New York: Arno Press, 1975. small 4to. cloth. This periodical was the post war successor of Typography. Edited by Robert Harling and filled with articles on illustration. Includes many black-and-white illustrations. READ MORE about ALPHABET AND IMAGE, A QUARTERLY MAGAZINE OF TYPOGRAPHY. Numbers 1-8, complete set, in two volumes
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 40376
N.P. Xlibris Corporation, 2010). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. iv, 264, (2) pages. Memoir of John Mannering Harrison, who became President of the International Society of Typographic Designers. Table of contents. Presentation by the author. Dust jacket lightly worn, corners bumped. READ MORE about THE PENANCE WALK
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 119988
N.P. Midland Master Printers' Alliance, n.d. small 4to. self paper wrappers, clear plastic wrapper on which is printed "With the compliments of the Midland Master Printers' Alliance" (6) pages. Photograph of author on first leaf. Two leaves showing German typography. READ MORE about THE TENDENCY IN MODERN GERMAN TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 78927
2 volumes.
Hamburg: Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 1977. small 4to. cloth, paper spine and cover labels, cardboard slipcase. 369, (3); 191+(1) pages. 2 volumes. Edition limited to 1400 copies. Intended as a parallet work to Maximilian-Gesellschaft's 1963 publication, Deutschen Buchkunst 1890 bis 1960 by Georg Kurt. Surveys a century in which old graphic techniques to illustrate and embellish books were gradually giving way to the new. Volume I discusses typography, illustrations and illustrators, journals and almanacs, bookclubs, the art of..... READ MORE about BUCHKUNST UND LITERATUR IN DEUTSCHLAND, 1750 BIS 1850
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 62364
New York: Allworth Press, (1998). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xiii, 273+(1) pages. First edition. READ MORE about THE EDUCATION OF A GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 121276
New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, (1986). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 376, (8) pages. First edition. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white. READ MORE about GRAPHIC DESIGN USA: 7
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 105684
N.P. Advertising Typographers Assoc. of America, (1947). small 4to. cloth. 71 pages. First edition. Sections on printing, book illustration, typography, etc. Inscribed by Maurice Annenberg on front pastedown. READ MORE about ATA ADVERTISING PRODUCTION HAND BOOK
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 8396
N.P. Advertising Typographers Assoc. of America, (1954). small 4to. cloth. 91 pages. Second edition. Sections on printing, book illustration, typography, etc. READ MORE about ATA ADVERTISING PRODUCTION HAND BOOK
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 13930
An artist's commentary on theory, gesture, photography, compostition, color, light, and the typeface Penumbra
(Florence MA): Kat Ran Press, 2007. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 60 pages. An artist's commentary on theory, gesture, photography, compostition, color, light, and the typeface Penumbra. Part of the Kat Ran Essays in Philatelics series. First edition. Hidy describes the entire process and evolution of the stamp. This stamp is believed to be the only U.S. stamp with the artwork and typeface designed by the same individual. Many color illustrations, mostly Hidy's work but some..... READ MORE about LANCE HIDY: DESIGNING THE MENTORING STAMP
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 99451
(New York): Thames and Hudson, (1994). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 224 pages. First edition. With over 800 illustrations, 29 in color. READ MORE about GRAPHIC DESIGN, A CONCISE HISTORY
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 121960
Londres: Le Studio, 1914. 4to. original stiff paper wrappers. vii, 276 pages. First edition, the edition in French. Eight separate chapters on the art of the book for seven countries. Orcutt has covered America with Newdigate on typography in England and Cockerell on bookbinding in England. The other countries covered are France, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Switzerland. Many illustrations. Minor chipping at spine ends. READ MORE about L' ART DU LIVRE ETUDE SUR QUELQUES-UNS DES DERNIERES CREATIONS EN TYPOGRAPHIE, ORNEMENTATION DE...
