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
Washington, DC: (Judd and Detweiler), 1946. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 41+(1) pages. A collection of songs sung by North and South during the American Civil War. Designed and directed by Lester Douglas. Illustrations by Charles Dunn and Ralph Patterson. Note by Douglas on front free endpaper notes this copy printed "before corrections." Gift card laid in. READ MORE about SONGS BETWEEN THE STATES
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 119200
Washington, DC: (Printing House of Judd & Detweiler), 1946. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. (ii), 41, (1) pages. Designed and directed by Lester Douglas. Illustrated by Charles Dunn and Ralph Patterson. A collection of songs sung by Union and Confederate troops during the Civil War. Dust jacket torn along top of spine. READ MORE about SONGS OF THE STATES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 118872
Old Georgetown: Ken Hammel and Lynn Moore, 1959. small 4to. paper wrappers, paper cover label, cord-tied. 10 leaves. Christmas poems. Designed and directed by Lester Douglas, with drawings by Lyle Justis. READ MORE about TWO POEMS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 51105
Clerkenwell: Wace & Co., (1966). tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 79 pages. Third edition. Major sections on the setting of text matter and the setting of displayed matter. Illustrated with examples. Jacket chipped along edges. READ MORE about FINER POINTS IN THE SPACING & ARRANGEMENT OF TYPE
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 22335
New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, (2005). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 192 pages. Table of contents, acknowledgments, endnotes, select bibliography, index, photographic credits. A history of American book cover design. Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about BY ITS COVER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 122256
New York: The Typophiles, 1994. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 42, (4) pages. Limited to 500 copies. A Typophile Monograph, New Series Number Eleven. A listing of the lectures, which ran in various series from 1965 to 1982, arranged by Dr. Robert L. (Doc) Leslie, the topics being typography, printing, paper, book design, calligraphy, and other aspects of the graphic arts. Illustrated by Lili Cassel Wronker. Distributed for the Typophiles by Oak Knoll Press. READ MORE about THE HERITAGE OF THE GRAPHIC ARTS LECTURE SERIES: A COMPLETE LISTING
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 61090
New York: The Typophiles, 1994. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 42, (4) pages. Limited to 500 copies. A Typophile Monograph, New Series Number Eleven. A listing of the lectures which ran in various series from 1965 to 1982, arranged by Dr. Robert L. (Doc) Leslie, the topics being typography, printing, paper, book design, calligraphy, and other aspects of the graphic arts. Illustrated by Lili Cassel Wronker. READ MORE about THE HERITAGE OF THE GRAPHIC ARTS LECTURE SERIES: A COMPLETE LISTING
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 48729
Boston: David R. Godine, (1995). 8vo. cloth. x, 339 +(1) pages. First edition. A compilation of writings on many aspects of printing and book design, chosen by the author. The topics are varied, and include eighteenth-& nineteenth-century studies, private presses, type design and manufacture, exhibitions and speculations. In an interesting chapter on twentieth-century typographers, the author discusses Stanley Morrison, Eric Gill, Bruce Rogers and several other well known printers. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles. Handlist... READ MORE about INTO PRINT, SELECTED WRITINGS ON PRINTING HISTORY, TYPOGRAPHY AND BOOK PRODUCTION
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 45937
Los Angeles: Occidental College, 1990. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 37 pages. Illustrated. READ MORE about A LONDONER'S VIEW OF THREE LOS ANGELES PRINTER FRIENDS AND THEIR WORK: GRANT DAHLSTRON, SAUL...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 37935
(New York: Grossman Publishers, 1974). tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 230, (2) pages. Reprint of first edition. Discussion of design by industrial designers including such subjects as design of telephones, cars, airplanes, etc. READ MORE about DESIGNING FOR PEOPLE
Price: $18.00 Order nr. 114643
2 volumes
Kristiania: S. M. Brydes Bogtrykkeri, 1911. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (x),118; (xii),79+(1) pages. 2 volumes. Published on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the library's founding, this history includes a floor plan and several black-and-white illustrations. The wrappers of this set are worn, moderately soiled, and have darkened around the edges. The spines of both volumes are damaged. The front wrapper of the first volume is detached but present. The interiors, notable for... READ MORE about UNIVERSITETS-BIBLIOTHEKETS FESTSKRIFT: I ANLEDNING AF 100-AARS-JUBILÆET, DET KGL. FREDERIKS...
