East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1919. 8vo. creme-colored paper-covered spine decorated in gilt with brown paper-covered boards stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. 266, (2) pages. McKenna 264. With revisions by Elbert Hubbard II. Typography by Cy Rosen and Axel Edw. Sahlin and binding by Charles Youngers. Covers rubbed and soiled. READ MORE
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 26022
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2008. 8.5 x 11 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 160 pages. First edition. Ephemera has been collected for many years, but only recently has it become widely accepted as material for academic study. This is the first book to discuss ephemera as an aspect of design history, showing how function, production process and period have affected the changing appearance of billheads, trade cards, flyers... READ MORE
Price: $65.00 other currencies Order nr. 95868
Stockholm: The Royal Library, 2002. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (80) pages. Issued as Exhibition Catalogue No. 138 by The Royal Library with comments throughout the catalogue by the editor. Set in Caslon No.540 and printed on Lessebo Book, natural white paper, with Ingres wrappers. The exhibited material (120 entries) is divided by geographical area, and presents us with a composite of 20th century typography and graphic design, from Theodore Low De Vinne (1828-1914) to... READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 72126
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., (1971). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 138 pages. First edition. Includes sections on color, typography and technique. The silver jacket is rubbed. READ MORE
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 4328
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., (1976). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 136 pages. Revised edition. Includes sections on color, typography and technique. Covers soiled. READ MORE
Price: $17.50 other currencies Order nr. 40395
Accompanied by an Original Leaf Printed on Vellum at the Merrymount Press
N.P. Chiswick Book Shop, 1990. folio. cloth, leather spine label, slipcase. xviii, 75+(1) pages. Accompanied by an Original Leaf Printed on Vellum at the Merrymount Press. Limited to 285 copies printed at A. Colish, Inc. with typography by Jerry Kelly (Leaf Book - Chalmers 192). History of the production of this famous book designed and printed by D.B. Updike including information from the files of Bruce Rogers and Stanley Morison. Presentation from the author on... READ MORE
Price: $475.00 other currencies Order nr. 123194
New York: Privately printed, 1943. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. 162 pages. Limited to 1000 copies. With 12 illustrations done in color by the stencil process by the Charlize Brakely Studio and typography by Bradbury Thompson. Contributions by Irvin S. Cobb, John Erskine, Rign Lardner, Don Marquis, Ogden Nash, Burton Rascoe and others. This special issue contains a history of the club from its beginning. Covers soiled. READ MORE
Price: $60.00 other currencies Order nr. 33075
London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1926. small 4to. decorated boards, paper cover label. 50 pages. First edition. (Hart No.107; Appleton no.256). With 50 illustrations. Part of the Periods of Typography series edited by Stanley Morison. Lacks spine and dust jacket. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 41983
London: Grafton & Co., 1959. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 184 pages. Second edition. "A study of typography from the point of view of type design from the invention of the art to the nineteenth century." Minor shelfwear to dustjacket. READ MORE
Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 6307
London: Andre Deutsch, (1966). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 184 pages. Third edition. "A study of typography from the point of view of type design from the invention of the art to the nineteenth century." READ MORE
Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 30591
(Oxford): The Oxford University Press, 1950. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 83-112. An article from "The Library", Fifth Series, Vol. V, No. 2, September 1950. Cover shows shelf-wear. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 100810
(Oxford): The Oxford University Press, 1946. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 97-105. An article from "The Library", Fifth Series, Vol. I, No. 2, Sept. 1946. Cover shows shelf-wear, soiled and coming loose from spine. Tipped-in card for a reprint of the "Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1475-1640" READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 100809
New York: Covici-Friede, 1930. tall 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. (xi), 303 pages. First edition, limited to 1050 copies. (Hart no.134). An important look at bookmaking from the Whittinghams to Elmer Adler. Many facsimile title pages and other illustrations. Essays on William Morris, Pickering, and other influences on American typography. Shows the work of Dwiggins, Rogers, Adler, and many others. Only front cover of jacket is present. READ MORE
Price: $35.00 other currencies Order nr. 19236
Bern: Schweizerischen Gutenbergmuseum, 1945. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (ii), 84 pages, with illustrations. On typography and art from the beginnings of printing to the present day. Well-illustrated. Jacket torn with pieces missing including spine. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 48966
