(New York, NY): Amalgamated Printers Association, 1978. 16mo. loose broadsides inserted in box with printed cover label. unpaginated. A set of 17 privately printed keepsakes from the APA's Wayzgoose meeting of 1979. READ MORE about APA WAYZGOOSE GEM BOX
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 121886
Middletown, CT: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, (1960). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Introductory comments by Russell T. Limbach. A study of the laboratory's privately printed publications since 1943. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about ART LABORATORY IMPRESSIONIS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 128573
New York, NY: Pierpont Morgan Library, (1973). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 192, (2) pages. Table of contents, preface, foreword, acknowledgments, list of plates, select bibliography, index. Essay by Joseph Blumenthal. Black and white plates including one foldout. READ MORE about ART OF THE PRINTED BOOK 1455-1955; MASTERPIECES OF TYPOGRAPHY THROUGH FIVE CENTURIES FROM THE...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 129963
San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Center for the Book, 2001. 4to. self paper wrappers. 31+(1) pages. A catalogue of classes and exhibitions on book arts, binding, printing, and related subjects. READ MORE about BOOK ARTS CLASSES AND EXHIBITIONS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 129401
(New York, NY: The Cooper Union), 1994. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. A brochure published in connection with the exhibition "From Gutenberg to the Government." Commentary by William Bevington. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about CONCISE INFORMATION: A GENERAL SURVEY OF CONCISION: TYPOGRAPIC, EDITORIAL, AND VISUAL
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 131768
San Francisco, CA: Black Stone Press, 1980. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 42 pages. Limited to 250 copies. Table of contents, biographical sketches of contributors. A collection of essays and poetic works. Illustrations. Corrigenda laid in. READ MORE about DEAD START: A JOURNAL OF LETTERS, DESIGN AND TYPOGRAPHIC PRINTMAKING
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 125060
Newark: University of Delaware, (1931). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper cover label. 143 pages. B1-4670. Seventh series. With a one page prefatory note by the editor, Ezra B. Crooks. Article by H. Clay Reed on "Lincoln's Compensated Emancipation Plan and its relation to Delaware", Joseph Sidney Gould on "Three Decades of Delaware's Manufacturers" and other articles by Delaware faculty on non-Delaware related subjects. Remnants of paper label on front cover. READ MORE about DELAWARE NOTES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67275
New York: The Haberule Co., (1959). square 8vo. fabric covers with plastic spiral binding. (68) pages. "A new and improved method of type calcualting which reduces to simple terms the whole complex problem of copy-casting." Text following by list of type faces and point sizes, a plastic rule inserted in a pocket in the booklet and a built in pica scale. READ MORE about HABERULE VISUAL COPY-CASTER
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 121988
Newark, NJ: Jaenecke Printing Ink Co., n.d. broadside (8 3/4 by 12 inches). Illustrated publisher's advertisement, in five colors. Slightly tanned. Top edge chipped. Staple marks on left edge. READ MORE about JAENECKE PRINTING INK CO
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 128039
New York, NY: Henry Lindenmeyr and Sons, n.d. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Book number 5 in the Lindenmeyr Library of Print Shop Helps. A guide to producing illustrations in printed text. READ MORE about A PICTURE IS MORE THAN AN IMAGE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134323
Saint Louis: Inland Type Foundry, 1907. 8vo. paper wrappers. Ulrich & Kup p.59. The house organ of this type foundry. Includes the following: Volume 8, no.12 (December 1906), Volume 9, no.1 (January 1907). READ MORE about PRACTICAL PRINTER (THE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 42790
New York: Precision Rule Company, (1950). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 46 pages. Trade catalogue issued by this company showing rules for the printer. Filled with illustrations. Tipped-in is a price list from January 1950. READ MORE about PRECISION HAND PLANED RULES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 91383
New York: George F. Nesbitt & Co., n.d. broadside, 34 by 11 inches. Reproduction of a broadside advertising a banquet to be held on January 17, 1851, to commemorate the 145th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin at Niblo's to benefit the Printer's Library. Includes a listing of events of the evening and listings of the officers of the library and the program committee. Decorated border with illustrations of Franklin. Folded, and inserted in..... READ MORE about PRINTER'S BANQUET: CELEBRATION OF FRANKLIN'S BIRTHDAY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 109595
New York: George F. Nesbitt & Co., n.d. broadside, 34 by 11 inches. Reproduction of a broadside advertising a banquet to be held on January 17, 1851, to commemorate the 145th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin at Niblo's to benefit the Printer's Library. Includes a listing of events of the evening and listings of the officers of the library and the program committee. Decorated border with illustrations of Franklin. READ MORE about PRINTER'S BANQUET: CELEBRATION OF FRANKLIN'S BIRTHDAY
Price: $14.00 Order nr. 109607
Albany: Delmar, 1955. 4to. pictorial paper-covered boards. vi, 201+(1) pages. Textbook designed to teach the basics of printing design and layout. Boards are worn at the extremities, with a dark smudge on the rear board. READ MORE about PRINTING LAYOUT AND DESIGN
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 91053
Dayton, OH: The Set-O-Type Co., (1930). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 15+(1) pages. Extols the virtues of Set-O-Type automatic typesetting equipment. Black and white illustrations. Wrappers lightly soiled. Back wrapper separated. READ MORE about SET-O-TYPE: A REVOLUTIONARY METHOD OF SAVING AND MAKING MONEY IN YOUR MULTIGRAPHING
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 120151
San Francisco: Taylor & Taylor, 1917. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Volume XVIII (Winter 1917) of this periodical issued by this San Franisco printer. With color. Cover damaged. READ MORE about T & T IMPRINT
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 40832
With a new introduction by John Bidwell.
