EXHIBITION OF BRITISH BOOK DESIGN 1951.
N.P. National Book League, 1951. 8vo. paper wrappers. 52 pages. Describes 100 books. READ MORE about EXHIBITION OF BRITISH BOOK DESIGN 1951
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 51788
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EXHIBITION OF BRITISH BOOK DESIGN 1952.
N.P. National Book League, 1952. 8vo. paper wrappers. 40 pages. Describes 100 books. Wrapper slightly yellowed. READ MORE about EXHIBITION OF BRITISH BOOK DESIGN 1952
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 91941
50 JAHRE INTERNATIONALE BUCHKUNST-AUSSTELLUNGEN IN LEIPZIG.
Leipzig: Deutsche Bücherei, 1976. narrow 4to. paper wrappers. 67+(1) pages. On fifty years of international book design exhibitions in Leipzig. Illustrated. Wrappers yellowed. READ MORE about 50 JAHRE INTERNATIONALE BUCHKUNST-AUSSTELLUNGEN IN LEIPZIG
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 51242
ANNUAL SELECTION OF OUTSTANDING TEXTBOOKS PRESENTED BY THE TEXTBOOK CLINIC OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GRAPHIC ARTS.
N.P. n.p., n.d. 8vo. paper wrappers. various paginations. The following years are availabe: 6th Annual 1944, 14th Annual, 1952; 16th Annual, 1954; 20th Annual, 1958; 21st Annual, 1960; 22nd Annual, 1961 23rd Annual, 1963. Illustrated. Price is per issue. READ MORE about ANNUAL SELECTION OF OUTSTANDING TEXTBOOKS PRESENTED BY THE TEXTBOOK CLINIC OF THE AMERICAN...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 729
CONTEMPORARY GERMAN BOOK DESIGN.
Frankfurt am Main: Borsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, (1955). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 36 pages. Text in English. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about CONTEMPORARY GERMAN BOOK DESIGN
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 17825
CONTRIBUTORS BEING THE PAPER OF A TALK DELIVERED TO THE WYNKYN DE WORDE SOCIETY AT STATIONERS' HALL ON 16TH MAY 1974. (By RSA).
Westerham: Westerham Press, 1974. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 31 pages and many illustrations including tipped-in facsimile specimen sheets. Talk on the book designers working in 20th century England. Includes information on Stanley Morison. READ MORE about CONTRIBUTORS BEING THE PAPER OF A TALK DELIVERED TO THE WYNKYN DE WORDE SOCIETY AT STATIONERS'...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 2429
CONTRIBUTORS BEING THE PAPER OF A TALK DELIVERED TO THE WYNKYN DE WORDE SOCIETY AT STATIONERS' HALL ON 16TH MAY 1974. (By RSA).
Westerham: Westerham Press, 1974. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 31 pages and many illustrations including tipped-in facsimile specimen sheets. Talk on the book designers working in 20th century England. Includes information on Stanley Morison. Jacket worn along spine. READ MORE about CONTRIBUTORS BEING THE PAPER OF A TALK DELIVERED TO THE WYNKYN DE WORDE SOCIETY AT STATIONERS'...
Price: $8.50 Order nr. 63373
FIFTY BOOKS OF THE YEAR.
(New York, NY): A.I.G.A., various dates. 8vo. paper wrappers. various pagination. A run of the books and pamphlets issued by the American Institute of Graphic Arts showing the 50 best American books of each year. With all of the best of American designers illustrated including Dwiggins, Cleland, Rogers, Hammer, Angelo, etc. The exhibition number and publication date listed is for the previous year's selections of books. (For example Exhibit number 1-1923 covers books published in..... READ MORE about FIFTY BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 728
FIFTY BOOKS OF THE YEAR.
New York, NY: American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1938. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. An exhibition of American bookmaking with descriptive information and illustration of each item. Lists of designers, printers, and binders. READ MORE about FIFTY BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 133628
HOMAGE TO THE BOOK.
