THE EDUCATION OF A GRAPHIC DESIGNER.
New York: Allworth Press, (1998). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xiii, 273+(1) pages. First edition. A fine copy. READ MORE about THE EDUCATION OF A GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 121276
New York: Allworth Press, (1998). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xiii, 273+(1) pages. First edition. A fine copy. READ MORE about THE EDUCATION OF A GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Price: $20.00 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
New York: Fred W. Hoch Assoc. (1971). 8vo. cloth. 252 pages. Revised edition, sixth printing. A fine copy. Chapters on slug composition and trade typography, Monotype composition, hand composition, color presses, ink, art work, etc. Part of the Standard Management Series. READ MORE about ESTIMATING STANDARDS FOR PRINTERS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 139231
London: Privately printed, 1877. 8vo. 19th c. cloth covered boards, gilt on spine. (iv), 149, (3) pages. First edition. (Bigmore & Wyman I, 332). Bigmore & Wyman claim that "only a very few copies were issued." They also state that this was the first attempt to form a bibliography of printing. Beautifully printed by the Chiswick Press on Whatman paper. Plate of printing press facing title. Front gutter cracked. Minor wear at tips and head..... READ MORE about LITERATURE OF PRINTING, A CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE HISTORY AND ART OF...
Price: $800.00 Order nr. 39284
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
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
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
London: Hookham's Library, n.d. (but circa 1854). 8vo. modern cloth, leather spine label. (ii), 49 pages, *50-*51 leaves, 51-54, 51-650 pages. An unusual catalogue with separatly issued supplements (within the same pagination but on slightly different papers and typography) for the years 1851, 1854, 1857, 1857-1862. Major catagories include history, voyages and travels, plays, poems, biography, romances and novels, divinity, and political tracts. Title page printed in red and blue. Some internal ninteenth century library..... READ MORE about ENGLISH CATALOGUE
Price: $135.00 Order nr. 56335
46 issues.
New York: RC Publications, 1985-. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 46 issues. Have the following of this colorful periodical: Volume 1, No.1-6. (1985-86). Volume 2, No.1-6. (1986-87). Volume 3, No.3. (1988). Volume 4, No.1, 4-6. (1988-1990). Volume 5, No.6. (1990). Volume 6, No.2, 3, 5. (1991). Volume 7, No.1, 2, 3, 5, 6. (1991/92). Business Annual. 1993. Volume 8, No.5. (1993). Volume 9, No.1, 2, 4, 5, 6. (1994). Volume 10, No.1, 4. (1995). Volume 11..... READ MORE about HOW, IDEAS & TECHNIQUE IN GRAPHIC DESIGN
Price: $425.00 Order nr. 105708
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: $35.00 Order nr. 95868
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., (1971). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 138 pages. First edition. Jacket with tears at spine ends, else a good copy. Includes sections on color, typography and technique. READ MORE about PUBLICATION DESIGN, A GUIDE TO PAGE LAYOUT TYPOGRAPHY, FORMAT AND STYLE
Price: $20.00 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 about PUBLICATION DESIGN, A GUIDE TO PAGE LAYOUT TYPOGRAPHY, FORMAT AND STYLE
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 40395
London: Studio Vista, (1969). square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 96 pages. First edition. Minor rubbing to hinges and spine, else a near fine copy. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHICS, A DESIGNER'S HANDBOOK OF PRINTING TECHNIQUES
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 31184
London, United Kingdom: Impress, 2022. tall narrow 4to. half cloth over printed handmade paper covered boards. 74 pages. Privately printed in an edition of 50 numbered copies and signed by the author and printer, Phil Cleaver. Assisted by Rebecca Howson and Stanley Lane. Set in Monotype keyboard and metal-cast by Stanley Lane in Sue Shaw's favourite typeface: Monotype Dante, Series No. 592 in 11/13 point. The text for 'Stanley Lane' is edited and expanded from..... READ MORE about LOVE OF TYPOGRAPHY & LETTERFORMS & POETRY, THE CASE OF THE WINTERBOURNE CHASE
Price: $675.00 Order nr. 137118
N.P.
(Los Angeles: Department of Special Collections, UCLA Library), n.d. (c1982). small 4to. stapled, stiff paper wrappers. 81 pages. N.P. About 500 entries, more a checklist than a bibliography, with index of printings arranged by printer's name. No date; crudity of typography suggests Early Word Processing--we guess 1982. Near fine. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about BOOKS INCLUDED IN THE AHMANSON-MURPHY EARLY ITALIAN PRINTING COLLECTION (THROUGH 1550
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 53951
Stanford: Stanford University Press, (1942). 8vo. cloth. xii, 178 pages. Second edition (retitled) of "26 Lead Soldiers." Minor rubbing to boards, a good copy. READ MORE about NEWSPAPER TYPOGRAPHY, A TEXTBOOK FOR JOURNALISM CLASSES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 50555
n.d. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 40 pages. Being the entire issue of Design Quarterly 134. In color. READ MORE about JAPAN FROM THE INSIDE, DESIGNS FROM THE EXHIBITION TOKOYO: FORM AND SPIRIT ORANGIZED BY WALKER...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 94945
London): Blandford Press, (1991). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xi, 416 pages. Reprint of the first paperback edition which was a reprint of the fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Still the best guide to the subject. Uneven fading to the cover, else a near fine copy. READ MORE about ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF TYPE FACES
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 139362
Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, Inc., (1990). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 128 pages. First edition. Covers the development of type design, basic terminology, copyfitting, photography and the computer, faults to avoid, etc. Well illustrated.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about INTRODUCTION TO TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 29689
London: Grafton & Co., 1934. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 232 pages. First edition. Spine of jacket lightly age-darkened, with minor wear to edges of the jacket. Prospectus loosely inserted. A near fine copy. "A study of typography from the point of view of type design from the invention of the art to the nineteenth century." READ MORE about TYPE DESIGNS, THEIR HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 12686
(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
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 about TYPOGRAPHIE UND KUNST
Price: $15.00 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 about TYPOGRAPHIE UND KUNST
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 61708