New York: Garland Publishing, 1981. 8vo. cloth. xviii page introductory material followed by 288 page facsimile, (4) pages. With a new introduction by John Bidwell. Reprint of the 1844 second edition. (Bigmore & Wyman I,3). The first edition was issued in 1837. This was the second practical printing manual issued by an American author; it was compiled from many of the facts given by Hansard and Johnson. Illustrated. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIA: OR THE PRINTER'S INSTRUCTOR; A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE ORIGIN RISE, AND PROGRESS OF THE...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 22587
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1968. 8vo. paper wrappers. (iv), 44 pages. Contains "The Private Press: Its Essence and Recrudescence" by Archer and "Tradition and the Printers of Southern California" by Ritche. Covers faded. READ MORE about MODERN FINE PRINTING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 108091
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1949. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. A listing of individuals with brief commentary on their situation. Text includes A. R. Tommasini and former Minnesota state senator and judge Earl Gustafson. Text lists photographer as William Miner, but contains no photographs. Fading on spine. Fading, creasing and small tears along edges of paper wrappers. READ MORE about JUST REMEMBERING
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 98910
Their Materials, Processing, and Conservation
Rochester: Graphic Arts Research Center, (1980). 4to. cloth. (xii), 149, (3) pages. Their Materials, Processing, and Conservation. With a preface by Larry Booth. Includes sections on Technical Evolution of Processes, Raw Materials and Processing Procedures, and Permanence and Preservation of Photographic Materials. Original paper wrappers bound in. Boards rubbed and lightly soiled, corners bumped. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES IN USE BEFORE 1880
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 99439
Volume 35, Number 2 of the Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress
(Washington D.C.): Library of Congress, April 1978. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (v), 66-138, (4) pages. Volume 35, Number 2 of the Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress. This issue has the following articles: "The Invention of Printing, Revolution within Revolution" by Nicholas Barker, "The Early Illustrated Book, Highlights from a Lecture" by Philip Hofer, "Into Something Rich and Strange, Of Dreams, Art, and the Unconscious" by Eleanor Cameron, and "The Hauslab-Liechtenstein Map Collection" by..... READ MORE about " INVENTION OF PRINTING, REVOLUTION WITHIN REVOLUTION."
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 92761
Caldwell, NJ: Litho Books, 1964. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, spiral bound. 95+(1) pages. Third printing. Table of contents, biographical sketch of the author, introduction. Illustrated. READ MORE about THE MAGIC OF MAKING HALFTONES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134245
3 Volumes.
New York, NY: Allworth Press, (1994). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, slipcase. xviii, 19-245+(1); xiv, 273+(1); xx, 283+(1) pages. 3 Volumes. A collection of essays on graphic design. Introduction by Steven Heller. Each volume with introduction, acknowledgments, biographical sketches of contributors, and index. Foreword by Heller in Volume 3, in which Rick Poyner contributed to the introduction. Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about LOOKING CLOSER: CRITICAL WRITINGS ON GRAPHIC DESIGN
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 121625
(Rochester, NY): Rochester Institute of Technology for the National Composition Association, 1983. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 42 pages. Biographical sketch of the author, table of contents, introduction, summary. Tables and charts. READ MORE about PRICING STRATEGIES FOR THE TYPESETTING INDUSTRY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134256