N.P. Westvaco, (1968). 4to. 16 folders loosely inserted in a cloth box. Sixteen designers each contributed a section to this book to express their thoughts on book design. Included are Joseph Blumenthal, Giovanni Mardersteig, Hermann Zapf, Jan Tschichold, Georg Trump, Leonard Baskin, Bert Clarke and many others. Beautifully illustrated. Fine in a near fine box. READ MORE about HOMAGE TO THE BOOK
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 24210
THE TRIAL OF 6 DESIGNERS, DESIGNS FOR KAFKA'S THE TRIAL BY GEORGE SALTER P.J. CONKWRIGHT, MERLE ARMITAGE, CARL ZAHN, JOSEPH BLUMENTHAL, AND MARSHALL LEE.
Lock Haven: Hammermill Paper Co., 1968. 12mo. cloth-backed boards. 216 pages. Limited to 2500 numbered copies. Illustrated. Edited by Lee and with an essay by Kenneth Rexroth. READ MORE about THE TRIAL OF 6 DESIGNERS, DESIGNS FOR KAFKA'S THE TRIAL BY GEORGE SALTER P.J. CONKWRIGHT, MERLE...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 13829
TWENTY YEARS OF WESTERN BOOKS, AN EXHIBITION ARRANGED BY THE ROUNCE & COFFIN CLUB FOR THE CALIFORNIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
Sacramento: Crocker Art Gallery, 1959. 12mo. paper wrappers. 12 pages. Printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon. READ MORE about TWENTY YEARS OF WESTERN BOOKS, AN EXHIBITION ARRANGED BY THE ROUNCE & COFFIN CLUB FOR THE...
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 94948
WESTERN BOOKS.
N.P. Rounce & Coffin Club, various dates. small 8vo. paper wrappers. Includes the exhibition No.6 1947 (piece torn away at corner of cover), No.7 1948 (5), No. 9 1950(4), No.10 1951 (4), No.11 1952, No. 12 1953(3), No.20 1961(3), No.21 1962(3), No.22 1963, 1965, 1966 (3), 1967, 1968(2), 1969 (2), 1997, Limited editions. Some covers spotted. Price is per issue. READ MORE about WESTERN BOOKS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 733
A MASTER'S BIBLIOPHILE BINDINGS, TINI MIURA, 1980-1990.
Tokyo: Kyoiku Shoseki Ltd., (1991). folio. cloth, dust jacket. 199 pages. First edition in English. About 300 color plates depicting 177 mostly full leather bindings designed and made by Mrs. Miura, an additional 24 designed by her, various posters for exhibitions, and several groups of photographs showing her and her assistants performing various binding operations in her Tokyo workshop. Miura's bindings are generally in a modern "French" or artistic style, often reminiscent of Art Nouveau..... READ MORE about A MASTER'S BIBLIOPHILE BINDINGS, TINI MIURA, 1980-1990
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 53060
MODERN BOOKBINDINGS:THEIR DESIGN AND DECORATION.
New York, NY: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1906. 8vo. original cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped. x, 131+(1) pages. Table of contents, list of illustrations. 68 black and white plates, including frontispiece. A study of English, French, and edition bindings. Erratum tipped in. Extremities of spine worn. Scattered light foxing. READ MORE about MODERN BOOKBINDINGS:THEIR DESIGN AND DECORATION
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 130831
WOLFGANG STOCK BUCHEINBANDE.
Salzburg: Werkstätte für Buchkunst, 1982. small oblong 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (69) pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies, initialed by Mr. Stock. Catalogue for an exhibition listing twenty-one art bindings and two "book walls" (holders for sets of small paperbacks). Eleven black-and-white illustrations and twelve color illustrations. Stock's bindings represent a generally conservative approach to the book as art, in which the book has a more-or-less conventional structure and retains its function as a book..... READ MORE about WOLFGANG STOCK BUCHEINBANDE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 53855
THE LANGUAGE OF GRAPHICS.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1979). thick 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 320 pages. First edition. With over 1,000 illustrations including more than 530 plates in full color. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about THE LANGUAGE OF GRAPHICS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 40507
DODD MEAD & CO'S NEW AND STANDARD BOOKS, CHRISTMAS 1899-1900.
