London: B.T. Batsford, 1887. 12mo. original blue cloth. xi, 49, (3) pages. Textbooks of Ornamental Design series, II. Frontispiece. Preface by the author. Decorated endpapers. 38 black and white plates with descriptive list of plates. Boards warped and stained. Hinges cracked. Early pages detached. Bookplate on front pastedown. READ MORE about THE PLANNING OF ORNAMENT
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 108672
With an introduction by Hermann Zapf
New York: The Grolier Club, 2006. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 48 pages. With an introduction by Hermann Zapf. Gotthard de Beauclair was a leading twentieth-century book designer. He produced some of the finest limited edition books through his craft techniques and use of precious materials. He stands as a model of fine bookmaking. This exhibition catalogue reveals his typography and design work for various German publishers. It includes fifteen color and black-and-white illustration and..... READ MORE about GOTTHARD DE BEAUCLAIR: ART AND LITERATURE THROUGH TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 106666
2 volumes.
New York: The Typophiles, 1968. 12mo. cloth, slipcase. viii,87+(1); (viii),173,(3) pages. 2 volumes. Limited to 500 copies. Chap Book no.XLVII. Slipcase faded along edges. READ MORE about THEODORE LOW DEVINNE, TOGETHER WITH A LIST OF DEVINNE'S WRITINGS, HIS REFLECTIONS ON THE CENTURY...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 2109
Part of the Practice of Typography Series.
New York: The Century Co., 1902. small 8vo. cloth, leather spine label, top edge gilt. x, 476 pages. Part of the Practice of Typography Series. Second edition. (Hart no.14). Spine label shows rubbing and a bit of chipping. Bookplate. READ MORE about CORRECT COMPOSITION A TREATISE ON SPELLING, ABBREVIATIONS, THE COMPOUNDING AND DIVISION OF WORDS,...
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 24759
New York: Oswald Publishing Co., 1921. 8vo. cloth. x, 3-476 pages. Reprint of the second edition.(Hart no.14). Covers rubbed around edges. Corner bumped. READ MORE about CORRECT COMPOSITION A TREATISE ON SPELLING, ABBREVIATIONS, THE COMPOUNDING AND DIVISION OF WORDS,...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 30267
New York: The Century Co., 1901. small 8vo. cloth, leather spine label, top edge gilt. viii, 476 pages. First edition. (Hart no.14). Covers rubbed. Spine label has very small piece missing. Label removed from corner of free endpaper leaving a mark. READ MORE about CORRECT COMPOSITION A TREATISE ON SPELLING, ABBREVIATIONS, THE COMPOUNDING AND DIVISION OF WORDS,...
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 121944
New York: The Century Co., 1902. 8vo. cloth, leather spine label, top edge gilt. xx, 485 pages. First edition. (Hart no.15). Hundreds of illustrations.With the bookplate and ink signature of Gavin Bridson. Covers rubbed with wear at spine ends. Leather spine label partially lacking. READ MORE about A TREATISE ON TITLE-PAGES, WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS IN FACSIMILE AND SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE...
