Bradbury, ABCDarium, 1). Commemorates the 50th anniversary of Legend, designed by F.H.E. Schneidler, published in 1937 by Bauer Types. Miniature bookplate of Kathryn Rickard on front pastedown.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 116519

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(Miniature Books) McDowall, Nicolas A BODINI CHARADE.
(Llandogo, UK) Old Stile Press (1995) oblong miniature book (6.1 x 6.7 cm) decorated paper-covered boards unpaginated
Limited to 240 numbered, signed copies. Accordion folded. A whimisical look at the letters of the alphabet in the Bodini typeface.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 117786

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(Miniature Books) Monotype EL ABC DEL APRENDIZ DE BIBLIÓFILO,
N.P. Monotype 1966 miniature book (7.5 x 5.1 cm) stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Text in Spanish, with some examples in French. Specimens of fonts offered by Monotype.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 117694

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(Miniature Books) Monotype EL ABC DEL APRENDIZ DE BIBLIÓFILO,
N.P. Monotype 1966 miniature book (7.5 x 5.1 cm) stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Text in Spanish, with some examples in French. Specimens of fonts offered by Monotype. Vertically folded along middle of wrappers and text.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 117695

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(Miniature Books) ORIENTAL SAYINGS: AN EXERCISE IN USING SMALL TYPES.
(Overland Park, KS) Scott Free Press & Papermill 1987 miniature book (6.0 x 4.9 cm) stiff paper wrappers 30, (6) pages
Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by publisher Duane C. Scott (Bradbury, Scott Free Press 5). Samples of type faces used by Scott. Covers are printed on paper handmade by the press. Small label of private collector in corner of back free endpaper.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 118456

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(Miniature Books) ORIENTAL SAYINGS: AN EXERCISE IN USING SMALL TYPES.
(Overland Park, KS) Scott Free Press & Papermill 1987 miniature book (6.0 x 4.9 cm) stiff paper wrappers 30, (6) pages
Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by publisher Duane C. Scott (Bradbury, Scott Free Press 5). Samples of type faces used by Scott. Covers are printed on paper handmade by the press.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 118159

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(Miniature Books) Pardoe, F.E. IN PRAISE OF JOHN BASKERVILLE, A TRIBUTE.
Wakefield The Fleece Press (1994) miniature book (5.2 x 7.4 cm.) patterned paper-covered boards, paper cover label. (64) pages.
Limited to 260 copies. Printed by hand by Simon Lawrence at his Fleece Press and illustrated by Anthony Christmas.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 40913

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(Miniature Books) Petty, G. Harvey ALPHABETUM ZANIUM.
Skokie, IL Black Cat Press (1976) miniature book (5.2 x 6.9 cm) quarter leather, paper-covered boards 27, (5) pages
Limited to 249 copies. (Bradbury, Black Cat Press 44). Foreword by the author. Whimsical alliterative treatment of the letters of the alphabet, each letter in a different typeface. Index of typefaces. With miniature bookplate of Raymond A. Smith.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 116699

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(Miniature Books) Petty, G. Harvey ALPHABETUM ZANIUM.
Skokie, IL Black Cat Press (1976) miniature book (5.2 x 6.9 cm) quarter leather, paper-covered boards 27, (5) pages
Limited to 249 copies. (Bradbury, Black Cat Press 44). Foreword by the author. Whimsical alliterative treatment of the letters of the alphabet, each letter in a different typeface. Index of typefaces.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 118454

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(Miniature Books) Roberts, Jane W. TYPE SPECIMENS 6 PT. AND UNDER.
(Fitzwilliam, NH Old-Time Printing) n.d. (circa 1987) miniature book (7.4 x 5.8 cm) stiff paper wrappers (iv), 8, (2) pages
Not in Bradbury. Limited to 90 copies. Introductory comments by the author.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 117789

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(Miniature Books) Sherman, E. Helene BEAU-BEAU'S 1 2 3.
(Sudbury, MA Kurbel Books 1984) miniature book (6 x 6 cm) embroidered cloth covers with small metal dog attached to a ribbon as a bookmarker Printed accordian style with 21 leaves.
Limited to 200 numbered copies (Bradbury, Kurbel 4). Art by E. Helene Sherman, Layout by Robert E. Massmann and frontispiece portrait by Fred G. Moynlhan, Jr. Ten stages in this dog's life as told in illustrated pictures with hand-colored numbers. This special edition of this book has a needlework binding hand-made by Gayle Roberts-Cullen and is signed by her, the author and Joseph L. Curran who operated Kurbel Books. This special version has additional pages of illustrations, all illustrations colored by hand, and four extra pages of pasted on 20-cent stamps of dogs.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 117169

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(Miniature Books) SIX & EIGHT POINT TYPE SPECIMENS.
Spartanburg, SC Kitemaug Press 1970 miniature book (6.8 x 3.7 cm) stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Limited to 150 copies (Bradbury, Kitemaug Press 9). With stamp of Kathryn Rickard on inside front wrapper.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 117501

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(Miniature Books) Sperry, Baxter A NEW ALPHABET DESIGNED BY BAXTER SPERRY.
Galt, CA Laurel Hell Press 1980 miniature book (7.0 x 5.6 cm) cloth, decoration stamped on front board unpaginated
Limited to 30 numbered copies (Bradbury, Laurel Hill 2). Introductory comments. The author's first attempt at type design, with the designs illustrated. With miniature bookplate of Kathryn Rickard on front pastedown.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 117513