(Cambridge, MA: Will Bradley, at the University Press, for Dodd, Mead & Company), 1899. 12mo. original illustrated stiff paper wrappers. 48 pages. Bambace page 185. A Christmas catalogue including holiday books, music and art, travel and biography, novels and tales, general literature and belles lettres, religious books, and books for younger readers. Includes black and white specimen illustrations. Erratum tag tipped in. Well preserved copy. READ MORE about DODD MEAD & CO'S NEW AND STANDARD BOOKS, CHRISTMAS 1899-1900
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 118823
WILL H. BRADLEY: HIS WORK, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE.
New Castle, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts: Oak Knoll Press and Thomas G. Boss Fine Books, 1995. 8vo. cloth. xxiii, 216 pages. First edition. Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is widely regarded as one of the masters of design during the Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts periods. His typographic and illustrative work pushed the boundaries of these fields into new directions. In addition, his re-introduction and use of Caslon type brought it back into popularity. The..... READ MORE about WILL H. BRADLEY: HIS WORK, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 41678
WILL H. BRADLEY: HIS WORK, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE.
New Castle, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts: Oak Knoll Press and Thomas G. Boss Fine Books, 1995. 8vo. cloth. xxiii, 216 pages. First edition. Presentation from the author on the verso of the half-title. Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is widely regarded as one of the masters of design during the Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts periods. His typographic and illustrative work pushed the boundaries of these fields into new directions. In addition, his re-introduction and..... READ MORE about WILL H. BRADLEY: HIS WORK, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 115708
DESIGN IN STRATHMORE ADVERTISING ... MAKING PAPER PART OF THE PICTURE.
N.P. Strathmore Paper Co., n.d. small 4to. self paper wrappers. 16 pages. Discussion of the design of advertising for the Strathmore Paper Company. Reproduces, in color, many of the ads done for the company by Will Bradley and discusses his role in designing work for them. READ MORE about DESIGN IN STRATHMORE ADVERTISING ... MAKING PAPER PART OF THE PICTURE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 15185
OFF THE SHELF AND ON-LINE: COMPUTERS MOVE THE BOOK ARTS INTO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY DESIGN.
Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1992. large 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 61+(1) pages. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name, sponsored by the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. A series of essays and articles on the uses of modern technology in book design. Well-illustrated. READ MORE about OFF THE SHELF AND ON-LINE: COMPUTERS MOVE THE BOOK ARTS INTO TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY DESIGN
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 46649
HONORING WORDS: THE ART OF BOOK DESIGN.
(Lunenburg, VT: The Stinehour Press, 1995). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Limited edition of 500. Exhibition, September-October 1995 celebrating the centennial of the Greenwich Library, Greenwich, Connecticut. Beatrice Brittain (1926-88) was a founder of the Greenwich Arts Council whose collection focused on American books 1890 to the present. Introduction by Pam Koob, curator. Listing of exhibited items with black and white illustrations. Listing of lenders to the exhibition. READ MORE about HONORING WORDS: THE ART OF BOOK DESIGN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 108652
PRINTING POETRY.
San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1980. small 4to. cloth spine with decorated paper-covered boards. xvi, 150 pages. First edition. A handbook discussing tools, type design, printing, binding, etc. used to produce a finely printed book of poetry. Introduction by William Everson. A tight, bright, and unmarred copy. READ MORE about PRINTING POETRY
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 96890
MAX CAFLISCH, TYPOGRAPHIA PRACTICA.
Hamburg: Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 1988. tall 4to. grey cloth stamped in blind and in gilt, cardboard slipcase. 355, (3) pages. First edition, limited to 1400 copies. Fine in lightly toned slipcase. An excellently produced new book devoted to the work of the Swiss designer and type historian, Max Caflisch. Text in German. Contributions by Berlincourt, Bertheau, Bosshard, Blum, Gschwend, Darrell Hyder (in English), Jager, Ramseger, Romano, Schmid, Stresow, Unger, Willberg and Hermann Zapf. Filled with illustrations of..... READ MORE about MAX CAFLISCH, TYPOGRAPHIA PRACTICA
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 25210