(London): Taranman/Carcanet, (1984). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxiv, 230 pages. Foreword by William Anderson. Dust jacket is a bit worn with some creases. READ MORE about THE LIVING CURVE, LETTERS TO W.J. STRACHAN 1929-1979
Price: $8.00 other currencies Order nr. 97506
A Monotype Fanatic's Escapade
Terra Alta: Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry, 1984. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. A Monotype Fanatic's Escapade. Limited to 300 copies. Illustrations by Jim Willis. Typographic adventure at the St. Vincent Archabbey Press. READ MORE about IN QUEST OF TYPOGRAPHIC TREASURES AT THE ARCHABBEY
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 105500
N.P. Privately Printed, 2000. folio. stiff paper wrappers, mailing envelope. (ii), 10, (4) pages. Limited to an edition of 130 (from another copy sold by Oak Knoll). The text for this edition was translated and set by hand at the Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing in Athens. GA. All the press and production work was performed by Richard Hopkins' Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry in Terra Alta, WV. The English text... READ MORE about PRINTING TYPES, THEIR BIRTH IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY DEPICTED IN WOODCUT AND VERSE
Price: $225.00 other currencies Order nr. 104929
N.P. Privately Printed, 2000. folio. stiff paper wrappers, plain paper envelope. (ii), 10, (4) pages. Limited to an edition of 130 (from another copy sold by Oak Knoll). The text for this edition was translated and set by hand at the Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing in Athens GA. All the press and production work was performed by Richard Hopkins' Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry in Terra Alta, WV. The English... READ MORE about PRINTING TYPES, THEIR BIRTH IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY DEPICTED IN WOODCUT AND VERSE
Price: $200.00 other currencies Order nr. 105320
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1986). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 34 pages. Some illustrations. With glossary. READ MORE about BOOK MANUFACTURING
Price: $5.00 other currencies Order nr. 109820
Berlin: Jürgen Holstein Antiquariat, 1987. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Text in German and English, with preface translated into Japanese. Catalogue of architecture, photography, graphics, illustrated books, artists' autographs, posters, typography and other items, mainly related to the Bauhaus. 358 items. Supplement includes French Studio Ceramics, 1870-1900. Select bibliography and index. READ MORE about KATALOG 105: BAUHAUS, ETC. ARCHITEKTUR, FOTOGRAFIE, GRAFIK, ILLUSTRIERTE BÜCHER,...
Price: $50.00 other currencies Order nr. 109058
New York: A. Raymond Hopper, 1938. tall 4to. cloth. 70, (6) pages. "Fundamental arrangements of the `sets' of more than 600 type- faces, embracing nearly 5,000 different fonts..." Minor cover rubbing. Foxed along gutters. READ MORE about HOPPER'S TYPE TABLES
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 30519
Names of type Designers Set in One of Their Astute Creations
Baltimore: The House of Type, 1984. 16mo. stapled stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Names of type Designers Set in One of Their Astute Creations. Limited to 120 copies. List of type designers using their various type faces. READ MORE about THE MAN BEHIND THE FACE
Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 105501
Baltimore, MD: The House of Type, 1978. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 28, (2) pages. A selection of quotations about typefaces and typography set in a number of typefaces. Includes a listing of different typefaces used in the text. READ MORE about TYPOGRAFIKS 2
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 118881
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 other currencies Order nr. 95868
Munich: Nationale Verlagsanstalt, 1898. 4to. quarter leather with paste paper-covered boards and leather spine label, original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. 30; 98; 142 pages. Three volumes bound together. The second and third volumes are entitled Gutenbergs ersten Drucke and Zum Streit um das Missale speciale Constantiense, respectively. Three monographs of Hupp's analysis of the Missale Speciale, which he discovered in 1880. Each subsequent volume corrects the conjectures set forth in earlier issues and offers new... READ MORE about EIN MISSALE SPECIALE VORLÄUFER DES PSALTERIUMS VON 1457
Price: $300.00 other currencies Order nr. 77014
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 other currencies Order nr. 40395
London: Cory, Adams & Mackay, (1963). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 127 pages. First edition. Well printed. READ MORE about THE WESTERN HERITAGE OF TYPE DESIGN, A TREASURY OF CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TYPEFACES DEMONSTRATING...