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(Miniature Books) Yarnell, Jim THE GREATEST OF E'S.
Wichita, KS Oak Park Press 1985 miniature book (7.5 x 6.0 cm) leather, title gilt-stamped on spine, embossed 'E' on front cover unpaginated
Limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by author on colophon (Bradbury, Oak Park 6). Type faces of the letter 'E', with comments of the ancient origins of the letter itself. Illustrations of numerous type faces.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 117778

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Moegreen, Charles and Henry Thejls SKRIFT SKRIFTENS HISTORIE I TEKST OG BILLEDER.
Copenhagen Arnold Busck 1944 4to. cloth 84 pages
Text in Danish. Table of contents. Historical background of printing beginning with prehisoric times, Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Arabian world to the time of Gutenberg. Black and white illustrations throughout. Samples of modern type faces. Schematic overview of the development of modern printing. Specimens of modern widely-used type faces. Spine torn at very top. Boards lightly soiled.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 109807

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(Monotype) PAGES FROM BOOKS SET ON THE "MONOTYPE" COMPOSING MACHINE AND PUBLISHED MAINLY IN LONDON, 1928-1931.
London Monotype Corp. 1931 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (xii), 97, (3) pages.
Another volume of the same title was issued in 1928. Examples of the best typography of the period presented by reprinting pages from books. Shows "35 typefaces revived by Morison (Appleton 288). Jacket shows minor wear around edges.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 37902

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Moran, Bill, Robert Style, Dennis Ichiyama, and Richard Zauft HAMILTON WOOD TYPE: A HISTORY IN HEADLINES
St Paul, MS Blinc Publishing 2004 8.5 x 8.5 stiff paper wrappers 65 pages
Hamilton began producing type in 1880 and within 20 years became the largest provider in the United States. The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, Hamilton's collection is one of the premier wood type collections in the world. In honor of the Museum's fifth anniversary, Blinc Publishing was commissioned to produce a 65 page book outlining the history of the Hamilton Wood Type Company, the importance of wood type to the growth of printing world-wide, and the role the Museum plays in the education of today's design professionals. The book includes a foreword by Jim Sherraden and five chapters on the history of Hamilton as a company and a museum. Well illustrated in full color. Cover is letterpress printed. Distributed for the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 99663

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(Morison, Stanley) Bridges, Robert. THE INFLUENCE OF THE AUDIENCE. CONSIDERATIONS PRELIMINARY TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS.
New York Doubleday, Page & Co. 1926 8vo. printed paper-covered boards, slipcase 23 pages.
With the following as part of the title page "One hundred copies printed for Stanley Morison at the press of Doubleday, Page & Co." "Morison spent a month and a half in America. He got the 'The Influence of the Audience' printed, a neat plain little book set in Caslon, with capitals two sizes smaller than the lower-case letters" - (Barker, Morison, p. 201). A scarce Morison title. Booklabel of the Borough of Maidstone Reference Library with accession number on verso of title, slipcase a little damaged, else a very good copy.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 80064

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Morison, Stanley L' INVENTAIRE DE LA FONDERIE LE BE, SELON LA TRANSCRIPTION DE JEAN PIERRE FOURNIER.
Paris Andre Jammes 1957 square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 30 pages.
First edition, printed in "a small number." (Appleton 206). Documents Typographiques Francais - I. Text is in English. Reproduction for the first time of the inventory of the Le Be foundry as recorded in an 18th century manuscript. With historical comment.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 18303

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Morison, Stanley LETTER FORMS, TYPOGRAPHIC AND SCRIPTORIAL, TWO ESSAYS ON THEIR CLASSIFICATION, HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.
London Nattall & Maurice (1968) small 8vo. boards, dust jacket. xii, 167 pages.
First combined edition, English imprint. Reprints of essays that appeared in 1963 and 1962 with a new introduction by John Dreyfus and a reprint of Beatrice Warde's recollections which appeared in the Sunday Times.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 22430

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Morison, Stanley THE ROMAN ITALIC & BLACK LETTER BEQUEATHED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD BY DR. JOHN FELL.
Oxford Printed for the Typophiles at the University Press 1951 small 8vo. cloth. 49, (3) pages.
Reprinting of the first edition which was limited to only 100 copies; the 26th chap book, limited to 475 copies. History of the Fell type and reproductions of some of the type and ornaments.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 12800

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Morison, Stanley. TACT IN TYPOGRAPHICAL DESIGN. A TYPE SPECIMEN.
(London Rampant Lions Press for Monotype Corporation 1962) small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 6 pages.
Limited to 600 copies and printed to be the first use of the new type face designed by Will Carter and David Kindersley (called Octavian). Ink acquisition note by previous owner in corner of free endpaper.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 84695

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Morison, Stanley A TALLY OF TYPES.
Cambridge University Press 1973 tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 138 pages.
New edition, supplemented. (Appleton no.190a). Edited by Brooke Crutchley. An account of types cut by Morison while at the Monotype Corporation. This new edition includes a discussion of three type faces that aren't in the first edition. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 4567

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Morison, Stanley A TALLY OF TYPES.
Cambridge University Press 1973 tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 138 pages.
New edition, supplemented. (Appleton no.190a). Edited by Brooke Crutchley. An account of types cut by Morison while at the Monotype Corporation. This new edition includes a discussion of three type faces that aren't in the first edition. Jacket is toned along edges.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 116302

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