Palo Alto, CA: Coyne & Blanchard, 1989. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 139, (5) pages. Vol. 30, No. 8 (January/February 1989). Features an article about Matthew Carter, type designer at Bitstream, Inc. by Dick Coyne.(pp.86-93) Color illustrations throughout. READ MORE about COMMUNICATION ARTS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 121828
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., (1993). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. ix, 278 pages. Second edition. Covers the evolution of writing, the anatomy of typography, Syntax and Communication, Legibility, Typographic Design, case studies and type specimens. Well illustrated. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN: FORM AND COMMUNICATION
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 138558
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, (1989). 4to. paper over boards, dust jacket. 159 pages. First edition. The author provides a critical analysis of 24 modern typographic designers. Covers many different styles including classicism, modernism, expressionism and post-modernism. Also contains a descriptive list of individuals, movements, developments, etc. in typographic design. Well-illustrated. READ MORE about AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHY TODAY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 24453
London: The Galahad Press, (1968). small 4to. cloth-backed stiffened boards. 46 pages. First edition. Portrait and three other plates. Ten pages of examples of Carter's work. Fine production. READ MORE about WILL CARTER, PRINTER, AN ILLUSTRATED STUDY
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 4865
New York: Center for Book Arts, 1984. 4to. stiff paper wrappers with illustration on front cover. 56 pages. An exhibition held at the New York Public Library from September 7 to November 29, 1994 celebrated the first ten years of the Center's existence. Including 132 works by 112 artists, it was not intended as a retrospective, but rather as an overview of traditional book forms, paper arts, bookbinding and art works based on, or alluding..... READ MORE about THE FIRST DECADE, CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS, AN EXHIBITION AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY SEPTEMBER 7...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 103186
New York: Center for Book Arts, 1984. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 56 pages. An exhibition held at the New York Public Library from September 7 to November 29, 1994 celebrated the first ten years of the Center's existence. Including 132 works by 112 artists, it was not intended as a retrospective, but rather as an overview of traditional book forms, paper arts, bookbinding and art works based on, or alluding to, book forms. Introduction by..... READ MORE about THE FIRST DECADE, CENTER FOR THE BOOK ARTS, AN EXHIBITION AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 36530
New York: Center for Book Arts, 1994. square 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages. This is a catalogue for an exhibition held in New York from January 14 to March 25, 1994, which contained the work of printers, bookbinders and papermakers who are all instructors of the book arts, as well as artists in their own right. Some of the participating artists were Marcia Ciro, Nadja Press, Peter and Donna Thomas, and Mary Phelan. Contemporary..... READ MORE about MASTERS OF THE CRAFT: WORKS BY INSTRUCTORS OF BOOK ARTS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 103179
Translated by Thomas Shelton. Illustrations by Daniel Vierge. With an introductin by Royal Cortissoz. Five Volumes.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906-1907. small 4to. half ivory leather over cream cloth-covered boards decorated in gilt, top edges gilt. lxviii, 385, xv, 416, xxiii, 385, xvi, 421 pages, with supplementary portfolio 'Plates before Letter'. Translated by Thomas Shelton. Illustrations by Daniel Vierge. With an introductin by Royal Cortissoz. Five Volumes. Limited to 1,150 copies, of which this is one of 140 numbered copies printed on Japan Paper, with two additional full-page illustrations (one..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF THE VALOROUS AND WITTY KNIGHT-ERRANT DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHA. FIVE VOLUMES
Price: $1,450.00 Order nr. 139097
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 22, (2) pages. Information on the process of rubber plate printing, which may be useful to students of printing. Illustrated with diagrams. Covers rubbed. READ MORE about RUBBER PLATES FOR THE PRINTER
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 57248
Brooklyn: George McKibbin & Son, (1949). 8vo. cloth-backed decorated paepr covered boards. 13 pages. First edition, limited to 2000 copies. Details of typographic design. McKibbin issued a number of books on design. READ MORE about THE LITTLE DETAILS
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 1369
(New York, NY): The Grolier Club, 1973. 8vo. self paper wrappers. 13+(1) pages. Offprint from The Gazette of the Grolier Club, New Series, Number 19, December 1973. Delivered at the opening of the Fritz Kredel retrospective exhibition on April 18, 1973. With an editorial postscript and one black and white plate. READ MORE about FRITZ KREDEL
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 129965
Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1991. 4to. decorated paper over boards, leather spine label. (x), (80), (vi) pages. First edition, limited to 210 numbered copies of which only 100 are for sale. This copy is neither signed, nor numbered, on the colophon page. Printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress by Daniel Keleher using Cheloniidae rag paper. Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the printing career of Harold Patrick McGrath, Master Printer for the Gehenna Press, Pennyroyal..... READ MORE about H.P.M., HAROLD PATRICK McGRATH
Price: $600.00 Order nr. 33328
Los Angeles: n.p., 1981. tall 12mo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards. 105, (3) pages. First edition, limited to 350 copies. Printed by Richard J. Hoffman for Jones in Dwiggins' Falcon and using ornaments cast by Paul Duensing. 94 items described in detail. READ MORE about A LOS ANGELES TYPESTICKER: WILLIAM M. CHENEY A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HIS PRINTED WORK
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 15823
Commemorating the two hundred and fifth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin. The Blackstone.
