ADVERTISING & PRODUCTION YEARBOOK 5TH ANNUAL.
New York: Colton Press, 1939. 4to. cloth. 424 pages. Covers soiled, else a very good copy. READ MORE about ADVERTISING & PRODUCTION YEARBOOK 5TH ANNUAL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 27
New York: Colton Press, 1939. 4to. cloth. 424 pages. Covers soiled, else a very good copy. READ MORE about ADVERTISING & PRODUCTION YEARBOOK 5TH ANNUAL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 27
New York: Colton Press, 1940. 4to. cloth. 440 pages. This is a very interesting and informative look at the production side of advertising and publishing in mid-century America. Shaken, else a fine copy. The images are fabulous, and there is a great deal of "how-to" and technical information, in articles, charts, graphs, and statistics contributed by a number of persons working in these fields. The manual covers services and suppliers in art, photography, engraving, electrotyping..... READ MORE about ADVERTISING & PRODUCTION YEARBOOK 6TH ANNUAL
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 28
New York: Colton Press, 1941. 4to. cloth. 468 pages. Filled with examples of design, production methods and illustration methods. Spine lightly faded, else a very good copy. READ MORE about ADVERTISING & PRODUCTION YEARBOOK 7TH ANNUAL
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 29
New York: n.p., 1945. 12mo. cloth-backed boards. 36 pages. First edition. Bookplate on front pastedown. A fine copy. History of an important group of American typographers. Color ornamentation. READ MORE about 25TH ANNIVERSARY NEW YORK GROUP ADVERTISING TYPOGRAPHERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC. 1920-1945
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 32
New York: Colton Press, 1948. 4to. cloth. 594 pages. Filled with all manners of advertising art, diecuts, full color inserts, etc. Covers rubbed. READ MORE about EIGHTH GRAPHIC ARTS PRODUCTION YEARBOOK
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 31
New York: Colton Press, 1950. 4to. cloth. 594 pages. Filled with all manners of advertising art, diecuts, full color inserts, etc. Near fine condition. READ MORE about NINTH GRAPHIC ARTS PRODUCTION YEARBOOK
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 104097
N.P. A.A.A.A. AND N.A.M.P. Joint Committee on Magazine Advertising Reproduction, 1948. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 5+(1) pages. Report No. 1. A report on improving the appearance of magazine advertising. READ MORE about IMPROVING THE PHYSICAL PRESENTATION OF ADVERTISING IN MAGAZINES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 133577
New York, NY: American Association of Advertising Agencies, 1951. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 6 pages. Special edition, Revised Report No. 3. List of committee members, introductory note, table of contents. READ MORE about RECOMMENDED STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS FOR ADVERTISING REPRODUCTION MATERIAL IN MAGAZINE LETTERPRESS...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 133576
Some Suggestions for Advertising Display
Philadelphia, PA: Curtis Publishing Company, The, 1916. small folio. publisher's paper wrappers, title printed in black on front cover. 65 pages. Some Suggestions for Advertising Display. Contains examples of tips for double-page spreads in advertising in the early 20th century. Some minor wear to covers of the covers. Some wear along spine. Else a near fine copy of this very scarce book. The book was printed using the same paper as what was used for..... READ MORE about TWO PAGES FACING
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 138692
Zurich: L'Art Ancien, (1980). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 52 pages. Bookseller's catalogue describing 276 books and pamphlets on flight. Price list loosely inserted. Catalogue no.70 issued by this firm. READ MORE about FLIGHT, ORIGINS & PROGRESS
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 14168
(Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2001). 8vo. cloth. (vi), iv, 170 pages with 15 leaves of illustrations. Facsimile edition of Bibliotheca Aeronautica first published in London in 1920. Catalogue no. 387 from Maggs Brothers described a collection of 1494 books, pamphlets and engravings on early aeronautics. Designed to trace the evolution of aviation from the early times to the close of the First World War, each entry contains a full description, price, cross references with..... READ MORE about A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS AND ENGRAVINGS ILLUSTRATING THE EVOLUTION OF THE AIRSHIP AND THE...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 64871
N.P. Sotheby's, 1993. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. A catalogue to an auction of a collection of books, manuscripts, photographs, models and other artifacts relating to aviation and its history. 211 entries, many of which are large lots. With an interesting biographical sketch of the collector. Well-illustrated, much in color. READ MORE about THE OTTO KALLIR COLLECTION OF AVIATION HISTORY
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 47936
A Checklist of Aesopic Fables in the Pierpont Morgan Library
