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
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
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
Design, Layout and Sales Ideas for Designers, Sellers and Buyers of Printing
New York, NY: Moore Publishing Co., Inc., 1954. 8vo. paper wrappers. 64 pages. Design, Layout and Sales Ideas for Designers, Sellers and Buyers of Printing. Reprint from the American Printers: January 1952 - August 1954. Minor soiling to covers, else a fine copy of this scarce book. Fully illustrated with b&w images. READ MORE about LAYOUT FILE FOR PRINTERS, ADVERTISERS AND PRINTING BUYERS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 138780
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
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
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
N.P. National Book League, 1949. 8vo. paper wrappers. 121, (7) pages. Describes 777 books. Introduction by Desmond Flower. READ MORE about FIFTH INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF BOOK DESIGN 1955
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 126263
(New York, NY): American Institute of Graphic Arts, The, 1963. 8vo. cloth boards. 50, (6) pages. Issued by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) showing the 50 best American books of 1962. A near fine copy. With all of the best of American designers illustrated. READ MORE about THE FIFTY BOOKS OF THE YEAR 1962: EXHIBITION OF 1963
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 138734
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
(London: First Edition Club), various. Have the following issues of this yearly catalogue: For the year 1936. 9th Exhibition. 27, (5) pages. Exhibition opened by Holbrook Jackson. Soiled (2) For the year 1937. 10th Exhibition. 23, (9) pages. Exhibition opened by Sir Hugh Walpole. Soiled (2) For the year 1938. 11th Exhibition. 22, (2) pages. Soiled. Introduction by A.J.A. Symons in each volume. Price is per issue. READ MORE about FIFTY BOOKS SELECTED BY THE COMMITTEE OF THE FIRST EDITION CLUB FROM THOSE PUBLISHED IN GREAT...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 124842
Large collection of booklets concerning the best books of the year from various countries. This interesting collection contains various exhibition catalogues for the "best" books of the year which parallel our own "Fifty Books of the Year" exhibitions. Included are Australia (3), France (8), Switzerland (12), Great Britain (8), Netherlands (2), Germany (41), Sweden (4), Spain (5), Hungary (5), Austria (14) and the Scandanavian Countries (2). Price is for the group. READ MORE about LARGE COLLECTION OF BOOKLETS CONCERNING THE BEST BOOKS
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 54082
8vo. cloth. Eighth of the year books showing book design for various catagories of publishing. Comprises the 13th, 17th, 22nd, 25th, 26th, 33rd, 34th and 36th Annuals. Well produced. Illustrated. READ MORE about PHILADELPHIA BOOK SHOW
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 9938
N.P. National Book League, 1949. 8vo. paper wrappers. 55+(1) pages. Describes 300 books. READ MORE about THIRD INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF BOOK DESIGN 1949
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 91942
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
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
New York: American Institute of Graphic Arts Trade Book Clinic, 1951. oblong 8vo. paper wrappers. (12) pages. A catalogue from the exhibition which featured twelve young book designers. Illustrated with sample of their designs. Introductory comments by Merle Armitage, Eugen Ettenberg and Robert Josephy. READ MORE about YOUNG BOOK DESIGNERS EXHIBITION OPENING
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 60292
Frankfurt a.M. Stiftung Buchkunst, 1971. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 103+(1) pages. History, explanation of judging categories, data and statistical tables for the competition "Die schönsten deutschen Bücher" [the most beautiful German books] for 1951-1970 (cover states "1950-1970), with bibliography of prizewinning books. READ MORE about ZWANZIG JAHRE BUCHKUNST, ERGEBNISSE DER WETTBEWERBE 1951-1970, BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND [20...
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 52862
Toronto: The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library University of Toronto, 2001. 4to. wrappers. 99 pages. Exhibition catalogue of book history and print culture held at the University of Toronto. With descriptions of ninety nine items, black-and-white and color illustrations. A fine copy. READ MORE about BOOK HISTORY AND PRINT CULTURE: AN EXHIBITION CELEBRATING THE COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM AT THE...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 104446
Geneva, Ohio: Saturdays' Book Arts Gallery, 1988. oblong 8vo. half-cloth over marbled paper covered boards, with the original paper wrappers loosely inserted. (28) pages. A catalogue for the exhibition which featured British book arts of today. This copy is one of 40 numbered copies signed by Jan Sobota, who also executed the binding. Signed by Philip Smith. Furthermore, Bookbinders, Trevor Jones, Sarah Firmin, Angela James, and David Sellars were among the exhibitors. Illustrated. READ MORE about ASPECTS OF BRITISH BOOK ARTS TODAY
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 138042
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
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
New Castle, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts: Oak Knoll Press and Thomas G. Boss Fine Books, 1995. 8vo. cloth. xxiii, 216 pages. First edition. A fine copy. 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..... READ MORE about WILL H. BRADLEY: HIS WORK, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 41678
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
London & New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1906. small square 8vo. paper boards. 94, (2) pages. Reprint of the 1897 edition. Spine lightly age-darkened and lightly worn at the head of the spine. Covers lightly soiled. Else a very good copy. Ownership inscription in ink on front free endpaper. Cover design by Will Bradley. Volume dedicated to Russell's friend W. B. Yeats. George William Russell (10 April 1867 - 17 July 1935) who..... READ MORE about THE EARTH BREATH AND OTHER POEMS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 139286
Jersey City: American Type Founders Co., 1904. 12mo. printed paper-covered boards, paper cover label. 16 pages. Contains "Eighteenth-Century Chap-Books and Broadsides" by Bradley. (Huntington Exhibition no.36). Bradley was hired by the ATF to design ornaments and figures. He did a total of 12 issues of the American Chap-Book. Lacks the separately issued supplement. The hardbound version of these chapbooks were sold at a premium. Cracked along back hinge and wear at spine ends. READ MORE about AMERICAN CHAP-BOOK, I,1
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 116223