New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, (1987). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 168 pages. First U.S. edition. Describes the careers of the great type designers of this century - Goudy, Rogers, Koch, Dwiggins, Gill, Morison, etc. Well illustrated. Fine condition. READ MORE about TWENTIETH CENTURY TYPE DESIGNERS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 62292
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1868. folio. later quarter leather over cloth boards. 157+(1) pages, 112 plates. Third edition, originally published in 30 parts, with some copies bound by the publisher and sold for five guineas. (Friedman 152; Hardie p.243; McLean pp.122-125; Wakeman p.63). "One of the greatest monuments of color printing in the nineteenth century ..." This edition has 12 additional plates that were not present in the folio edition of 1856. Meant by Jones to..... READ MORE about GRAMMAR OF ORNAMENT ILLUSTRATED BY EXAMPLES FROM VARIOUS STYLES OF ORNAMENT, ONE HUNDRED AND...
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 116804
(St. Gallen, Switzerland): Heidelberg News, n.d. 8vo. self paper wrappers. 27+(1) pages. Table of contents, glossary. A guide to color reproduction and perception. Color illustrations. READ MORE about COLOUR IN PRINTING SPECTRAL COLOUR MEASURING AND COLORIMETRICS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 134144
Washington, DC: National Bureau of Standards, U. S. Department of Commerce, 1971. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 16 pages. NBS Consumer Information Series 5, edited by James E. Payne. Distributed by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Table of contents, foreword by Director Lewis M. Branscomb, introduction, bibliography. Illustrated. READ MORE about CARE OF BOOKS, DOCUMENTS, PRINTS AND FILMS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134172
(Los Angeles, CA): University of Southern California, 1988. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 46, (2) pages. Number 24. Introduction by librarian Charles R. Ritcheson, notes and announcements. A collection of articles related to books, printing, and typography, including recollections of Ward Ritchie. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about CORANTO: JOURNAL OF THE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARIES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134155
(London): Faber & Faber, 1975. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 154 pages. Reprint of the 1973 first edition. A look through a designer's eyes at the main methods of graphic reproduction in use twenty-five years ago. "The book's aim is deliberately limited to the provision of facts" about production. Chapters on The Scope of Graphics Today, Printing and Printers, Words into Print, Pictures into Print, Graphics Not on Paper, and Functional Considerations. With 125 illustrations. Glossary..... READ MORE about GRAPHICS, DESIGN INTO PRODUCTION
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 64084
Salem, MA: Marine Research Society, 1933. 8vo. cloth. viii, plates, 206, (2) pages. Preface, index. Frontispiece and 37 black and white plates. Black and white illustrations in text. Spine and covers sunned. READ MORE about THE BUILT-UP SHIP MODEL
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134317
Salem, MA: Marine Research Society, 1925. 8vo. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, dust jacket. xii, plates, 139, (3) pages. Limited to 97 numbered copies. Printed on American vellum. Preface, table of contents, index. Working plans for a model of the clipper ship "Sea Witch" in pocket on inside of back cover. 17 black and white plates. Dust jacket worn at edges. Covers slightly rubbed and scuffed. READ MORE about SHIP MODELS: HOW TO BUILD THEM
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 134315
New York: New York Times National Book Fair, n.d. 12mo. boards. 16 pages. Autobiography of a book related by the book. The Second PM Keepsake. Covers soiled. Paper covering on spine partially chipped away. READ MORE about AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BOOK
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 17412
Philadelphia: J.E. McClees & Co., (1911). 12mo. cloth-backed boards. (15) pages. With 3 tipped-in plates that show colored mezzotint printing executed by Dickins at his London publishing house. Some cover spotting. Slightly shaken. READ MORE about A NOTE ON THE ART OF MEZZOTINT AND MEZZOTINT PRINTING IN COLOURS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 98596
New York, NY: John F. Dobbs, 1928. 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. 386 pages. Preface, table of contents, index. Frontispiece. A guide to proof-reading. Edges of dust jacket chipped. READ MORE about PROOF-READING AND STYLE FOR COMPOSITION IN WRITING AND PRINTING
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 134321
(Dublin, Ireland: The Dolmen Press, 1953). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. (8) pages. Text in Latin. Limited to 500 copies (Miller 10). The second epistle of St. John in the New Testament. Wood engravings by Elizabeth Rivers. The first of a series of Christmas booklets by the publisher. Title torn at very top of page. READ MORE about INITIUM S. EVANGELII SECUNDUM S. JOANNEM
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 134185
