New York: American Wood Type Mfg. Co., (1961). tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 184 pages. Filled with illustrations. Rubbed around edges.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about AWT COMPLETE 1961-1962 TYPE CATALOGUE, WOOD TYPE, METAL TYPE, FOUNDRY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 30284
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp. (1963). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 406 pages. First edition. "A practical workbook for the graphic designer." Each face is shown in all characters. Jacket is worn. Name on free endpaper. READ MORE about TYPE AND TYPOGRAPHY, THE DESIGNER'S TYPE BOOK
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 50469
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp. (1963). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (x), 406 pages. First edition. "A practical workbook for the graphic designer." Each face is shown in all characters. Tear on front flap of dust jacket, else fine. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about TYPE AND TYPOGRAPHY, THE DESIGNER'S TYPE BOOK
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 135176
London: Sir Isaac Pitman, 1927. small 4to. cloth-backed boards. 47, (3) pages. Reprinted from "Modern Advertising." Covers soiled with wear at tips. READ MORE about TYPES AND TYPE FACES, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF TYPE DISPLAY AND ADVERTISEMENT LAYOUTS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 22903
York, PA: York Compositioin Co., n.d. 4to. paper-covered boards, spiral bount. 82 pages. Type faces, rules, and borders offered for sale by York Composition Company. Index precedes text. Printed on recto only. Front cover scarred. READ MORE about TYPE FACES: A COLLECTION OF TYPE FACES RULES AND BORDERS STOCKED IN OUR COMPOSING ROOM
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 133968
(Chicago: Lakeside Press Galleries, 1955). 8vo. self paper wrappers, mailing envelope. (8) pages. An advertising pamphlet for the exhibition held at the Lakeside Press. Some wear on mailing envelope. READ MORE about TYPE FOUNDERS PRESENT THEIR TYPE FACES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 102297
With Historical Notes and Comments by Henry Lewis Bullen. Introduction by Richard B. Yale.
San Diego: Frontier Publishing Co., 1972. 4to. cloth. (7), 53 leaves printed on one side. With Historical Notes and Comments by Henry Lewis Bullen. Introduction by Richard B. Yale. Reprinted in typescript from the 1934 first edition and containing some additional matter. Compiled by H.L. Bullen, librarian of the ATF Company, to eliminate duplicates from the library and raise money. Excellent bibliographical tool in the study of these specimen books as Bullen has added comments..... READ MORE about DUPLICATES OF TYPE SPECIMEN BOOKS, ETC., UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN, FOR SALE BY THE TYPOGRAPHIC...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 31351
Chicago: privately printed, 1932. 4to. paper self wrappers. 8 pages with 8 figures. First separate edition. Light toning around edges, else near fine.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about TYPES AND TYPEFOUNDING IN GERMANY: THE WORK OF CHRISTIAN EGENOLFF AND HIS SUCCESSORS IN THE...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 11571
Leyland, Lancashire, England: Mould Type Foundry, n.d. 4to. cloth. 152, xxii, (8) pages. Table of contents on pastedowns, foreword, explanation of service and "conditions of business," price list. Engraved illustration of the company's plant. Some specimens in color. Tipped-in supplemental items throughout text. Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges. Light tanning near edges of text. READ MORE about SPECIMEN BOOK OF TYPE FACES RULES, BORDERS & ORNAMENTS
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 129524
(Cambridge, MA): The Houghton Library, Harvard University, 1993. 4to. foldout brochurel. (8) pages. Exhibition at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, January-February 1993. Includes exhibition checklist and essay by Patricia Peterson and Gino Lee. Also with descriptive information for identifying type faces.. Front cover illustrated. READ MORE about ABOUT FACES: HISTORIC AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN TYPE DESIGN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 119207
London: Monotype Corporation Limited, (1964). 8vo. boards, spiral bound at top. 13 leaves. With illustrations and text on type composition.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about CALENDAR FOR 1964, TYPE COMPOSITION PAST AND PRESENT
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 24553
Jersey City: ATF, 1936. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 109 pages. 1713 items for sale in this massive collection of duplicates. With biographical sketches of Henry Bullen, the librarian, and Robert Nelson, the President. Also shows the library. Slight abrasion on front cover. READ MORE about CATALOGUE AND LIST PRICES OF DUPLICATES OF BOOKS, PRINTS, MUSEUM PIECES AND BROADSIDES OFFERED...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 15426
