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: 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
Boston: Machine Composition Co., 1929. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Not in Ulrich & Kup. One issue (Vol.X, 2 - January 1929). Features a speech by Melbert Cary, President of Continental Type Founders along with a showing of type faces. READ MORE about NEW-ENGLAND COMPOSITOR (THE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 40797
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
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
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
New York, NY: The Spiral Press, 1969. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (12) pages. Cronenwett 522. Limited to 250 copies. Foreword. Based on a discussion between Blumenthal and the Society in Boston on December 6, 1991. READ MORE about NOTES PREPARED FOR AN INFORMAL DISCUSSION BETWEEN JOSPEH BLUMENTHAL AND THE SOCIETY OF PRINTERS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 124936
New York: Frederic C. Beil, (1982). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 153, (3) pages. Illustrated autobiography by this book designer. With information on The Spiral Press. Presentation copy "for Mary Ahern with friendly greetings Joe B- March/'83." READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIC YEARS, A PRINTER'S JOURNEY THROUGH A HALF-CENTURY
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 58046
New York: Frederic C. Beil, (1982). 8vo. cloth. viii, 153, (3) pages. Illustrated autobiography by this book designer. With information on The Spiral Press. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIC YEARS, A PRINTER'S JOURNEY THROUGH A HALF-CENTURY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 62288
New York: Frederic C. Beil, (1982). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 153, (3) pages. Illustrated autobiography by this book designer. With information on The Spiral Press. Presentation copy "for Mike (McCurdy) affectionatly and respectfully, Joe, December /'86."Jacket chipped with large tear in front cover. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIC YEARS, A PRINTER'S JOURNEY THROUGH A HALF-CENTURY
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 114824
New York, NY: The Grolier Club, (1982). 8vo. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, gilt-stamped spine, slipcase with paper spine label. (xii), 153, (3) pages. Limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by the author on colophon. Presentation by the author on half title. Acknowledgments, list of subscribers, table of contents, index. Illustrations. Grolier Club ephemera laid in. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIC YEARS, A PRINTER'S JOURNEY THROUGH A HALF-CENTURY, 1925-1975
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 129925
(New York, NY: Madison Square Press, 1994). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages. Acknowledgments, table of contents, introduction by Neville Brody. Indices of design firms, designers, letterers, and clients. Listing of design firm addresses. The third volume of Brier's series on typography. Color illustrations throughout. Publication press release laid in. READ MORE about INTERNATIONAL TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN NO. 2
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 121842
New York: New York Public Library, 1948. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 211 pages. Lists of bibliographies followed by directory and chronological index of names and newspapers and magazines by city. Lists marblers. READ MORE about DIRECTORY OF PRINTING, PUBLISHING, BOOKSELLING & ALLIED TRADES IN RHODE ISLAND TO 1865
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 19970
(New York: H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Co., 1936). 8vo. cloth. 17, (3) pages. First edition. An address given by Bryson at the National Arts Club of New York. 52nd Keepsake of the A.I.G.A. READ MORE about THE TEXTBOOK OF THE FUTURE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 945
Berkeley: Wingbow Press, (1974). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 127 pages. Second printing. With Illustrations by Chuck Miller. READ MORE about PRINTING IT A GUIDE TO GRAPHIC TECHNIQUES FOR THE IMPECUNIOUS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 688
(Rochester: Graphic Arts Research Center, 1973). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (x), 175 pages. Argument for the adoption of the metric system in the U.S. printing industry. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. Bibliography, Index and Colophon. Soiled wrappers. Foxing on edges of text block. READ MORE about GOING METRIC WITH THE US PRINTING INDUSTRY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 106307
2 Volumes.
Washington, DC: United States Government, 1978. broadsides (15 by 10 inches). 2 Volumes. Facsimiles of a joint resolution of Congress and a Presidential proclamation, both dated June 14, 1978, honoring the 100th anniversery of American university presses. Both with the facsimile signature of President Carter. The joint resolution of Congress signed by House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, Jr., and Acting President Pro Tempore of the Senate Paul Hatfield (D-Montana). Both documents stained. READ MORE about Joint Resolution of Congress and Presidential Proclamation honoring American University Presses
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 128626
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 22, (2) pages. Information on the process of rubber plate printing, which may be useful to students of printing. Illustrated with diagrams. Covers rubbed. READ MORE about RUBBER PLATES FOR THE PRINTER
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 57248
New York: The Century Co., 1901. small 8vo. cloth, leather spine label, top edge gilt. viii, 476 pages. First edition. (Hart no.14). Covers rubbed. Spine label has very small piece missing. Label removed from corner of free endpaper leaving a mark. READ MORE about CORRECT COMPOSITION A TREATISE ON SPELLING, ABBREVIATIONS, THE COMPOUNDING AND DIVISION OF WORDS,...
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 121944
