(Harper Woods, Michigan: The Adagio Press), n.d. large 12mo. stiff paper wrapper. (8) pages. Not in Tanner and Alstrom. Bahr's thoughts on the purpose of Adagio Press, influenced by Daniel Berkeley Updike's PRINTING TYPES. READ MORE about ADAGIO
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 94189
Harper Woods, MI: Adagio Press, 1978-1983. 8vo. The collection consists of seven pieces, all being in fine condition. The archive consistes of: a single prospectus of featured in-print titles from Adagio Press, a small marketing card on green handmade paper inscribed by Leonard Bahr for Max Caflisch, one ephemera piece with a quote from Horace Walpole (to Sir David Dalrymple), and four Christmas cards featuring quotes from Psalm 104, Tennyson, Dag Hammarskjöld, and Henry David..... READ MORE about A Small Archive of Adagio Press Ephemera
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 142988
(Harper Woods, MI: Adagio Press), 1983. 4to. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. Comments on the travails of the Adagio Press. Minor uneven fading to covers and spine, else a near fine copy. READ MORE about STATUS REPORT 1983
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 133069
Harper Woods, MI: Adagio Press, n.d. (but 1983). small 12mo. self paper wrappers. single sheet folded into thirds. Pamphlet on the origins, equipment, and current projects of the Adagio Press. Two photographs, one of Leonard Bahr and the other of his workroom, laid-in. A near fine copy. READ MORE about TO PURSUE THE PRACTICE OF TYPOGRAPHY AS AN END IN ITSELF, THAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE ADAGIO PRESS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 95448
Halle: Verlag von Wilhelm Knapp, 1908. 8vo. cloth. x, 330 pages. First edition. Exterior in poor condition, textblock broken and cracked in multiple places. Text is clean. Scarce manual and glossary on printing terms. READ MORE about TECHNISCHER FÜHRER DURCH DIE REPRODUKTIONS-VERFAHREN UND DEREN BEZEICHNUNGEN
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 142599
Amsterdam: Lettergieterij Amsterdam, n.d. 4to. cloth. 88 pages. Printed in red, black and blue. A fine copy. Designed by D. Dooyes. READ MORE about AUSLESE MODERNER DRUCKSCHRIFTEN, CHOIX DE CARACTÈRES MODERNES
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 78885
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. ix, 358 pages. First edition. Spine faded, with some chipping to the head of the spine, else a fine copy. Sixteen different chapters on Signs and Meaning, The Alphabet to Rome, Renaissance and Change, Greek, Aramaic, Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and Chinese calligraphy. READ MORE about THE ART OF WRITTEN FORMS, THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF CALLIGRAPHY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 108402
Ten Issues.
Luzern (Lucerne): Kunstkreis Luzern, 1966-1967. tall 8vo. stapled paper wrappers. unpaginated. Ten Issues. Text in German. The complete third series of this periodical devoted to art. In near fine condition. Numerous illustrations, with many in color. READ MORE about KUNST NACHRICHTEN. 3. JAHRGANG. TEN ISSUES
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 142989
N.P. F.C. Avis, (1959). 8vo. cloth. 160 pages. First edition. A near fine copy. A reference guide to type faces available from many different suppliers. READ MORE about TYPE FACE MANUAL
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 51016
Paris: Flammarion, 1993. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 439, (1) pages. First hardcover edition. Fine in fine jacket. Illustrated in color throughout. READ MORE about LES MANUSCRITS À PEINTURES EN FRANCE: 1440-1520
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 142654
Stockholm: Norstedt Tryckeri, 1983. 4to. cloth. 199 pages. Limited to 1800 copies. A near fine copy. Norstedts, the Swedish Royal Printing Office, has a collection of about 20,000 matrices made between 1500 and 1850 by such famous founders as Francois Guyot, Robert Granjon and P.S. Fournier le jeune. In addition to the history of the firm, Axel-Nilsson has reproduced hundreds of specimens by casting new type from the original matrices. An important history of typefounding..... READ MORE about TYPE STUDIES, THE NORSTEDT COLLECTION OF MATRICES IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY OF THE ROYAL PRINTING...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 170
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Detroit, MI): Willens + Michigan, 1983-1985. 4to. each issue is a single broadside, folded once or twice. (6) issues. The first six issues of this virtually unknown series edited, designed, and produced entirely by Leonard Bahr. All sixe issues in fine condition. This set also includes an A.L.s. by Leonard Bahr on his stationary for the designer, Max Caflisch, thanking him for a couple pieces of typography for his reference library, as well as gifting..... READ MORE about TYPETOPICS [then later] TYPE TOPICS. SIXE ISSUES
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 142900
Leipzig: Börsenverein der Deutschen Buchhändler, (1989). 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. 152 pages. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket. A history of the international book exhibitions in Leipzig, with many illustrations. READ MORE about WELTGALERIE DES SCHONEN BUCHES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 48772
Congress of the Association Typographique, 1992 | Colin Banks
New York: International Typeface Corporation, 1992. tall slim 4to. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. (8) pages. Congress of the Association Typographique, 1992 | Colin Banks. First edition limited to 200 copies, of which this is one of 100 numbered and signed copies distributed in Budapest. A Peroration Read at the Congress of the Association Typographique International in Budapest, in September 1992, based on the Mentség written in 1698 by Nicholas Mis of Total Punch..... READ MORE about MY JUSTIFICATION
