Bethesda: The Gallimaufry Press, 1974. oblong 12mo. paper wrappers. 8 leaves. Limited to 100 copies printed by Ken Hammel. Reproductions of Binny & Ronaldson Roman No.1, Farmer's original Old Style Italic and Goudy's Newstyle. READ MORE about 3 AMERICAN TYPE FACES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 4163
(Cambridge, MA): The Houghton Library, Harvard University, 1993. 4to. foldout brochurel. (8) pages. Exhibition at the Houghton Library, Harvard University, January-February 1993. Includes exhibition checklist and essay by Patricia Peterson and Gino Lee. Also with descriptive information for identifying type faces.. Front cover illustrated. READ MORE about ABOUT FACES: HISTORIC AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN TYPE DESIGN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 119207
4 Volumes.
(Cloquet, MN: Potlatch Corporation, 1999-2000). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 80; 108; 72; 80 pages. 4 Volumes. The Potlatch Design Series depicting some of the company's noteworthy productions of the 20th century. The four volumes feature tyopgraphy, posters, annual reports, and icons, respectively. Color illustrations throughout. First five leaves of first volume separated. READ MORE about AMERICAN DESIGN CENTURY POTLATCH
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 121543
N.P. University of Missouri, 1951. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers with plastic spiral spine. (viii), 268 pages. Revised edition, limited to 500 copies. Thirteen different sections. Wrappers tanned. Name in ink on half-title. READ MORE about ANNOTATED CHECK LIST OF SOME TYPOGRAPHIC SOURCES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 7743
New York, NY: Lewis F. White, n.d. 32mo. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages. Announcement concerning the firm's publishing activities. Small spot on front wrapper. READ MORE about AN ANNOUNCEMENT
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 119194
Frankfurt am Main: Firma Ludwig & Mayer, (1935). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper envelope. (9) pages. First edition. A speech delivered to Franz Moritz on the occasion of his 50th year with the typefoundry Ludwig & Mayer. Richard Ludwig extols his employee's service. In German. Light foxing to covers. Small tears on envelope. READ MORE about ANSPRACHE AN HERRN FRANZ LAVER MORITZ ANLÄßLICH DER FEIER SEINES FÜNFZIGJÄHRIGEN JUBILÄUMS...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 63200
Takeley: Elkin Mathews LTD, n.d. 8vo. later cloth, leather spine label, with original paper wrappers bound in. variously paginated. Catalogue number 152 in five parts. Concerning type specimens, fine printing, bibliographies and illustrated books about books and the book arts. Frontispiece, black-and-white illustrations. Rear board slightly bumped at the bottom corner. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE BOOK
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 105174
N.P. Bauer, 1937. 4to. four pages stapled together. With full page color plate showing the famous Bauer "family tree of printing types." Each branch of the tree is labeled with a type face with the name printed in the actual face. The facing page contains a short history of each face. Three pages of text photocopied from original. Family tree plate is the original. Fine copy.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about BAUER'S FAMILY TREE OF PRINTING TYPES, PRINTED ON THE OCCASION OF THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY...
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 28905
New York, NY: The Bauer Type Foundry, n.d. 4to. paper portfolio. unpaginated. A portfolio of various type faces offered by Bauer including two price lists. Small tear at bottom of spine. Covers slightly tanned. READ MORE about BERNHARD TYPES
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 133600
New York: Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 112 pages. "European, English and American Literature - The Fine Arts, including Painting, Engraving and Architecture - Genealogy & Heraldry - Incunabula - Manuscripts - Dictionaries and Vocabularies - The Arts of teh Book, including formation of libraries, the Book Trade, Typography, Illustration and Binding - mainly from the library of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, the noted 19th century historian and collector, co-founder of the..... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND REFERENCE BOOKS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 101336
München: Verlag Dokumentation, 1976. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (ii), 317, (3) pages. First edition. A festgabe for Friedrich Adolf Schmidt-Künsemüller on his 65th birthday. Twenty-two essays are included by notable scholars in the field. Topics range from paper presses in medieval Köln to the problem of highschool libraries in Germany. Illustrated in black-and-white. READ MORE about BIBLIOTHEK UND BUCH IN GESCHICHTE UND GEGENWART. FESTGABE FÜR FRIEDRICH ADOLF...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 61751
Stockholm: Lindfors Bokforlag, (1937). thick small 4to. cloth with leather spine labels. xi, 571 pages. Massive study of modern aspects of book production written by a series of authors including chapters by Hugo Lagerstrom and Bror Zachrisson. Many illustrations throughout text. Includes a section of paper specimens. Labels faded. READ MORE about BOKTRYCKARKONST, HANTVERKETS BOK
