New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1947. 4to. cloth. 160 pages. First edition. "A detailed, comprehensive handbook on the many varied applications of all the phases of typography." Presentation on free endpaper "To my good friend, George L. McKay, Gene Ettenberg, May 7, 1947" and with a one page handwritten copy of a note to "Gene" thanking him for sending along this inscribed copy. READ MORE about TYPE FOR BOOKS AND ADVERTISING
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 54395
New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1947. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 160 pages. First edition. "A detailed, comprehensive handbook on the many varied applications of all the phases of typography." Jacket chipped with tears along edges. READ MORE about TYPE FOR BOOKS AND ADVERTISING
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 126851
New York: Van Nostrand Co., (1948). 4to. cloth. 160 pages. First edition, later printing. "A detailed, comprehensive handbook on the many varied applications of all the phases of typography." Inscribed on free endpaper "March 26, 1949. In memory of a happy day in Utica, To Howard Coggeshall, Gene Ettenberg, O. Alfred Dilman, Lawrence B. Siegfrid" where each of the three have signed their names. READ MORE about TYPE FOR BOOKS AND ADVERTISING
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 64359
Helmstedt: J.C. Schmidt, 1921. tall square 8vo. cloth. 147 pages. History of the University printers in Helmstedt from the 16th century to 1921 issued by Schmidt who took over printing in 1867. Illustrated. With a presentation from one of the Schmidts on the free endpaper. READ MORE about HELMSTEDTER UNIVERSITÄTS-BUCHDRUCKER, MIT EINEM BEITRAG ZUR GESCHICHTE DES HELMSTEDTER...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 34187
N.P. (Editions Rencontre and Erik Nitsche International, 1963). 8vo. paper-covered boards. (i), 105, (7) pages. A history of communication, with chapters on writing, on printing, books, and paper, and on newspapers. Some wear to corners and head and tail of spine. Stamps on front free endpaper and p.1. READ MORE about GESCHICTE DER UBERMITTLUNGSWEGE
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 50902
New York: Hawthorn Books, (1963). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 105, (7) pages. First edition. Volume 9 in a series entitled "The New Illustrated Library of Science and Invention." Sections on writing, books, paper and printing, rise of the press, etc. Jacket chipped with tears. READ MORE about HISTORY OF COMMUNICATIONS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 17176
Heidelberg: H. Tenner, 1969. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 83 pages. Printed in 800 numbered copies; this copy is out of series. Facsimile reprint of the 1890 edition printed in Köln. READ MORE about DIE DEUTSCHEN STERBEBÜCHLEIN VON DER ÄLTESTEN ZEIT DES BUCHDRUCKS BIS ZUM JAHRE 1520
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 80198
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1927). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. xii, 88 pages. First edition. Farrar has written about the value of design and the use of the right type for the right job. Many illustrations including two showing the work of Will Bradley. Lacking dust jacket. Minor soiling and wear to covers. READ MORE about FRED FARRAR'S TYPE BOOK
Price: $18.00 Order nr. 75503
Wien: A. Hartleben's Verlag, 1882. thick 8vo. original decorated and embossed cloth with gilt. viii, 806 pages with 26 plates (14 in color) and 380 text illustrations. First edition. (St. Bride Cat. p.318). Standard 19th century history of book printing, copiously illustrated with facsimiles, type specimens, illustrations of printing presses, information on bookbinding practices and papermaking. Original binding held together with cloth, with the original spine pasted on top. Front hinge cracked and separating from..... READ MORE about ILLUSTRIRTE GESCHICHTE DER BUCHDRUCKERKUNST
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 32355
St. Petersburg, FL: Felten, 1970. 4to. cloth. 303+(1) pages. Completely revised edition. An approach to page design combining layout and typography. Various techniques and applications. "Kitsap Newspaper" written in black marker on top left corner of front paste-down. Slightly shaken, bumped. READ MORE about LAYOUT 4, PRINTING DESIGN + TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 49749
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1894. large 12mo. modern marbled paper wrappers, original wrappers bound-in. viii,48,4 pages. Part of the Bibliothèque Photographique. Text in French. Original wrappers, some soiling, with a little paper loss, pages at each end have a bit more wear than the rest of the book, a few pages are smudged. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about LA PHOTOGRAVURE SANS PHOTOGRAPHIE
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 98536
A Fifteenth-Century Blockbook.