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 142582
Leipzig: Verlag Philipp Reclam, (1940). thick 8vo. cloth. viii, 519+(1) pages. First edition. The jacket is worn, but loosely inserted into the rear of the book. A near fine copy. Issued to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the beginning of printing by Gutenberg. With 134 illustrations in the text and other plates in color. Includes a foldout facsimile spread page of an illuminated Gutenberg Bible double page loosely inserted in the back. READ MORE about GESCHICHTE DER BUCHDRUCKERKUNST VON IHREN ANSANGEN BIS ZUR GEGENWART
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 29475
Frankfurt: Bauersche Gieszerei, 1936. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 20 pages followed by plates. With frontispiece portrait of this 16th century printer. Covers separating from the text block, head of spine lightly bumped, else a near fine copy. READ MORE about LEONHARD WAGNER DER SCHOPFER DER FRAKTUR Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Detuschen Schrift
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 370
Frankfurt a.M. Bauersche Gieszerei, 1936. small 8vo. boards. (44) pages. With drawings by Fritz Kredel and an introduction by Konrad F. Bauer. With the ownership of the designer Max Caflisch in blue ink on the front free endpaper. A fine copy. READ MORE about KLEINE CHRONIK DER BUCHDRUCKERKUNST, EIN KALENDER FUR DAS SCHALTJAHR 1936
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 31180
Ausstattung: Paul Baumann, (1941). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, loose sheets. 47 pages featuring various color specimens. A beautiful printer's specimen from WWII-era Germany. Spine with minor fading to the outer stiff-paper wrapper, else a fine copy. With forty-seven specimens throughout in beautiful shades of blues and purples, among others. Double-page full-color wheet in beginning. READ MORE about BAUMANNS NEUE FARBTONKARTE SYSTEM PRASE
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 142581
Dusseldorf: Heinrich Winterscheidt, 1984. tall 4to. self paper wrappers. 48 pages. Limited to 950 copies. A fine copy. The work comprises photography and designed by Lothar Baumgarten. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the 1984 Venice Biennale. READ MORE about AMAZONAS TAPAJOS XINGU PURUS ORINOCO VAUPES TOCANTINS VENEZIA LB
Price: $80.00 Order nr. 142838
New York: Marian Goodman Gallery, 1987. tall 4to. self paper wrappers. 36 pages. Limited to 950 copies. A fine copy. The work comprises photography by Carpentier and designed by Lothar Baumgarten. READ MORE about MAKUNAIMA/LOS ADVERTIDOS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 142837
New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1993. tall 4to. self paper wrappers. 112 pages. First edition. A fine copy. The work comprises photography by Baumgarten as well as work with his long-time collaborator Walter Nikkels. Most of the catalogue consists in fact of Baumgarten's photographs of the Pitt Rivers Museum collection of ethnographic objects, taken between 1968 and 1970. READ MORE about AMERICA. INVENTION: UNSETTLED OBJECTS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 142624
Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, 1992. oblong folio. cloth, dust jacket. 142, (2) pages. First edition limited to 1750 copies. Signed on the colophon by the author. Fine in fine jacket. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Typography and composition by Walter Nikkels and Lothar Baumgarten. Photographs developed and printed by Jon and Anne Abbott. Halftone photography by Robert J. Hennessey. Typesetting by Van den Dool, Sliedrecht NL and Studiozetterij Ed..... READ MORE about CARBON
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 142600
Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, 1992. oblong folio. cloth, dust jacket. 142, (2) pages. First edition limited to 1750 copies. Lacking the loose ephemera in the rear sleeve. Fine in fine jacket. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Typography and composition by Walter Nikkels and Lothar Baumgarten. Photographs developed and printed by Jon and Anne Abbott. Halftone photography by Robert J. Hennessey. Typesetting by Van den Dool, Sliedrecht NL and Studiozetterij..... READ MORE about CARBON
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 142601
København, Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki: Kunstindustimuseet, Kungliga Biblioteket, Akateeminen Kirjakauppa, n.d. large square 8vo. quarter cloth with paper spine label and patterned paper-covered boards. not paginated. Danish version of the catalogue for a Scandinavian exhibition devoted to Gotthard de Beauclair and his modern German book designs. A near fine copy. Includes forty-six illustrations of de Beauclair's designs, many in color and some tipped-in. READ MORE about GOTTHARD DE BEAUCLAIR MODERN TYSK BOKKONST
Price: $120.00 Order nr. 74579
[M.B. in his letters as book designer, illustrator and typeface designer].
Hamburg: Verlag Hans Christians, 1974. 8vo. self paper wrappers with cloth tape backing, mounted inside a stiff paper folder. 86, (2) pages. [M.B. in his letters as book designer, illustrator and typeface designer]. Limited to 1,600 copies. A fine copy. Text of 26 letters of the book designer, illustrator and type designer M. Behmer (1879-1958): correspondence between Behmer and the Insel-Verlag, H. G. Kessler of the Cranach-Press (re a never-published edition of Petronius), the Soncino..... READ MORE about MARCUS BEHMER IN SEINEN BRIEFEN ALS BUCHGESTALTER, ILLUSTRATOR UND SCH RIFTZEICHNER
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 53625