Bern: Schweizerischen Gutenbergmuseum, 1945. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (ii), 84 pages, with illustrations. On typography and art from the beginnings of printing to the present day. Well illustrated. Jacket chipped. READ MORE
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 61708
New York: The Typophiles, 1984. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 13 pages with 8 pages of plates. First edition. Limited to 480 copies. Designed by Jerry Kelly and printed at the press of A. Colish. READ MORE
Price: $35.00 other currencies Order nr. 25365
Cambridge: David Kindersley, (1979). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 51 leaves. First edition. Four pages of text by Kindersley on the drawing of alphabets followed by the plates of demonstration alphabets printed on different colors of paper in different colors of ink. Well preserved copy. READ MORE
Price: $45.00 other currencies Order nr. 21082
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and John Neal, Bookseller, (2009). 4to. hardcover, dust jacket. 112 pages. Reprint with minor corrections of second edition. The craft of calligraphy has a 2000-year history in the Western world. Up to the time of the Renaissance, calligraphy was the only means of preserving literature, and so, it played a vital role in the spread of learning, culture, and religion. Historical scripts were not rigidly-fixed "styles;" they represented the... READ MORE
Price: $39.95 other currencies Order nr. 52752
Amsterdam: Letterproef Drukkerij Koersen, n.d. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers with cameo cutout exposing title. 64 pages. Text in Dutch. Specimens of numerous typefaces offered by the firm. Includes lines and ornaments. Table of contents and table of proofreader's marks. Very light soiling on front wrapper near fore-edge. READ MORE
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 109719
Soupis Knizní Grafiky: Bozena Polívková
Prague: Ceskoslovenských výtvarntých umelcü, 1961. 8vo. cloth, title stamped on spine, VHB design stamped on front board, dust jacket. 138, (6) pages. Soupis Knizní Grafiky: Bozena Polívková. Text in Czech. No. 3 in "Czech Books" series. Study of the book illustrations of Vratislav Hugo Brunner (1886-1928). Pastedowns and endpapers decorated. Frontispiece. Introductory essay. Chronological catalogue of Brunner's work. Black and white and color illustrations. Bibliography, index and listing of illustrations. Dust jacket slightly worn at... READ MORE
Price: $65.00 other currencies Order nr. 107590
With Incidental Alarums, and Excursions Into Collateral Fields. Checklist by Joseph W. Rogers.
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1981. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. xxii, 271 pages. With Incidental Alarums, and Excursions Into Collateral Fields. Checklist by Joseph W. Rogers. Reprint of the 1943 first edition which was printed in a very small number. Frank E. Hopkins set up a press in the attic of his "Red House" in Jamaica, New York in 1896 and named it after his daughter Marion. He printed the first... READ MORE
Price: $35.00 other currencies Order nr. 1347
Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, (1971). large 8vo. quarter cloth with decorated paper-covered boards. 56, (2) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 150 copies designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge (Carter, checklist). Features characteristic of all Rampant Lions work, from its first book in 1934 are--"a general acceptance of the classical tradition of typography as practiced by Bruce Rogers, Francis Meynell and their peers but (as with... READ MORE
Price: $85.00 other currencies Order nr. 63689
Boston: David R. Godine, (1990). thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 428, (2) pages. First edition. A great book on the history, development and use of type. The author discusses thirty contemporary printing types in an interesting and informative manner. Also contains a chapter on Type Making from Punch to Computer. Well-illustrated with reproductions of complete fonts, examples of fine design and other illustrations. Near fine, small smudging on bottom. READ MORE
Price: $75.00 other currencies Order nr. 28575
Boston: David R. Godine, (1990). thick 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 428, (2) pages. First edition. A great book on the history, development and use of type. The author discusses thirty contemporary printing types in an interesting and informative manner. Also contains a chapter on Type Making from Punch to Computer. Well-illustrated with reproductions of complete fonts, examples of fine design and other illustrations. Jacket chipped at head of spine. Name in ink on front pastedown. READ MORE
Price: $55.00 other currencies Order nr. 128610
N.P. Typophiles, 1992. small 8vo. cord tied stiff paper wrappers. (12) pages. A Typophile Keepsake and Red Cat Typography Pamphlet, printed for the Typophiles, Engdahl Typography, and Alexander Lawson, limited to an edition of three hundred copies. Set in Linotype and Monotype Baskerville types on Mohawk Vellum paper. Printed on a 1922 Kelly B and a Colts Universal platen press. Alexander Lawson taught typography at the School of Printing, Rochester Institute of Technology, from 1947 to 1977. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 71981