Westmoreland Hills, MD: LD's Press of the Bald Eagle, 1960. small 8vo. paper wrappers. 72 pages. First edition, published after Douglas's death. The designers represented in the book include Harry Carter, Warren Chappel, Fritz Eichenberg, John Fass and Edward Wilson. READ MORE about FIRST BIRTHDAY BOOK, 33 LD BALDY EAGLE MARKS BY ARTIST-DESIGNER FRIENDS OF BALDY FOR WHIMSY AND...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 2175
London and New York: The Studio Publications, (1951). 4to. cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. xii, 214 pages. S-K 5740. First U.S. edition. Major sections on type design, lettering, printing, illustration, commercial binding and hand binding. Each section is well-illustrated. A different author summarizes the results of each country; i.e., binding in the U.S. by E.W. Palmer and Edith Diehl. In a later San Francisco Public Library binding. Exlibris with markings. Else fine. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE BOOK, SOME RECORD OF WORK CARRIED OUT IN EUROPE & THE U.S.A., 1939-1950
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 120770
St. Petersburg, FL: Felten, 1970. 4to. cloth. 303+(1) pages. Completely revised edition. An approach to page design combining layout and typography. Various techniques and applications. "Kitsap Newspaper" written in black marker on top left corner of front paste-down. Slightly shaken, bumped. READ MORE about LAYOUT 4, PRINTING DESIGN + TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 49749
(Temple City, CA: Craft Course Publishers, 1966). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages. A volume in the "Handicrafts for Fun" library. Table of contents, acknowledgments. Black and white illustrations. Covers separated from text. READ MORE about FINISHING WITH GOLD LEAF
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134140
(New York, NY: Dutton Children's Books, 2000). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Introduction by the authors, list of sources. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about MAKE A BOOK: SIX DIFFERENT BOOKS TO MAKE, WRITE, AND ILLUSTRATE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134028
(Camden: C. Howard Hunt Pen Co., 1956). 8vo. paper wrappers. 64 pages. Fifth edition. Contains many full page example plates. READ MORE about BLOCK PRINTING WITH LINOLEUM, A PRACTICAL MANUAL FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS IN ENGRAVING AND...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 93912
New York: Privately Printed, 1981. 12mo. boards. 78 pages. Reprint of the 1974 edition. An assessment of Franklin's career as a printer. Woodcuts by John DePol. Fine condition. READ MORE about BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: THE PRINTER AT WORK
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 61350
New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1980). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 318 pages. First edition. 439 illustrations with 156 plates in full color. READ MORE about TREASURES OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 8920
(Neenah, WI): Kimberly Clark Corporation, n.d. oblong 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages. A presentation by the Kimberly Clark Corporation. Color and black and white illustrations. READ MORE about GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH THE AGES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 134240
New Haven, CT: Yale University Library, 1982. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 59+(1) pages. This pamphlet describes the forces that threaten library collections and is designed to serve as an introduction to conservation techniques such as improving storage conditions, preserving deteriorated books, problems, etc. READ MORE about PRESERVATION: YOUR RESPONSIBILITY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 65415
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1936. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 186 pages. Reprint (with corrections) of the revised edition. A chronological history of the book and important firsts which have occurred. Lacking dust jacket. Boards lightly soiled. READ MORE about CHRONOLOGY OF BOOKS & PRINTING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 3186
Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1972. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xvii+(i), 160 pages. A conservation handbook for the nonspecialist. Three areas are covered which are the health and safety of collections, preliminaries to conservation, and first aid for artifacts. Illustrated in black and white. Fine condition. READ MORE about THE CARE OF HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 70608
Leeds: The Elmete Press, 1976. 4to. quarter black calf with crushed canvas covered boards, clamshell box. x, 95, (2) pages. First edition. Printed in an edition limited to 465 numbered copies, this being one of 430 copies bound in quarter calf. Introduction by Percy Muir. A reference book of printers and publishers of conjuring books and ephemera. The principal illustrations are facsimile reproductions from old conjuring books, printed by lithography from plates made by C...... READ MORE about SOME PRINTERS & PUBLISHERS OF CONJURING BOOKS AND OTHER EPHEMERA
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 58386