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 3781
Londres: Le Studio, 1914. 4to. original cloth, top edge gilt. vii, 276 pages. First edition, the edition in French. Eight separate chapters on the art of the book for seven countries. Orcutt has covered America with Newdigate on typography in England and Cockerell on bookbinding in England. The other countries covered are France, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Switzerland. Many illustrations. Covers rubbed. Slightly shaken. READ MORE about L' ART DU LIVRE ETUDE SUR QUELQUES-UNS DES DERNIERES CREATIONS EN TYPOGRAPHIE, ORNEMENTATION DE...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 75090
New York: Dorset Books, (1990). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 284 pages. Reprint of the 1914 first edition. S-K 122. With sections on British types, Fine Bookbinding in England, the Art of the Book in Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Sweden and America. Many illustrations including a number in color. Jacket has piece missing along top of front cover. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE BOOK A REVIEW OF SOME RECENT EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN WORK IN TYPOGRAPHY, PAGE...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 126982
New York: Dorset Books, (1990). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 284 pages. Reprint of the 1914 first edition. S-K 122. With sections on British types, Fine Bookbinding in England, the Art of the Book in Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, Sweden and America. Many illustrations including a number in color. Jacket chipped with small tears along edges. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE BOOK A REVIEW OF SOME RECENT EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN WORK IN TYPOGRAPHY, PAGE...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 42116
Delaware Art Museum, April 1910-1925.
Wilmington (DE): Delaware Art Museum, 1975. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 3-176 pages. Delaware Art Museum, April 1910-1925. Although the American artists featured here had little involvement in typography, book design, or book illustration, their adaptation of European modernism influenced these in the 1930's and later. Fifty-six artists with brief bio-historico-descriptive articles and reproductions of a few works. Eleven short introductory articles, about 160 black-and-white illustrations, indexes. READ MORE about AVANT-GARDE PAINTING AND SCULPTURE IN AMERICA 1910-1925
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 53486
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 about THE LIBERATORS, BEING ADVENTURES IN THE CITY OF FINE MINDS
Price: $25.00 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 about THE DESIGN AND PRINTING OF EPHEMERA IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA, 1720-1920
Price: $65.00 save 50% $32.50 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 about TYPOGRAPHICA, AN EXHIBITION OF 20TH CENTURY TYPOGRAPHY AND GRAPHIC DESIGN
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 72126
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 about PUBLICATION DESIGN, A GUIDE TO PAGE LAYOUT TYPOGRAPHY, FORMAT AND STYLE
Price: $17.50 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 about THE MAKING OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER OF 1928
Price: $475.00 Order nr. 123194
(New York): The Grolier Club, (1999). 4to. cloth. xxx, (ii), 110 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press in an edition limited to two hundred and fifty case bound copies set in Dante type. Designed by Jerry Kelly. Grolier Club catalogue of the 100 most beautiful, finely printed books produced during the 20th century arranged in chronologicial order. "The idea of one book a year, on average, seems almost presumptuous. Yet one must begin somewhere, and..... READ MORE about A CENTURY FOR THE CENTURY, FINE PRINTED BOOKS FROM 1900 TO 1999
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 73810
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 about THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DUTCH TREAT CLUB
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 33075
Introduced by Louis Auchincloss. Illustrated by Lawrence Beall Smith.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1971. tall 8vo. quarter leather, slipcase. xiv, 204, (2) pages. Introduced by Louis Auchincloss. Illustrated by Lawrence Beall Smith. Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by Smith (LEC 439). Printed at The Thistle Press with typography by Bert Clarke. Monthly Letter / prospectus loosely inserted. Fine in fine slipcase. READ MORE about WASHINGTON SQUARE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 27444
(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 about " PRINTERS' 'COPY BOOKS' AND THE BLACK MARKET IN THE ELIZABETHAN BOOK TRADE."
Price: $15.00 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 about BIBLIO-TYPOGRAPHICA, A SURVEY OF CONTEMPORARY FINE PRINTING STYLE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 19236
