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
Boston: The Stetson Press, (1914). small 8vo. boards. 31+(1) pages. With many two color reproductions. READ MORE about HOW TO MAKE TYPE TALK, THE RELATION OF TYPOGRAPHY TO VOICE MODULATION. BASIC PRINCIPLES AS...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 22819
London: Barrie & Jenkins, (1978). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 144 pages. First edition. Divided into two sections: the first deals with the influences in art and design that have shaped modern typography, the second gives practical instructions. Uncommon title. Some foxing of top edge. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHY: DESIGN AND PRACTICE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 121378
New Rochelle: The Myriade Press, (1978). 4to. later quarter black cloth with simulated red leather and with original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. 142 pages. Second edition. In later binding. READ MORE about TYPE AND TYPEFACES
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 118144
New Rochelle: The Myriade Press, (1978). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 142 pages. This is the second edition of a good introductory, practical, and comprehensive book for beginners who want to learn about the history of type, typefounding and typefaces. Twenty-five chapters cover subjects such as how and why typefaces are different, fifteen great inventions behind typefaces, classifying type, choosing type, and the practical problems of identifying type plus what to do when you have become..... READ MORE about TYPE AND TYPEFACES
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 47017
Philadelphia: MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan, 1885. 8vo. original cloth. xiv, 13-384, (6) pages. Fifteenth edition. (Bigmore & Wyman II,3; ATF Cat. 1512). A reprint of the fourteenth edition with a brief note on this fifteenth edition and a few other changes. Rubbed at spine ends. Front inside hinge cracked. READ MORE about AMERICAN PRINTER: A MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY CONTAINING PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR MANAGING EVERY...
Price: $135.00 Order nr. 23167
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957. tall 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 8 pages followed by 46 full page plates. First edition. Plates show pages by Schoffer, Froben, Tory, Caslon, Bodoni, Fournier, Baskerville, Kelmscott and others. Covers laminated. READ MORE about PRINTED BOOKS, A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO FINE TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 71711
Fairlawn, NJ: Essential Books, 1959. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 116 pages. First U.S. edition. Illustrated. An important study. Jacket has small pieces missing along edge and is foxed. Pastedowns and endpapers also show foxing. READ MORE about MODERN BOOK DESIGN FROM WILLIAM MORRIS TO THE PRESENT DAY
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 60462
(New York): Thames and Hudson, (1988). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 216 pages. Reprint of the first U.S. paperback edition. Contains an historical introduction and chapters on equipment, methods of composition, casting-off, and jobbing, newspaper and magazine production. Well illustrated. READ MORE about THE THAMES AND HUDSON MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 76328
New York: Thames and Hudson, (1980). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 216 pages. First U.S. edition. Short history followed by practical manual. Illustrated. With 188 illustrations. READ MORE about THE THAMES AND HUDSON MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $42.50 Order nr. 98612
(New York): Thames and Hudson, (1992). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 216 pages. Reprint of the first U.S. paperback edition, with corrections for this printing. Contains an historical introduction and chapters on equipment, methods of composition, casting-off, and jobbing, newspaper and magazine production. Well illustrated. READ MORE about THE THAMES AND HUDSON MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 108565
London: Thames and Hudson, (1980). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 216 pages. First edition. Short history followed by practical manual. Illustrated. With 188 illustrations. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. READ MORE about THE THAMES AND HUDSON MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 122185
Social and political Graphics since the Sixties
(London: Phaidon Press, 1993). large 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 240 pages. Social and political Graphics since the Sixties. Filled with color and black-and-white images. Visually stunning. READ MORE about GRAPHIC AGITATION
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 96340
Secaucus, NJ: Chartwell Books, (1987). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages. Examines the influences on the Graphic Arts, from William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement to the present day. Well illustrated, most in color. READ MORE about GRAPHIC DESIGN SOURCE BOOK With an introduction by F.H.K. Henrion
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 24159
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, (1998). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (xvi), 510, (6) pages. Third edition. A complete and comprehensive study of the development of graphic design from prehistoric times to the twentieth century. Well-illustrated. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 97880
Frankfurt: Deutscher Typokreis, 1955. 8vo. paper-covered boards. 45, (3) pages. On problems in contemporary typography. Spine faded. Corners bumped. READ MORE about FORMPROBLEME DER GEGENWÄRTIGEN TYPOGRAPHIE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 50721
1958. small 4to. stiff paper portfolio containing the text. pp.35-38. Reprinted from The Penrose Annual, Volume 52, 1958. Discussion of this annual meeting of people interested in typography. READ MORE about L' ECOLE DE LURE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 32684
London: From the Proceedings of the British Academy, 1937. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 30 pages of text followed by 28 plates. First edition (Appleton no.148). Being the Annual Lecture on Aspects of Art, Henriette Hertz Trust of the British Academy. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about THE ART OF PRINTING
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 4553
New York: Farrar, Straus and Co., 1949. 8vo. cloth. 342 pages. Second revised octavo edition (Appleton no.35c). Jacket has a piece missing from front cover. READ MORE about FOUR CENTURIES OF FINE PRINTING TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTH-TWO EXAMPLES OF THE WORK OF PRESSES...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 4559
N.P. n.p., (1937). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 32, (4) pages. An artilce in PM IV:1 September 1937; reprinted from The Fleuron. With over sixty color and black and white illustrations. Wrappers chipped at edges and tanned. READ MORE about " TYPE DESIGNS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT."
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 121341
London: Theodore Brun, (1949). 8vo. original full tan leather, top edge gilt. 106 pages. First printing of The Typographic Arts and The Art of Printing in one volume. Limited to 250 numbered copies and in full leather binding as issued. Contains 32 illustrations. Leather scuffed along top of front and back hinges. READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC ARTS, TWO LECTURES
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 13308
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950. tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 106 pages. First U.S. edition. Reprints The Typographic Artsand The Art of Printing. (Appleton no.148c). With information on William Morris throughout. Jacket has pieces missing along edges. READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC ARTS, TWO LECTURES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 128441
Vol. V.
Cambridge: The University Press, 1926. 4to. cloth. xvi, 205, (21) pages. Vol. V. Limited to 1370 copies. Article on Karl Klingspor by Julius Rodenberg including a list of books printed at the Private Press of the Gebr. Klingspor, articles on Laboureur, Bulmer, and "Towards an Ideal Italick" by Stanley Morison. Small bump along bottom of front cover and small tears at spine ends. READ MORE about FLEURON, A JOURNAL OF TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 73564
London: Times Publishing Company, 1939. large 8vo. paper, one page fold in half. An offprint from The Times Literary Supplement, Saturday April 15, 1939 which discusses the collection of Paul Hirsch. He is best known as a collector of music, with a fine collection of bindings, Goethes, Heines and Schillers in the original state, along with specimens of typography of all periods. His wife also has an amazing collection of book-binders' papers all arranged chronologically..... READ MORE about WORKING LIBRARY OF MUSIC: MR PAUL HIRSCH
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 59817
