Dreyfus, John.

INTO PRINT, SELECTED WRITINGS ON PRINTING HISTORY, TYPOGRAPHY AND BOOK PRODUCTION.

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

Price: $50.00  other currencies  Order nr. 45937

Drucker, Johanna and Emily McVarish.

GRAPHIC! DESIGN HISTORY.

Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, (2009). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xxx, 386 pages. Table of contents, acknowledgments, preface, glossary, bibliography, photographic credits, index. The social and cultural role of visual communication from prehistory to the present. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. READ MORE

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 121325

(Limited Editions Club). Du Maurier, George.

PETER IBBETSON.

With a Preface by Daphne du Maurier. Illustrated by the Author.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1963. small 4to. leather-backed boards, slipcase. xviii, 344, (2) pages. With a Preface by Daphne du Maurier. Illustrated by the Author. Limited to 1600 numbered copies (LEC 350). With the illustrations taken from the originals in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Typography by George Salter. Edge of slipcase slightly sunned. READ MORE

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 97173

(Limited Editions Club). Du Maurier, George.

PETER IBBETSON.

With a Preface by Daphne du Maurier. Illustrated by the Author.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1963. small 4to. leather-backed boards, slipcase. xviii, 344, (2) pages. With a Preface by Daphne du Maurier. Illustrated by the Author. Limited to 1600 numbered copies (LEC 350). With the illustrations taken from the originals in the Pierpont Morgan Library. Typography by George Salter. In custom slipcase. READ MORE

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 129324

(Cleland, T.M.). Dunsany, Lord.

THE COMPROMISE OF THE KING OF THE GOLDEN ISLES.

New York: The Grolier Club, 1924. 4to. cloth- backed boards. 26 pages. First edition, limited to 300 copies (Asaf 80). Designed and printed by T.M. Cleland including a color title page illustration. This is one of the six books done by eminent American printers at the request of the Grolier Club to demonstrate advances in American typography. Minor rubbing along edges. Small booklabel on front pastedown from the typographic library of Joseph Francis Weiler. READ MORE

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 27881

(Zeitlin, Jake). Edelstein, J.M. (editor).

A GARLAND FOR JAKE ZEITLIN ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 65TH BIRTHDAY & THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS 40TH YEAR IN THE BOOK TRADE.

Los Angeles: Grant Dahlstrom & Saul Marks, 1967. tall 8vo. orange cloth back with patterned cloth sides, paper spine label. (x), 131 pages. First edition, limited to 800 copies. Typography by Marks and printing by Dahlstrom. READ MORE

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 20322

Ellis, Richard (editor).

THE SCHOLARLY PRINTER, A QUARTERLY.

Volume 1, Number 2
New York: American Book-Stratford Press, Inc., (1967). self paper wrappers. 16 pages. Volume 1, Number 2. Only two issues were published of this periodical. READ MORE

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 106735

(Black Sparrow Press). Eshleman, Clayton.

THE GULL WALL.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. 8vo. quarter cloth with illustrated paper-covered boards, paper spine label. 111, (5) pages. First edition of which this is one of 200 copies numbered and signed by the author (Morrow and Cooney, 215). Typography by Graham Mackintosh. Designed by Barbara Martin. Poetry and short essays by the former publisher of Caterpillar magazine. READ MORE

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 70592

(Black Sparrow Press). Eshleman, Clayton.

THE GULL WALL.

Los Angeles, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 111, (5) pages. First edition (Morrow and Cooney, 215a). Typography by Graham Mackintosh. Designed by Barbara Martin. Poetry and short essays by the former publisher of Caterpillar magazine. Biographical sketch of the author, with photograph, follows colophon. READ MORE

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 127494

Ettenberg, Eugene M.

TYPE FOR BOOKS AND ADVERTISING.

New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1948. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 160 pages. First edition, second printing. "A detailed, comprehensive handbook on the many varied applications of all the phases of typography." Jacket worn with pieces chipped away. READ MORE

Price: $12.50  other currencies  Order nr. 21827

Ettenberg, Eugene M.

TYPE FOR BOOKS AND ADVERTISING.

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

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 126851

Ettenberg, Eugene M.

TYPE FOR BOOKS AND ADVERTISING.

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

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 64359

Finsterer-Suber, Gerda.

GEISTIGE VATER DES ABENDLANDES, EINE SAMMLUNG VON HUNDERT BUCHTITELN.

Stuttgart: Chr. Belser Verlag, 1960. large 4to. two-toned paper-covered boards, dust jacket, slipcase. xxvii, not paginated. First edition. Published on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the publisher "Chr. Belser Verlag." A limited amount of copies were made available on the market. Under the rubric of "Spiritual Fathers of the Occident," this volume presents 100 title pages accompanied by short essay descriptions. In addition to general information on particular title pages, these descriptions contain... READ MORE

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 55706