Chicago: Chicago Typothetae, 1911. 8vo. Tied with thongs into a stamped leather cover into which a half-tone copper plate of Benjamin Franklin has been placed. (10) leaves. Commemorating the two hundred and fifth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin. The Blackstone. Illustrated. Near fine. Very scarce. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about THE CHICAGO TYPOTHETAE ANNUAL BANQUET
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 137202
N.P. (IAPHC, 1969). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 157 pages. With many portraits of members. Spine lightly sunned, else near fine. READ MORE about FIFTY GOLDEN YEARS OF CRAFTSMANSHIP, A HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PRINTING HOUSE...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 97121
With wood engravings by John DePol.
N.P. A. R. Tommasini, (1971). 16mo. printed paper over boards, acetate dust jacket. (vi), 34, (2) pages. With wood engravings by John DePol. First edition. Spine lightly faded, else near fine. Limited to 900 numbered copies. Set in 8pt. Times and printed by letterpress on Fairfield Opaque, Vellum White. A survey of the changes in the graphic arts industry during the twentieth century. A nice production. The 24th Christmas Keepsake issued by Tommasini. READ MORE about PRINTING: THEN & NOW
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Kingsport: (Kingsport Press), 1943. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord tie. (ii), 32, (2) pages. First and limited edition, only printing. Pamphlet. This extremely scarce wartime speech pamphlet publication of Churchills 11 November 1942 speech to the House of Commons was a limited edition of only 400 copies. According to Churchills bibliographer, Ronald Cohen, as early as 1953 noted Churchill collectors were already looking for copies and unable to find them. This is a lovely..... READ MORE about SPEECH BEFORE THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND ON 11TH NOVEMBER 1942
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 18144
Villa Park, IL: Graphic Chemical & Ink Co., 1970. oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 37 pages. Dated January 1970. With ink specimens and even tipped-in paper specimens. READ MORE about PRINTMAKER'S MATERIALS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 109444
Villa Park, IL: Graphic Chemical & Ink Co., 1973. oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 37 pages. Dated January 1973. With ink specimens and even tipped-in paper specimens. Loosely inserted is an errata sheet. READ MORE about PRINTMAKER'S MATERIALS
Price: $42.50 Order nr. 109445
New York: The New York Public Library, 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 44, (42) pages. Text followed by plates showing the typographical design work by Clarke. Printed by the Press of A. Colish. A fine copy. READ MORE about BERT CLARKE - TYPOGRAPHER, A CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF SELECTED WORKS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 4967
Bloomingdale: McKnight & McKnight, 1941. 4to. paper wrappers. 167 pages. First edition. Presents history of printing and instructions in the mechanical details of type composition and simple presswork. Light rubbing to covers, else fine. READ MORE about GENERAL PRINTING
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 21966
Bloomingdale: McKnight & McKnight, 1963. small 4to. cloth. xviii, 203 pages. Third edition. Presents history of printing and instructions in the mechanical details of type composition and simple presswork. READ MORE about GENERAL PRINTING
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 108325
Saratoga CA: Liber Apertus Press, (2006). small 4to. paper wrappers. 167 pages. Re-issue of the third edition. Presents history of printing and instructions in the mechanical details of type composition and simple presswork. Fine condition. READ MORE about GENERAL PRINTING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 93389
Pasadena, CA: The Clinker Press, (2000). 4to. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, gilt-stamped spine and front cover, bottom edge uncut. iv, 7, (3) pages. Limited to 50 numbered copies. Introduction by Andre Chaves. Reprint of an article in The International Studio LIX:233 (July 1916). Bound by David Weinstein tipped-in specimen precedes text. READ MORE about PRINTING WITH WOOD BLOCKS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 129846
Heaton, Mersey, Manchester: The Cloister Press, 1936. smalll 4to. paper-covered boards. not paginated. A short history of The Cloister Press, which at the time of publication was doing commercial printing and select advertisements as well as fine printing. This book was designed to show an example of good printing, and illustrated with many photographs of their building and equipment to showcase their up-to-date facilities. well-preserved copy. READ MORE about PRINT BY THE CLOISTER PRESS
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 46430
