A SPECIMEN OF FAIRFIELD TYPE.
Bangor, Maine: Eastern Corporation, n.d. large broadside specimen sheet folded twice. Designed by Rudolph Ruzicka with information on him. READ MORE about A SPECIMEN OF FAIRFIELD TYPE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 105671
Bangor, Maine: Eastern Corporation, n.d. large broadside specimen sheet folded twice. Designed by Rudolph Ruzicka with information on him. READ MORE about A SPECIMEN OF FAIRFIELD TYPE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 105671
Ann Arbor: Edwards Brothers, Incorporated, n.d. 4to. metal-ring binder. unpaginated. Type specimen book from Edwards Brothers. Black-and-white illustrations. A fine copy. READ MORE about TYPE SPECIMEN AND COMPOSITION GUIDE BOOK
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 139180
(Berkeley, CA: Emigre), n.d. 8vo. self paper wrappers. unpaginated. Texts by David Barringer. List of fonts and designers. A catalogue of items offered by Emigre. READ MORE about LITTLE BOOK OF LOVE LETTERS: THE EMIGRE TYPE CATALOG VOLUME I
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 131749
New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., (1949). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 158 pages. Reprint of the first edition. Jacket is very worn with pieces missing. READ MORE about TYPE FOR BOOKS AND ADVERTISING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 2633
New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1947. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 160 pages. First edition. "A detailed, comprehensive handbook on the many varied applications of all the phases of typography." Well preserved copy in lightly chipped dust jacket. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about TYPE FOR BOOKS AND ADVERTISING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 2634
New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1949. 4to. cloth. 160 pages. First edition, later printing. "A detailed, comprehensive handbook on the many varied applications of all the phases of typography." A very good copy. READ MORE about TYPE FOR BOOKS AND ADVERTISING
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 19627
New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1948. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 160 pages. First edition, second printing. "A detailed, comprehensive handbook on the many varied applications of all the phases of typography." Jacket worn with pieces chipped away. READ MORE about TYPE FOR BOOKS AND ADVERTISING
Price: $12.50 Order nr. 21827
New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1947. 4to. cloth. 160 pages. First edition. "A detailed, comprehensive handbook on the many varied applications of all the phases of typography." Presentation on free endpaper "To my good friend, George L. McKay, Gene Ettenberg, May 7, 1947" and with a one page handwritten copy of a note to "Gene" thanking him for sending along this inscribed copy. READ MORE about TYPE FOR BOOKS AND ADVERTISING
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 54395
New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1947. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 160 pages. First edition. "A detailed, comprehensive handbook on the many varied applications of all the phases of typography." Jacket chipped with tears along edges. READ MORE about TYPE FOR BOOKS AND ADVERTISING
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 126851
New York: Van Nostrand Co., (1948). 4to. cloth. 160 pages. First edition, later printing. "A detailed, comprehensive handbook on the many varied applications of all the phases of typography." Inscribed on free endpaper "March 26, 1949. In memory of a happy day in Utica, To Howard Coggeshall, Gene Ettenberg, O. Alfred Dilman, Lawrence B. Siegfrid" where each of the three have signed their names. READ MORE about TYPE FOR BOOKS AND ADVERTISING
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 64359
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Berthold Wolpe.
