Cambridge: Harvard University Press, n.d. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xi, 137 pages. First U.S. edition. Printed at the Curwen Press in England. Excellent one volume look at typography. Jacket has pieces missing at spine ends. Bookplate on front pastedown. READ MORE about INTRODUCTION TO TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 19864
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, n.d. 8vo. cloth. xi, 137 pages. First U.S. edition. Excellent one volume look at typography. Spine faded. READ MORE about INTRODUCTION TO TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $13.00 Order nr. 31470
London: Peter Davies Limited and New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928. large 4to. cloth-backed boards. xix, 83 pages with 122 reproductions of various examples of typography. First edition. The facsimiles are often in two colors. . Printed at The Curwen Press. Covers soiled and wear at tips. Small damaged spot on spine. READ MORE about PRINTING OF TO-DAY, AN ILLUSTRATED SURVEY OF POST-WAR TYPOGRAPHY IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES....
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 62553
London: Peter Davies Limited and New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928. large 4to. cloth-backed boards. xix, 83 pages with 122 reproductions of various examples of typography. First edition. The facsimiles are often in two colors. . Printed at The Curwen Press. Light cover soiling with wear along edges. READ MORE about PRINTING OF TO-DAY, AN ILLUSTRATED SURVEY OF POST-WAR TYPOGRAPHY IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES....
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 123183
Chicago: Regan Publications, 1928. thick 8vo. cloth. x, 647 pages with over 400 illustrations. Taken from the second German edition. Covers rubbed with wear at spine ends. One corner torn off and loosely inserted. READ MORE about STYLES OF ORNAMENT
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 126842
New York: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1940. 4to. cloth. xii, 214 pages. First edition. Complete discussion of all facets of producing advertising copy including layout, tyopgraphy, photo-engraving, paper, printing, illustration and color. Many illustrations. Covers age darkened. Name in ink on free endpaper. READ MORE about THE TECHNIQUE OF ADVERTISING PRODUCTION
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 42006
New York: (Simeon - Fletcher - Boll), 1950. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. (14) pages. First separate edition; first printed in the Gutenberg- Festschrift, Mainz, 1925. With another piece of ephemera done by Steiner-Prag loosely inserted. READ MORE about PUBLISHER AND DESIGNER
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 23926
New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1960. 8vo. decorated boards, dust jacket. 42 pages. First edition, limited to 1250 copies. Talk by Strouse on fine printing given at the opening of an exhibition at the Grolier Club. Presentation on free endpaper "To Roger Levenson = On the occassion of his Grolier visit to our library = May 22, 1964. Norman H. Strouse." READ MORE about THE LENGTHENED SHADOW
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 114651
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2000. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 336 pages. First edition. In this unique work, the author surveys almost 500 illustrations created by the Pre-Raphaelites during their graphic revolution, which encompassed the second half of the nineteenth century. Each artist is represented by a short biography, which also illustrates many of his works. Co-published with the British Library. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about THE PRE-RAPHAELITE ILLUSTRATORS
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 98603
New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., (1948). 8vo. cloth. xiv, 483 pages. Later printing of the first edition. A practical manual of design with many illustrations. Covers rubbed. Minor wrinkling along bottom of pages. READ MORE about DESIGN AND MAKEUP OF THE NEWSPAPER
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 37710
Stockholm: Sällskapet Bokvännerna, (1953). large 8vo. half cloth with patterned paper-covered boards, original paper wrappers bound-in. 253, (9) pages. Edition limited to 1500 copies. A survey of Swedish book design and illustrations from the first half of the twentieth century. Many illustrations in color and in black-and-white. READ MORE about MODERN SVENSK BOKKONST (MODERN SWEDISH BOOK ART
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 73768
Stockholm: Svenska Bokhandlareföreningens, 1943. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 265, (5) pages. Text in Swedish. Foreword by the authors. Includes essays by each author on book art and illustration. Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Swedish Bookseller's Association. 60 black and white numbered illustrations. Wrappers rubbed around edges, lower corner bumped. READ MORE about SVENSKA BOKEN UNDER 50 ÅR
