AN ANNOUNCEMENT.
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
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
New York: The L.F. White Company, 1951. 12mo. paper wrappers. 20 pages. Typophiles Mongraph XXXI. A talk given by White to the Type Directors Club. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE BOOK
Price: $7.50 Order nr. 10840
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corp. (1967). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 160 pages. First edition. Profusely illustrated. Chapters on typography, printing, paper, binding, dust jackets, etc. Presentation on half-title "For David Belch, on the occasion of a delightful Books & Authors program, Adrian Wilson, November 20, 1968." Small spot along edge of back cover of jacket. READ MORE about THE DESIGN OF BOOKS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 43422
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1993). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 160 pages. Reprint edition but containing a new foreword by Sumner Stone. Profusely illustrated. Chapters on typography, printing, paper, binding, dust jackets, etc. Bottom of spine slightly bumped.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about THE DESIGN OF BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 57442
Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, (1979). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 160 pages. Reprint edition. Profusely illustrated. Chapters on typography, printing, paper, binding, dust jackets, etc. Covers lightly toned, else a fine copy. READ MORE about THE DESIGN OF BOOKS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 78136
London and Offenbach: Wynkyn de Worde Society and Bund Deutscher Buchkünstler, (1989). 4to. cloth. 251, (2) pages. A collection of about forty essays reflecting upon the personality and career of typographer, Hermann Zapf, including one by Zapf himself. Text is in German and English. Illustrated, some in color. Small water spot on front cover, else near fine. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about ABC-XYZAPF, FÜNFZIG JAHRE ALPHABET DESIGN
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 34513
With Prefaces written by Paul Standard, New York, G. K. Schauer, Frankfurt, and Charles Peignot, Paris, together with commentary notes and specifications.
New York, NY: Museum Books, 1964. 4to. quarter parchment over paper covered boards, parchment tips, paper dust jacket. Not paginated. With Prefaces written by Paul Standard, New York, G. K. Schauer, Frankfurt, and Charles Peignot, Paris, together with commentary notes and specifications. Limited to 500 numbered copies produced by this American publisher, and signed by Zapf on the colophon page. Jacket chipped with tears along top edge, else a very good copy. Set in 16..... READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIC VARIATIONS DESIGNED BY HERMANN ZAPF ON THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY BOOK DESIGN AND...
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 20894
New Rochelle: The Myriade Press, (1978). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), v, 77 plates, (10) pages. Reprint of the scarce first edition including reproduction of the color work. Wear along edges. Near fine. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIC VARIATIONS DESIGNED BY HERMANN ZAPF ON THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY BOOK DESIGN AND...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 28146
New York: Museum Books, 1964. 4to. parchment-backed boards with vellum tips, dust jacket. not paginated. Limited to 500 numbered copies for the American market signed by Zapf. Set in 16 languages with the types of D. Stempel "taken from the foundry's archives" and printed by Heinrich Egenolf. A magnificent display of typography and type specimens printed in black with some part printed in an alternative color. Jacket has a faint stain along top of front..... READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIC VARIATIONS DESIGNED BY HERMANN ZAPF ON THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY BOOK DESIGN AND...
Price: $187.50 Order nr. 121252
Frankfurt am Main: Georg Kurt Schauer, 1963. 4to. parchment-backed boards with vellum tips. Not paginated. Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by Zapf. Set in 16 languages with the types of D. Stempel "taken from the foundry's archives" and printed by Heinrich Egenolf. A magnificent display of typography and type specimens printed in black with some part printed in an alternative color. Very small spot on front board. Lacking dust jacket and slipcase. A Century..... READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHISCHE VARIATIONEN, 78 BUCHTITEL UND TEXTSEITEN ALS GESTALTUNGSMOGLICHKEITEN DER...
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 131555
Mladá Boleslav: (Hejda & Zbroj), 1939. 4to. clamshell box, label, text loosely inserted. 140, (2) pages. (Arno Sáñka IV, 5475). Text in Czech. Preface by Antonina Dolenský. Designed by Josefa Mrkvicky. History of Czech typography, focusing on the 15th to the 17th centuries. Frontispiece depicting text of Chronicles of Troy, one of the earliest known printed works in Czech. Black and white illustrations throughout. Includes index of printers and endnotes. Publisher's announcement laid in. Clamshell..... READ MORE about Z DEJIN CÉSKEHO KNIHTISK ARSTVÍ
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 107573