New York: Canfield Paper Co., n.d. 8vo. half- cloth over patterned boards. Just the book of text without the separately issued specimens.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about DEMONSTRATIONS OF TYPE AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY LETTERPRESS LITHOGRAPHY AND SHEET-FED GRAVURE ON FINE...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 5505
(New York: Amsterdam Continental Types, 1960). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, paper spine label. (62) pages. Lists 170 items and has many illustrations Also contains a list of type-faces designed by Zapf. Loosely inserted in a commemorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about HERMANN ZAPF, CALLIGRAPHER, TYPE-DESIGNER AND TYPOGRAPHER AN EXHIBITION ARRANGED AND CIRCULATED...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 10995
North Pomfret, VT: Hamish Hamilton, (1980). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 332 pages. New revised edition. Table of contents, acknowledgments, foreword by John Ryder, explanation of contents. Typefaces offered by Western Printing Services. Index of typefaces follows text. Dust jacket chipped at edges. READ MORE about THE NEW WESTERN TYPE BOOK: ANALYSED PAGE SPECIMENS OF MONOTYPE, LINOTYPE AND INTERTYPE FACES AND...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 131448
Dayton, OH: The Set-O-Type Co., (1930). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 15+(1) pages. Extols the virtues of Set-O-Type automatic typesetting equipment. Black and white illustrations. Wrappers lightly soiled. Back wrapper separated. READ MORE about SET-O-TYPE: A REVOLUTIONARY METHOD OF SAVING AND MAKING MONEY IN YOUR MULTIGRAPHING
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 120151
Philadelphia: Imperial Metal and Chemical Company, 1966. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 63 pages. Fifth edition, revised. Illustrated. Minor soiling; business card stapled to front outside cover, else near fine. READ MORE about TYPE METALS, THEIR CHARACTERISTICS AND THEIR PERFORMANCE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 30781
Norfolk: The Farthing Press, 1985. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. A type specimens book produced by The Farthing Press with common adages and maxims in addition to the standard display of type specimens. Letter dated 20 March '86 signed by Alan J. Fitch & compliments of card laid -in. Large crease on top board and fading on both boards as if shelved next to smaller books. READ MORE about A TYPE OF QUOTE, BOOK I. BEING A COLLECTION OF THE ROMAN TYPE FACES OF THE FARTHING PRESS
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 96744
Wisbech, Cambs.
Balding & Mansell, Printers, n.d. small 8vo. cloth. 80, (8) pages. Wisbech, Cambs. WITH TWO OTHER BOOKLETS. The style book of this printing house. Illustrated and with a glossary of terms. Loosely inserted in a cardboard case with two other specimen booklets issued by the firm.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about TYPE, PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 21913
Kalamazoo: Duensing, 1968. small 8vo. envelope containing a 4 page introduction and 12 broadsides. Limited to about 260 copies. All faces and ornaments were cast at PHD's foundery. READ MORE about TYPE: II, A LEISURELY SHOWING OF TYPEFACES AND ORNAMENTS AVAILABLE IN LIMITED CASTINGS FROM THE...
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 19564
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1994. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 276 pages. Reprint of the first edition with an added appendix. With additions and an introduction by Stephen O. Saxe and an index by Elizabeth K. Lieberman. Recognized by booksellers, collectors, librarians and bibliographers for its great usefulness as the definitive bibliography of American type specimen books. This edition contains an appendix listing 73 type specimen books unknown at the time of the..... READ MORE about TYPE FOUNDRIES OF AMERICA AND THEIR CATALOGS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 104949
Hertford: Stephen Austin and Sons, n.d. (circa 1959). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, spiral bound. Not paginated. Taped to the inside front cover is the mailing label addressed to Dr. J. Bookbinder and dated 1959. Worn around edges. READ MORE about CONTINENTAL AND ORIENTAL TYPE LIST
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 121426
Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 2019. 8.5 x 11 inches. Hardcover with dust jacket. xiv, 383 pages. "As would be expected from a volume from this particular publisher the study of paper is not an end in itself, but is closely related to its use in the printed book and its importance as bibliographical evidence... the production standards are of the very highest order. From my sampling the index does not miss..... READ MORE about PAPER AND TYPE: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 133725
(Zurich, Switzerland: Graphis Press Corp. 1995). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 217, (5) pages. Table of contents, publisher's remarks, foreword by Carnase, preface by Gorkin. Depictions of eighteen noteworthy type faces. READ MORE about TYPE: THE BEST IN DIGITAL CLASSIC TEXT FONTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 122975
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