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 115119
N.P. MIT Press, (1966). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 176 pages. First U.S. edition. Well-illustrated. Cover lamination peeling along spine. READ MORE about THE ART NOUVEAU BOOK IN BRITAIN
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 25380
(Boston, MA): The MIT Press, (1966). 8vo. gilt-stamped paper-covered boards. 175+(1) pages. Table of contents, list of illustrations, introduction, bibliography, index. Frontispiece, illustrations throughout text. A study of Art Nouveau book design from its Victorian origins into the early 1900s. READ MORE about THE ART NOUVEAU BOOK IN BRITAIN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 131530
N.P. Privately Printed, 1952. 16mo. printed folder hold title page, introductory page, and 19 example broadsides. Designed by G.H. Petty. "Here are some slightly off-color pearls of wisdom picked up along the Gay White Way and from random detours along the Primrose Path." A collection of small broadsides printed in different colors. Interesting examples of graphic design. READ MORE about EFFEMERA
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 118968
Vienna: Herbert Reichner, 1927. tall 8vo. paper-covered boards with paper covering missing from spine. 30 leaves. Limited to 200 numbered copies, being part of the series entitled Bibliotheca Typographica edited by Reichner. Reproduction of this 1760 book of type ornaments and ornamental arrangements.Other than the spine, a very good copy. READ MORE about ABDRUCK VON DENJENIGEN RÖSLEIN UND ZIERRATHEN WELCHE SICH IN DER K.K. HOFSCHRIFTGIESSEREY
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 4886
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
New York: George F. Trenholm, 1944. 16mo. decorated paper-covered boards. (vi), 36 pages. The first of the Diamant Classics. Limited to 450 numbered copies. READ MORE about ON THE TYPOGRAPHIC BEAM
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 38478
Chicago: The Inland Printer Co., 1919. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 83 pages. Later printing of the first edition. Illustrated but no color. READ MORE about DESIGN AND COLOR IN PRINTING
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 49737
Basel: Bucherer, Kurrus & Co., (1962). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 31+(1) pages. Text in German. Limited edition of 1600. Discuss proportion in the publication of books and the sizing of pages. 18 diagrams and bibliography included. Janson-Antiqua type on Basingwerk Presentation by the author to F. Mayer on front free endpaper. Advertising brochure laid in. READ MORE about WILLKÜRFREIE MASSVERHÄLTNISSE DER BUCHSEITE UND DES SATZPIEGELS
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 109651
Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, (1990). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 126, (2) pages. First edition. On manual on how to present illustrated material on a page of text. Chapters on "Escaping Flatland," "Color and Information" and others. Well illustrated including a number in color. With promotional material and lengthy magazine article on Tufte loosely inserted. READ MORE about ENVISIONING INFORMATION
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 98360
Oslo: AAS & Wahls, 1954. small 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. 85 pages. First edition, limited to 800 copies. The arts of book printing and writing preface a study of Benjamin Franklin and William Morris in this publication. Illustrated in black-and-white. New Year's card of the publisher loosely inserted which is signed in ink. In Swedish. READ MORE about TO BOKTRYKKERE. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, WILLIAM MORRIS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 61574
N.P. n.p., 1978. 12mo. paper wrappers. 29 pages. Printed in an edition limited to 700 copies. A speech celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Klingspor-Museum. READ MORE about DAS BUCH IN UNSERER ZEIT
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 50652
2 volumes.
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1937. 8vo. cloth. xl,292; xx,326 pages. 2 volumes. Second edition. (Appleton p.69). Profusely illustrated. An essential reference book for anyone interested in the history of printing and development of type faces. Covers rubbed. Name in ink. READ MORE about PRINTING TYPES, THEIR HISTORY, FORMS, AND USE A STUDY IN SURVIVALS
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 42917
(New York): Kurt H. Volk, Typographer, n.d. tall 12mo. printed brochure with 16 broadsides loosely inserted along with a four page folder listing type faces available from Volk. A folder containing displays of his typographic skills printed in different colors. Inserted is a four page list of type faces and sizes available. Small tear at spine ends of brochure. READ MORE about A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH A TYPOGRAPHIC JUNGLE
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 91398