Price: $34.00 Order nr. 90909
New York: Granary Books, (1995). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 377 pages. First edition. Contains 200 halftone illustrations. Covers Russian Futurism and Surrealism to Fluxus, Conceptual art to Postmodernism. READ MORE about THE CENTURY OF ARTISTS' BOOKS
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 43539
Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 99, (3) pages. Second printing, reprinted from the first edition which was limited to only 325 copies. Five provocative essays describe Duncan's ideal in his own life and explores its implications for today's hand-printer and for future generations interested in typography and printing. This popular book contains essays on the Cummington Press, The Technology of Hand Printing, The Art of the Printed Book, My... READ MORE about DOORS OF PERCEPTION, ESSAYS IN BOOK TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $16.50 Order nr. 63597
With a Foreword by Alexander Lawson.
San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1977. small 4to. cloth. xii, 87 pages. With a Foreword by Alexander Lawson. Second edition, with 28 new plates not in the first edition. One of 700 copies. READ MORE about THE BOOKS OF WAD; A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE BOOKS DESIGNED BY W.A. DWIGGINS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 2419
With a Selective Check List Compiled by Dorothy Abbe & Rollo Silver.
New York: The Typophiles, 1960. small 8vo. cloth. xvi,141,(3),(16); viii,142-271,(3) pages. With a Selective Check List Compiled by Dorothy Abbe & Rollo Silver. First edition, limited to 1050 copies. Chap Books 35 and 36. Many color illustrations. Well preserved set. READ MORE about POSTSCRIPTS ON DWIGGINS, ESSAYS & RECOLLECTIONS
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 116233
With Informal Comments on a number of the Books by W.A.D. together with a Prologue "W.A. Dwiggins, Artist of the Book" by Rudolph Ruzicka.
Boston: The Bookbuilders Workshop, 1949. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 22, (2) pages. With Informal Comments on a number of the Books by W.A.D. together with a Prologue "W.A. Dwiggins, Artist of the Book" by Rudolph Ruzicka. Limited to 350 copies. READ MORE about CHECK LIST OF AN EXHIBITION OF THE WORKS OF W.A. DWIGGINS
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 11799
Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Co., (1936). square 8vo. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards. xiv, 166 pages. First edition. Designed by W. A. Dwiggins. A history of the linotype. Near fine. READ MORE about THE POWER OF PRINT - AND MEN COMMEMORATING THE FIFTY YEARS OF LINOTYPE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PRINTING...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 2281
New York: Marchbanks Press, 1925. 9.25" x 4" Single sheet. With 3 inch square drawing by Dwiggins printed in brown ink at the head of the calendar. READ MORE about MARCHBANKS PRESS CALENDAR FOR JUNE, 1925
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 2274
With Pictographs by W.A. Dwiggins.
Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1941. 8vo. half cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 81, (3) pages. With Pictographs by W.A. Dwiggins. First edition. (Agner 41-17). Dwiggins designed the book including the chapter illustrations and the design on the cover and jacket. Pieces of jacket missing along edges. READ MORE about BOMB THAT WOULDN'T GO OFF AND OTHER FABLES FROM MORONIA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 16125
Hingham: Press of the Little Red Hen, 1950. square 8vo. boards, wrap-around paper cover label. (24) pages. First edition. Not in Agner. Title page designed by Dwiggins and printed in two colors. 225 copies were printed of which 125 were for sale. Minor spotting of front cover. READ MORE about TWELVE POEMS
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 116237
Hingham: Press of the Little Red Hen, 1950. square 8vo. boards, wrap-around paper cover label. (24) pages. First edition. Not in Agner. Title page with decorations by Dwiggins and printed in two colors. Printing by Dorothy Abbe. A copy of the prospectus which is inserted states that 225 copies were printed of which 125 were for sale. Spine faded and with wear along hinge. Presentation from Shimer on free endpaper. READ MORE about TWELVE POEMS
Price: $115.00 Order nr. 25492