London: Printing Historical Society, (1967). 8vo. cloth. 44 pages followed by the two facsimiles. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Berthold Wolpe. Includes comparison of type sizes, a description of the foundry and the two facsimiles. Spine faded, else a near fine copy. READ MORE about VINCENT FIGGINS TYPE SPECIMENS, 1801 AND 1815 REPRODUCED BY FACSIMILE
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 5061
New Rochelle: The Myriade Press, 1978. small 8vo. Paperback. 285+(1) pages. This book is not only Goudy's autobiography, but it is the most complete record to date of his typographic contribution, which has had a major worldwide effect. First published in 1946 as one of the Typophile Chapbooks XIII and XIV, entitled A HALF-CENTURY OF TYPE DESIGN AND TYPOGRAPHY, this second edition is available as the student and professional typographer's working tool, as well as..... READ MORE about GOUDY'S TYPE DESIGNS, HIS STORY AND SPECIMENS
Price: $14.95 Order nr. 47020
Rochester: The Press of the Good Mountain, 1961. 4to. paper over boards, paper cover label. vii, 22+(1) pages. Limited to 100 copies. A near fine copy. Introduction by Alexander S. Lawson. Printed in two colors with F.W.G's Mediaeval & Californian types by Herbert Harrison Johnson. An excellent essay on type. READ MORE about TYPE DESIGN, A HOMILY
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 35908
Rochester: The Press of the Good Mountain, 1961. 4to. paper wrappers, paper label on cover. vii, 22+(1) pages. Second edition. A fine copy. Limited to 100 copies. A fine copy. From the colophon: "This second edition varies only slightly in design and has been printed from the original type forms by Howard I. Gralla and Michael F. Bixler. Introduction by Alexander S. Lawson. Printed in two colors with F.W.G's Mediaeval & Californian types by Herbert..... READ MORE about TYPE DESIGN, A HOMILY
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 138769
Philadelphia: The Lanston Monotype Machine Co., n.d. Broadside. 9 x 6.25 cm). A broadside reprint of this famous Goudy essay printed with a red decorative initial letter. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about TYPE SPEAKS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 18576
(Pasadena, CA): The Clinker Press, 2014. broadside (14 by 10 3/4 inches). right edge uncut. Printed for the Zamorano Club, designed and printed by Andre Chaves. READ MORE about WHEN A TYPE DESIGN IS GOOD
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 129869
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., (1982). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 91 pages. Taken from Porret's Illustrations Typographiques published in Paris between 1838 and 1842. READ MORE about VICTORIAN SPOT ILLUSTRATIONS, ALPHABETS AND ORNAMENTS FROM PORRET'S TYPE CATALOG
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 106280
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, (1983). large square 8vo. paperback. 128 pages. First paperback edition. Minor soiling to covers, else a near fine copy. Fully illustrated. READ MORE about TIPS ON TYPE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 140217
New York: Haddon Craftsmen, n.d. (circa 1960s). 8vo. cloth. 128 pages. Computer composition type specimen book, a first for the Haddon Craftsmen. A fine copy. The specimen book has full alphabets and settings in paragraphs. The typefaces included are: Avanta (Electra), Baskerville, Eterna, Gael (Caledonia), Garamond, Janson, Primer, Roma (Optima), Times Roman, and Special Carachters. The paragraphs settings show the effect of different sizes of leading. READ MORE about COMCOM TYPE SPECIMEN BOOK
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 5083
New York: Watson-Guptill, (1990). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 128 pages. First edition. Describes and analyses twenty of today's most popular typefaces covering characteristics, background, and considerations for use. Illustrated with examples of design and the complete roman and italic alphabet of each face. READ MORE about ABC'S OF TYPE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 31363
Redhill, Surrey: The Monotype Corporation Limited, n.d. large 8vo. paper wrappers. (8) pages. Reprinted from the Monotype Newsletter, No. 69. READ MORE about GROTESQUE LETTERS, A HISTORY OF UNSERIFFED TYPE FACES FROM 1816 TO THE PRESENT DAY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 26135
New York: The Typophiles, 1978. oblong 8vo. boards, dust jacket. 64 pages. Taken from the second edition, limited to 400 copies issued by the Typophiles as Chapbook 55. Fine in fine dust jacket. Expanded from an article in Alphabet & Image. Well illustrated including two foldout inserts, one in color. READ MORE about THE LETTER FORMS AND TYPE DESIGNS OF ERIC GILL
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 21326
Ames: Iowa State University Press, (1979). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 172 pages. First edition. Freeman was a publisher in many different parts of the West after the Civil War. Small private ownership label in corner of free endpaper. READ MORE about MOVABLE TYPE, BIOGRAPHY OF LEGH R. FREEMAN
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 12187
Brattleboro, VT: E.L. Hildreth & Co., 1934. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 228, 46 pages. Two volumes bound in one. A printer's specimen book. Third printing. Spine lightly faded, else near fine. Very scarce, especially with the Specimens of Job Type. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about SPECIMENS OF TYPE IN THE OFFICE OF E.L. HILDRETH & CO. INCORPORATED [and] SPECIMENS OF JOB...
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 16252
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, (1973). square 8vo. cloth. xii, 307 pages. Only edition. A near fine coyp. A comprehensive description of 295 composition machines and systems. Huss has assembled much information from both United States and British Patents and translated it into understandable English. With many illustrations. READ MORE about THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRINTERS' MECHANICAL TYPE-SETTING METHODS, 1822-1925
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 15418