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
With an introduction by William Ross and notes by Rod McDonald.
Toronto and New Castle, Delaware: Coach House Press with Sheridan College and Oak Knoll Press, 2015. 9 x 11.25. hardcover cloth with wrap-around paper cover label, DVD in pocket in back. 130 pages numbered from the half title. With an introduction by William Ross and notes by Rod McDonald. "These letters document the immense skill that was required to take a letter from a drawing to a piece of type." - Jon Bath, SHARP News..... READ MORE about EPISTLES TO THE TORONTONIANS. WITH ARTICLES FROM CANADIAN PRINTER & PUBLISHER
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 126777
New York: The Grolier Club, 1992. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Printed in an edition limited 1500 copies. A checklist of an exhibition held at The Grolier Club, December 18, 1991 to March 12, 1992, on German printing. It was printed by letterpress from Joseph Blumenthal's Emerson and Hermann Zapf's Hunt roman types at The Stinehour Press. Includes 130 entries and is illustrated. READ MORE about GERMAN FINE PRINTING 1948-1988
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 59102
New York: The Grolier Club/Typophiles, 1992. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. not paginated. Printed in an edition limited 1500 copies. A checklist of an exhibition held at The Grolier Club, December 18, 1991 to March 12, 1992, on German printing. It was printed by letterpress from Joseph Blumenthal's Emerson and Hermann Zapf's Hunt roman types at The Stinehour Press. Includes 130 entries and is illustrated. Distributed for the Typophiles by Oak Knoll Press. READ MORE about GERMAN FINE PRINTING 1948-1988
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 61158
Mainz: Gutenberg Gesellschaft, 1978. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 32, (2) pages. Kleiner Druck 104. Includes a contribution by Hermann Zapf. Covers faded. READ MORE about GUTENBERG-PREIS DER STADT MAINZ UND DER GUTENBERG-GESELLSCHAFT
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 38250
Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1971. 8vo. cloth. xli, 88, xliii-xlviii pages. This edition reprints the first English manual intended for the private press printer. Fascinating reading, much of this information is good practical advice for those interested in letterpress printing, even today. With fifteen pages of type specimens, ornaments, and a priced catalogue devoted to all the other apparatus, this book describes the Parlour Press, a hinged bellows-type press operated by a beaked lever on..... READ MORE about CHARLES HOLTZAPFFEL'S PRINTING APPARATUS FOR THE USE OF AMATEURS REPRINTED FROM THE THIRD GREATLY...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 11930
Wiesbaden: Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, 1971. small folio. cloth. 237+(1) pages. A celebration of the history of printing in Germany during the 15th century. Lacking the dust jacket, else a fine copy. Contains 100 facsimile plates each accompanied by text describing the work of a German printer. Designed by Hermann Zapf. READ MORE about DEUTSCHE BUCHDRUCKER DES FUNFZEHNTEN JAHRHUNDERTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 15994
Premio Internazionale Felice Feliciano, Atti del Simposio 1989
Verona: Valdonega, (1990). 4to. stiff paper. (viii), 13-139 pages. Premio Internazionale Felice Feliciano, Atti del Simposio 1989. Papers by Hermann Zapf (calligraphy to computer type), Ernesto Musumeci (quality of color reproduction in large editions), Libero Casagrande (books and new word processing technologies), Alberto Vigevani (quality in editions), and Carolyn Morrow (durability of materials and methods). In memoriam Felice Feliciano. English translations provided for all the papers. READ MORE about LA QUALITA NELLA PRODUZIONE DEL LIBRO
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 73946
Frankfurt: D. Stempel and Classen-Papier, (1989). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 101 pages. A history of this printing house. A fine copy in fine jacket. Introduction by Hermann Zapf. READ MORE about SCHWARZE KUNST - FARBIG : EINE DRUCKEREI IM WANDEL DER TECHNIK
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 136774
Vancouver/Sheffield: FPBA, 2009. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages. Issue 16. Collection of 14 essays about fine printing with articles on Reynolds Stone by Humphrey Stone, Hermann Zapf by Jerry Kelly, E. McKnight Kauffer by Graham Twemlow, and various reviews of new press books. Also includes an article on marbling regarding Ann Muir by Barry McKay. READ MORE about PARENTHESIS 16: THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 102370
Vancouver/Sheffield: FPBA, 2009. small 4to. hardcover, cloth portfolio, slipcase. 64 pages. Spring 2009 / Number 16 / Sebastian Carter, Editor THIS IS THE DELUXE EDITION bound in hardcover with a slipcase and includes a portfolio with twelve pieces of ephemera The Fine Press Book Fair | Michael Taylor Reynolds Stone | Alan Powers Reynolds Stone: lettering | Humphrey Stone Hermann Zapf | Jerry Kelly The Morison Lectures | Ian Rogerson Whatahell! | Simon Loxley Kickshaws..... READ MORE about PARENTHESIS 16: THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 137435
New York: American Printing History Association, 2009. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 47 pages. Barbara Heritage on collecting litho Jam Jar labels, Jerry Kelly on Hermann Zapf at 90, Richard L. Hopkins on saving printing history. READ MORE about PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION. NEW SERIES NO.6
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 115563