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 20029
New York: The Century Co., 1914. 8vo. cloth, leather spine label. xx, 485 pages. Reprint of the 1902 first edition. (Hart no.15). Hundreds of illustrations. Leather spine label chipped and rubbed with loss. Name stamped in ink on front pastedown. READ MORE about A TREATISE ON TITLE-PAGES, WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS IN FACSIMILE AND SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 88448
New York: Haskell House Publishers, 1972. 8vo. cloth. xx, 485 pages. Reprint of the first edition. (Hart no.15). Hundreds of illustrations. Near fine. READ MORE about A TREATISE ON TITLE-PAGES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 104957
N.P. (Stone House Press, 1990). tall 8vo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages printed French fold. A Typophile Keepsake produced for the Christmas luncheon by The Stone House Press. Wood engraving on front cover by John DePol. READ MORE about JOSEPH BLUMENTHAL, HIS LIFE AND WORK, 1897-1990
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 88417
N.P. The Typophiles, 1984. small 8vo. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. With a full color woodcut by John DePol of Leslie on front cover. READ MORE about TO DR. ROBERT LINCOLN LESLIE ON HIS NINETY-NINTH BIRTHDAY. THE TYPOPHILES. DECEMBER 1984
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 88420
The Seventeenth Annual of the American Center for Design, Design Year in Review
(Chicago): American Center for Design, (1995). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 156 pages. The Seventeenth Annual of the American Center for Design, Design Year in Review. A catalogue of the 100 winners of the seventeenth annual design competition held by the American Center for Design. The competition is considered the toughest graphic design competition in America. The catalogue Includes full-color photographs of each winning design as well as notes from the jurors and essays by..... READ MORE about THE 100 SHOW
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 92093
Mainz: Gutenberg-Museum, 1966. 8vo. self paper wrappers. unpaginated. Text in German. Exhibition of book covers presented by the Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, in 1966. Includes the 19th century, the Jugendstil movement, and the post-World War II period. Black and white illustrations. List of artists and bibliography. READ MORE about DEUTSCHE BUCHUMSCHLÄGE AUS SIEBZIG JAHREN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 114765
Leipzig: Buch-und Bibliothekswesen, 1962. 4to. cloth. xxiv, 402 pages of text followed by plates of illustrations. Nineteen chapters concerning German books written as part of this Festschrift. READ MORE about DEUTSCHE BUCHEREI, 1912-1962 FESTSCHRIFT ZUM FÜNFZIGJÄHRIGEN BESTEHEN DER DEUTSCHEN...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 2099
London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1933. square 8vo. cloth. 49, (7) pages. Well illustrated manual covering all aspects of design with some application to books. READ MORE about THE ELEMENTS OF DESIGN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 39225
New York: Dover, (1982). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 603, (15) pages. A reprint of the 1953 edition. Diringer examines the book from its origins as clay tablets in 3500 B.C. to the introduction of printing. With 200 illustrations. Ink ownership inscription in corner of half-title. READ MORE about THE BOOK BEFORE PRINTING ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND ORIENTAL
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 2141
London: Faber & Faber, (1967). thick 8vo. cloth. 514 pages. Revised edition. "Virtually an encyclopedia of the hand-illuminated book." An historical account. Many illustrations including some in color. READ MORE about THE ILLUMINATED BOOK, ITS HISTORY AND PRODUCTION
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 53617
New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1998. square 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 144 pages. An introduction to the craft of bookmaking, especially binding. Table of contents, introduction, list of suppliers, selected bibliography, credits and acknowledgments, index. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about BOOKWORKS: BOOKS, MEMORY, AND PHOTO ALBUMS, JOURNALS, AND DIARIES MADE BY HAND
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 121051
Washington: Library of Congress, 1949. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (22) pages. With a three page introduction by Harry Richards. READ MORE about BOOKS DESIGNED & DIRECTED BY LESTER DOUGLAS, EXHIBITED AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 19527
N.P. Privately printed (by Lester Douglas), 1934. 8vo. paper-covered boards, paper cover label. (30) pages. Printed by hand on fine paper with decorative ornaments in blue ink. READ MORE about AFTER THE PASSAGE OF WINTER, IN COMMEMORATION OF THE LIFE AND PASSING OF JENNIE THERESA DOUGLAS,...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 42675
Washington, DC: (House of Judd & Detweiler), 1932. small 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. 39+(1) pages. Limited to 675 copies. Published at Christmastime 1932. Designed and directed by Lester Douglas. Illustration by Benjamin Greenstein. Boards scuffed and rubbed at edges and along spine. READ MORE about IN THE IMAGE OF MAN
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 119213
Washington: Lester Douglas, 1949. 8vo. limp cloth. (22) pages. Douglas's Christmas booklet. Presentation from Douglas on colophon page. Initial letters by Cal Hoke. READ MORE about ONE THERE WAS IN PALESTINE
Price: $11.00 Order nr. 41355
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
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. Presentation on free endpaper "To Norman Bate, Prop, the Sometime Press, A.S. Lawson, Press of the Good Mountain, Dec. 1961." READ MORE about FIRST BIRTHDAY BOOK, 33 LD BALDY EAGLE MARKS BY ARTIST-DESIGNER FRIENDS OF BALDY FOR WHIMSY AND...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 126904
Washington: AIGA, 1949. 8vo. paper wrappers. 35 pages. Biographical comments by this book designer. READ MORE about NOTES ALONG THE TYPOGRAPHIC WAY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 2177