Middletown, Connecticut: Davidson Art Center, 1974. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 111+(1) pages. A Fifteenth-Century Blockbook. Exhibition catalogue for Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University. A transcription and translation of the text of the German fable. Also includes a comprehensive history of blockbooks and discussion of the different versions of The Sick Lionthe tradition behind the story and possible origins for the production of the book itself. Contains many reproductions of illustrations from several blockbooks..... READ MORE about THE FABLE OF THE SICK LION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 77170
New York: Franklin Watts, (1965). square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 48 pages. First edition. Illustrated by the author. Part of a series on Colonial Craftsmen meant for juveniles. Jacket chipped with tears. READ MORE about THE PRINTERS, COLONIAL AMERICAN CRAFTSMEN
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 47077
Buenos Aires: CIGA, 1956. 4to. stapled, stiff paper wrappers. (72), 72, (8), (48) pages with 28 additional leaves of plates. A special issue of the Argentine graphics industry periodical "Argentina Grafica" (No.183, Year XXI, April-June of 1956), featuring a lengthy article by G. Fogli on the origin of writing with many illustrations, some tipped-in, and an appendix of twelve alphabets. With approximately 120 pages of advertisements from printers, suppliers of equipment, engravers, etc., mostly from..... READ MORE about ARGENTINA GRAFICA, ORGANO DE LA CAMARA DE INDUSTRIALES GRAFICOS DE LA ARGENTINA (CIGA
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 51726
London, England: Staples Press, (1949). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 287+(1) pages. First edition. Table of contents, acknowledgments, preface, bibliography, index. Specimens of business forms, including foldouts, tipped in. Dust jacket lightly soiled and chipped. READ MORE about ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT FOR MASTER PRINTERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 125174
New York, NY: privately printed, 1966. 12mo. cloth, glassine dust jacket. vi, 7-30, (4) pages. Typophiles Monographs No. 80. A keepsake published in connection with The Celebration of Printing Week, New York, commemorating the 260th anniversary of Franklin's birth. Foreword by Charles V. Morris. List of contributors includes John Depol. Illustrated. READ MORE about ARTICLES OF BELIEF
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 119128
München: Typographischen Gesellschaft, 1991. 8vo. paper wrappers. 30, (6) pages. Speech celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Munich Typographical Society. READ MORE about FESTVORTRAG ZUM 100JAHRIGEN BESTEHEN DER TYPOGRAPHISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 50603
N.P. American Library Association, 1939. 4to. self paper wrappers. 8 pages. Brief descriptions of those principles which go into good book production. Folded. READ MORE about ESTHETICS OF BOOK MANUFACTURE, ILLUSTRATIONS FOR A TALK TO LIBRARIANS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 18724
2 volumes.
Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer, 1920. tall 8vo. original stiff paper wrappers, enclosed in cloth slipcase. xii,240; iv,148 pages. 2 volumes. An excellent guide to the information available on the book including its binding, bibliography, library science, etc. Chipped around edges. READ MORE about HANDBUCH DER WISSENSCHAFTLICHEN BIBLIOTHEKSKUNDE
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 8877
New York: Burt Franklin, (1970). small 8vo. cloth. xiv, 343 pages. Reprint of the 1899 first edition. Chapters on Public Libraries, the British Museum catalogue, a Universal catalogue, the introduction of European printing into the East, Paraguayan and Argentine Bibliography, the early Italian book trade, the manufacture of fine paper in England and biographies of Panizzi, Jones, Stevens, and Bond. Part of "The Library Series" edited by Garnett. READ MORE about ESSAYS IN LIBRARIANSHIP AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 45589
Berlin: Fachverlag Schiele & Schön GmbH, 1960. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 227+(1) pages. On the basics of printing. Four printing samples inserted in pocket on rear pastedown. Numerous illustrations throughout. Indexed. Tape repair to jacket. READ MORE about UMGANG MIT DER SCHWARZEN KUNST
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 48963
Moscow: Kniga, 1982. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, illustration on front board. 149, (3) pages. Text in Russian. Part of "Istoriia Knizhnogo Iskusstva" series. Foldout frontispiece. History of Russian woodcut book illustration in the first third of the 19th century. Illustrated throughout. Three foldout illustrations. Six tipped-in color illustrations. Introduction, Biographical sketches of authors, editors and illustrators. Endnotes and listing of illustrations. Library of Congress catalogue entry laid in. Boards lightly soiled. READ MORE about EPOKHA POLITIPAZHEI: RUSSKOE TIPOGRAFSKOE ISKUSSTVO PERVOI TRETI XIX VEKI (EPOCH OF WOODCUTS:...
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 108122
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1900. small 4to. original paper-covered boards, paper cover and spine labels. xi, 119 pages. First edition (Hart no.75). With 56 illustrations. Contains many biographical sketches and reproductions of portraits of booksellers and printers. Chipped around edges with paper along hinges partially split. Covers soiled. Bumped corners. Spine cracked down the center. READ MORE about NOTES ON PRINTERS AND BOOKSELLERS WITH A CHAPTER ON CHAP BOOKS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 1534
Baltimore: The Williams and Wilkins Company, 1940. 12mo. cloth. iv, 76 pages. A guide to navigating the process of publishing and printing books. Table of contents. Spine lightly faded. READ MORE about THE AUTHOR PUBLISHER PRINTER COMPLEX
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 115491
Glasgow: Scottish Typographical Association, 1953. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. Color Frontispiece; xv, 268 pages. First edition. Introduction by Thomas Johnston. Nineteen separate chapters covering the Scottish printing industry from 1507 up through 1952. The appendixes reprints the rules of the association as of 1841, gives a list of General Secretaries and has a table of benefits paid over the period 1853 to 1952. Small chip in jacket along back hinge at top. READ MORE about A HUNDRED YEARS OF PROGRESS, THE RECORD OF THE SCOTTISH TYPOGRAPHICAL AS SOCIATION, 1853 TO 1952
Price: $22.50 Order nr. 97316