New York: The Typophiles, 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. 17+(1) pages plus 20 full-page plates. First edition. Edited by Abe Lerner, President of The Typophiles. Translated from the German by Stefan B. Polter. Issued to contradict an unfavorable review of Tiessen's books in "Fine Print." READ MORE about SERVING AUTHOR AND READER. ABOUT THE DESIGN OF MY BOOKS. TYPHOPHILE MONOGRAPH NEW SERIES NO. 4
Price: $8.50 Order nr. 21581
Frankfurt am Main: D. Stempel, n.d. square 8vo. self paper wrappers. (12) pages. This face was designed by Hermann Zapf. Near fine condition. READ MORE about OPTIMA, REGULAR, ITALIC, MEDIUM, SEMI BOLD, BLACK
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 31300
Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1997. 4to. paper-covered limp boards, dust jacket. (vi), 195, (3) pages, with 42 additional pages and 2 additional leaves of plates and other materials. Limited to 850, including 770 in "stiff covers" (limp boards). Some contents of this issue: Maureen Richardson on a papermaking tour of Japan (with 2 samples), John Dreyfus on Maximilien Vox, "Joan Ellis, a Lost Engraver from the Underwood School" (with reproductions of 8 wood engravings) by Hal..... READ MORE about MATRIX 17
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 124992
Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1991. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xv, 36 pages. First edition. The essays contained in this book examine the recent developments in printing technology. These new developments have opened the field of graphic arts from political, social or economic constraints that once threatened freedom of the press and helped assure the supremacy of the trade. Bidwell's introduction is followed by two essays entitled "Letterpress Printing, Photocomposition, and Desktop Publishing"..... READ MORE about CLASSICAL TYPOGRAPHY IN THE COMPUTER AGE. PAPERS PRESENTED AT A CLARK LIBRARY SEMINARY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 41325
N.P. Champion Papers, (1978). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 36 pages. Designed by Zapf and filled with his comments and illustrations, often produced in color. Covers rubbed with fading. READ MORE about CHAMPION PAPERS, THE PRINTING SALESMAN'S HERALD, BOOK 39, DEDICATED TO THE WORK OF HERMANN ZAPF
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 114284
London and Offenbach: Wynkyn de Worde Society and Bund Deutscher Buchkünstler, (1989). 4to. cloth. 251, (2) pages. A collection of about forty essays reflecting upon the personality and career of typographer, Hermann Zapf, including one by Zapf himself. Text is in German and English. Illustrated, some in color. Small water spot on front cover, else near fine. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about ABC-XYZAPF, FÜNFZIG JAHRE ALPHABET DESIGN
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 34513
Rochester: School of Printing, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1969. 8vo. paper wrappers. 4 page french fold. An announcement of the presentation of the Frederic W. Goudy Award to Hermann Zapf. Listed are his accomplishments and his type designs from 1940 to 1969. READ MORE about FIRST ANNUAL FREDERIC W. GOUDY AWARD. PRESENTED TO HERMANN ZAPF
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 57353
(New York: Amsterdam Continental Types, 1960). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, paper spine label. (62) pages. Lists 170 items and has many illustrations Also contains a list of type-faces designed by Zapf. Loosely inserted in a commemorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about HERMANN ZAPF, CALLIGRAPHER, TYPE-DESIGNER AND TYPOGRAPHER AN EXHIBITION ARRANGED AND CIRCULATED...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 10995
square 8vo., stiff paper wrappers. 12 pages. Illustrated. Being issue 93 of the Monotype Newsletter. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about HERMANN ZAPF
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 33409
Foreword by Robert Bringhurst
New York: The Typophiles, 2011. 4.5 x 7 inches. hardcover. 112 pages. Foreword by Robert Bringhurst. Typophiles Chapbook, New Series, 3. "Letterforms are things that nearly all of us in the Western world have learned to take for granted. We treat them much like door knobs, water taps, thermostats, and hinges. We evidently think (in defiance of all logic) that what we read or write matters far more than how it's read or written, and..... READ MORE about ABOUT MORE ALPHABETS: THE TYPES OF HERMANN ZAPF
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 107426
Foreword by Robert Bringhurst
New York: The Typophiles, 2011. 4.5 x 7 inches. hardcover, slipcase. 112 pages. Foreword by Robert Bringhurst. Deluxe edition signed by the author and limited to 75 copies. Includes four type specimens in a paper folder and a slipcase for the book and specimen folder. Typophiles Chapbook, New Series, 3. "Letterforms are things that nearly all of us in the Western world have learned to take for granted. We treat them much like door knobs..... READ MORE about ABOUT MORE ALPHABETS: THE TYPES OF HERMANN ZAPF
Price: $170.00 Order nr. 109481
Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press, (1970). oblong 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (iv), 123, (3) pages. Reprint of the expensive first edition of 1954. Dust jacket shows minor shelfwear, else fine. "Contains 100 typographic pages with quotations from the past and present on types and printing in 16 different languages and designed by Hermann Zapf." From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about MANUALE TYPOGRAPHICUM
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 21325
N.P. (Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1975). small 8vo. paper wrappers. 39+(1) pages. Commemorates Hermann Zapf's winning the 1974 Gutenberg Prize. Includes speech by Giovanni Mardersteig. READ MORE about GUTENBERG-PREIS DER STADT MAINZ UND DER GUTENBERG-GESELLSCHAFT VERLIEHEN AN HERMANN ZAPF
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 50676