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 32944
Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, 1993. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 68 pages. With special articles by Tom Taylor giving a survey of American typefounders, a look at the private collection of Travis Beck, a description of the Barrois collection of printing ephemera and a history of the Providence Public Library by Philip J. Weimerskirch. READ MORE about BOOKWAYS. 7
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 43040
Paris: Chambre Syndicale Typographique Parisienne, 1925. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 80 pages followed by the specially printed typographic examples. A special number issued by this group of Pariesene book professionals. This magnificent issue has paper supplied by different manufactures containing printing by various type founders. Filled with illustrations and a section of typographic examples printed on different colored paper stock. Small tear in front hinge at top; corner bumped. READ MORE about BULLETIN OFFICIEL DES COURS PROFESSIONNELS
Price: $275.00 Order nr. 105400
(New York, NY: Carlos Lopez Press, 1950). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. (8) pages. Excerpts from Calkins's The Book and Job Print. Initial and colophon designed by Ceil Smith Thayer. Tipped-in portrait of Calkins on front free endpaper. Wrappers lightly sunned. READ MORE about CAPS & LOWER CASE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 122219
Paris, France: Compagnie Française, d'Éditions Emmanuel Olive, n.d. (1960). 4to. paper-covered boards. unpaginated. Text in French. A collection of typography, illustration, advertising and other specimens by various French firms. Lists of artists and collaborators, printers, paper manufacturers, and photographers follows text. Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges. Inside back hinge cracked. Lacking dust jacket. READ MORE about CARACTÉRE NOËL
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 132240
(Washington, DC: International Typographic Composition Association), n.d, (circa 1966). oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages. Preface, list of schools offering typographic programs. Designed to assist those looking for a career in typography. Illustrated. READ MORE about A CAREER IN TYPOGRAPHY TODAY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 122113
2 volumes.
N.P. Privately printed for Napier College of Commerce & Technology, 1976. 8vo. cloth. xxxi,332; xii,333-685 pages. 2 volumes. With typographical notes by Harry Carter and an essay on the Printing of Illustrations by Frank P. Restall. This library was formed by the collector to demonstrate printing, typography and book illustration techniques from the beginning of printing. With a biographical sketch of Clark. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE EDWARD CLARK LIBRARY
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 30176
New York: Lewis F. White, 1951. small 4to. box containing the greeting leaf and many pieces of printed stationery. Box containing printed stationery for O. Alfred Dickman at the Herald Tribune with printed Christmas greeting and original mailing label present. White owned L.F. White, Typography and Printing, and a label to this effect is on the front cover of the box. READ MORE about CHRISTMAS GREETINGS FROM LEWIS F. WHITE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 94994
New York / Avenel: Glorya Hale, 1996. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 223 pages. Clip art images taken from the 1900 edition of the American Type Founders Cut Book. Spine of dust jacket faded, else fine.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about CLASSIC CLIP ART: THOUSANDS OF COPYRIGHT-FREE IMAGES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 135173
(Arlington, VA: Cooke Typographers), n.d. 8vo. paper wrappers. 48 pages. Type faces and borders offered by Cooke. List of trade customs. Standard proofreaders' marks on inside back wrapper. READ MORE about COOKE TYPOGRAPHERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 114781
New York: The New York Public Library, 1962. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 44 pages. Selections chosen from the Robinson-Pforzheimer collection. Covers toned along edge. Signed by Ruari McLean at top of first page. READ MORE about CUTS, BORDERS, AND ORNAMENTS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 38006
New York: The New York Public Library, 1962. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 44 pages. Selections chosen from the Robinson-Pforzheimer collection. Covers toned along edge. READ MORE about CUTS, BORDERS, AND ORNAMENTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 125865
First Series
Berkeley (CA): Poltroon Press, 1986. cards (approx. 5.5 x 3.875 in. / 14 x 9.8 cm.) in a folder with flaps. First Series. Revised and expanded. Eleven "typost" cards (like postcards) with a text on the reverse side describing a typeface and printed in that face. READ MORE about THE DEVELOPMENT OF BOOK TYPES, ILLUSTRATED IN COMPOSITIONS FROM THE CASES AT THE POLTROON PRESS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 121430
N.P. Poltroon Press, 1978. 8vo, foldout brochure. Limited to 40 copies. Type faces employed in the publications of the Poltroon Press. Foldout brochure. READ MORE about DISPLAY OF TYPE IN THE CASES OF POLTROON PRESS & NOVELTY CO
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 132472