Price: $30.00 other currencies Order nr. 19754
London and Boston: Pentagram and Faber and Faber, (1986). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 160 pages. First U.S. edition. A look at some recent creative solutions to design problems. Dozens of images reproduced in color and black and white. Useful for those professionally and personally involved in design, typography, and communications. READ MORE about IDEAS ON DESIGN
Price: $55.00 other currencies Order nr. 77919
Oldham, England: Incline Press, 2007. 4to. cloth, marbled paper covered boards, slipcase. 95 pages, 76 broadsides. One of 150 copies of which this is one of XXX numbered copies bound with an extra suite of 9 broadsides and with the slipcase bound with marbled paper by Ann Muir. Sixty-seven broadsheets explore some of the endless design possibilities of single-sheet printing. Presenting a wide range of typefaces, borders and illustrations, these miniature posters range from the... READ MORE about HUNG OUT TO DRY
Price: $425.00 other currencies Order nr. 105556
England: Incline Press, 1999. 16mo. paper wrappers. 10, (2) pages. An extract from a talk given to the Typophiles, New York in 1999. A discussion on buying second hand type. Illustrated with letters of the alphabet. READ MORE about I AM NOT A TYPE COLLECTOR
Price: $35.00 other currencies Order nr. 58721
Brooklyn: Intertype Corporation, (1929). tall 12mo. paper wrappers. 32 pages. Revised edition. Covers soiled. READ MORE about HOW TO SELECT TYPE FACES ESPECIALLY INTERTYPE FACES
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 33093
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1933. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers; top edge cut, other edges uncut. pp. 212-228. An article in Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, New Series, Vol. XIV, No. 2. With facsimiles of items cited by the author. Other articles focusing on printing and publishing in Tudor and Stuart England. Edges slightly worn and wrappers lightly tanned. Unopened. READ MORE about " ELIZABETHAN ROMAN AND ITALIC TYPES."
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 110065
A Facsimile of the Manuscript Overslag-Boek by Joannes Josephus Balthazar Vanderstraelen
New York: The Grolier Club, 2014. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover. 210 pages. A Facsimile of the Manuscript Overslag-Boek by Joannes Josephus Balthazar Vanderstraelen. Although "imposition manuals" -- instructions on the proper layout of typeset pages for the press -- have always been useful tools of the printing trade, surviving examples are rare. The present volume has been reproduced from a unique manuscript in the collection of the Grolier Club Library. Entitled Overslag-Boek, zeer nuttig... READ MORE about THE EARLIEST DUTCH IMPOSITION MANUAL
Price: $75.00 other currencies Order nr. 121734
London: Blandford Press, (1970). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 420 pages. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Jacket rubbed and worn along edges, with minor tears. Light shelfwear. READ MORE about ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF TYPE FACES
Price: $55.00 other currencies Order nr. 30477
Chicago: American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1929. 4to. blind-stamped boards, heavy blue paper wrapper. 15 pages. Limited edition, designed by Douglas McMurtrie. Jacket spotted. READ MORE about LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE LATE NICOLAS JENSON
Price: $35.00 other currencies Order nr. 4359
London, England: Faber and Faber, 1952. 4to. cloth. xii, 400 pages. Reprint of first 1887 edition. Table of contents, prefaces to the first and new editions, bibliography, index. Historical and bibliographical notes by Talbot Baines Reed. Foldout black and white frontispiece. Endpapers tanned. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF THE OLD ENGLISH LETTER FOUNDRIES
Price: $30.00 other currencies Order nr. 130629
London: Andre Deutsch, (1966). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 184 pages. Third edition. "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: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 30591
Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1970. thick 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xi, 489 pages. First edition. Contains 40 articles on printing, type specimens and book illustration. Numerous facsimiles and two folding maps. READ MORE about A.F. JOHNSON, SELECTED ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND PRINTING
Price: $65.00 other currencies Order nr. 19884
New York: The Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection, (1979). 8vo. paper wrappers. 16 pages. Sample Issue, June 1979. READ MORE about FESTINA LENTE, THE JOURNAL OF THE MELBERT B. CARY, JR. GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 34493