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 38 pages. A Checklist of Aesopic Fables in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Book was a companion to the exhibit The Fox and the Grapes; Aesop Through The Ages at the Pierpont Morgan Library from 24 May - 27 August 1995. Introduction was written by Charles E. Pierce. Items in the checklist are listed by year published from the 3rd century through the year..... READ MORE about THE FOX AND THE GRAPES AESOP THROUGH THE AGES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 91695
Totowa, New Jersey: Roman and Littlefield, (1975). large 8vo. cloth with silver lettering. non-paginated. Book arranged by columns beginning with number 21, Asia and Africa, and running to number 207, Zambia. A fourth edition revised and brought up to date by J.D. Pearson. Near fine condition. READ MORE about A WORLD BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 87219
Paris: Unesco, (1969). small 4to. paper wrappers. 37, (3) pages. No.56 in Unesco's series of Reports and Papers on Mass Communication; focuses mainly on publishing and distribution. READ MORE about BOOK DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA, PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 49520
(Mansfield Centre: Martino Publishing Co., 2002). 8vo. cloth. (iv), xxii, 384 pages. Reprint of 1932 first edition published by the Gold Coast Colony. This is the most exhaustive bibliography cited in Besterman having 5168 listings on the subject of the Gold Coast. (Besterman 2615). The Portuguese who came to Ghana in the 15th Century found so much gold between the rivers Ankobra and the Volta that they named the place Mina, meaning Mine. The Gold..... READ MORE about A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GOLD COAST
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 70487
Nairobi: Jomo Kenyatta Foundation, 1968. 8vo. paper wrappers. vi, 54 pages. African librarianship. Presentation to Siefred Taubert thanking him for getting Kenya into the Frankfurt Book Fair. READ MORE about INTRODUCING AND RUNNING CLASS LIBRARIES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 50602
London: William Crofts, 1836. 8vo. half leather over marbled paper boards, all edges marbled, five raised bands, gilt on spine, blue coated pastedowns and endpapers. 412 pages, with 26 lithograph plates (2 of which are in full color and four in two-color), including two large folding maps at rear. First edition. Mendelssohn, I, pp. 587-8; Theal, Catalogue of Books and Pamphlets relating to Africa south of the Zambesi in the Collection of George McCall Theal..... READ MORE about NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO THE ZOOLU COUNTRY, IN SOUTH AFRICA
Price: $500.00 Order nr. 137913
(Mansfield Centre: Martino Fine Books, n.d. but 1998). 8vo. cloth. (viii), 312 pages. Reprint of the 1875 first edition. (See Besterman 440). 3,696 entries and with index. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIE DES OUVRAGES RELATIFS A L'AFRIQUE ET A L'ARABIE CATALOGUE METHODIQUE
Price: $70.00 Order nr. 53685
(Mansfield Centre: Martino Publishing, 2000). 8vo. cloth. 275 pages. Reprint of the 1912 first edition published by E. Sansot et Cie of Paris. (Besterman 185). French West Africa was an administrative grouping under French rule from 1895 to 1958 and included Senegal, French Guinea, the Ivory Coast, and the French Sudan, to which was added Dahomey in 1899. Mauritania and Niger were also part of the union at various times. This work describes 3750 works..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIE DE L'AFRIQUE OCCIDENTALE FRANCAISE
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 60939
London: Commonwealth Secretariat, n.d. (circa 1975). small 4to. paper wrappers, fabric spine. (iv), 76 pages, Includes papers on publishing in Africa, on libraries for schools, and on textbooks for Africa. READ MORE about REPORT OF THE COMMONWEALTH AFRICAN BOOK DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR, IBADAN, NIGERIA, 2-14 FEBRUARY 1975
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 49516
London: Conference of Missionary Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, 1923. 8vo. later cloth, leather spine label, original wrappers bound in. xvi, 135 pages, folded map. First edition. Minor dampstain effecting the top edge of the textblock throughout, but not effecting the text. Else a lovely copy. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 138404
Introduction by Robert Fitzgerald.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968. 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. 179 pages. Introduction by Robert Fitzgerald. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. READ MORE about THE COLLECTED POEMS OF JAMES AGEE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 138003
New York: George Braziller, 1962. 8vo. hardcover, dust jacket. 235 pages. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket. READ MORE about LETTERS OF JAMES AGEE TO FATHER FLYE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 137972
Paris, France: H. Le Soudier, 1894. 16mo. original stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. Text in French. First annual editon. Frontispiece portrait of Georges Hachette. A directory of bookstores and useful information for booksellers. One foldout with maps of France. One advertisement in color. Ex-library. Wappers tearing along spine, chipped at edges, and lightly soiled. READ MORE about AGENDA-ANNUAIRE DE LA LIBRAIRIE FRANÇAISE 1894
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 120809