Philadelphia, PA: J.W. Pepper, n.d. broadside (13 3/4 by 9 3/4 inches). Advertisement for a new journal for orchestral and band music. Includes price list for various works. With illustrations of Wm. F. Kretschmer and Maurice Akst, composers and arrangers. Folded. READ MORE about Advertisement for ORCHESTRA
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 130607
N.P. A.A.A.A. AND N.A.M.P. Joint Committee on Magazine Advertising Reproduction, 1948. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 5+(1) pages. Report No. 1. A report on improving the appearance of magazine advertising. READ MORE about IMPROVING THE PHYSICAL PRESENTATION OF ADVERTISING IN MAGAZINES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 133577
New York, NY: American Association of Advertising Agencies, 1951. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 6 pages. Special edition, Revised Report No. 3. List of committee members, introductory note, table of contents. READ MORE about RECOMMENDED STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS FOR ADVERTISING REPRODUCTION MATERIAL IN MAGAZINE LETTERPRESS...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 133576
Willow Street, PA: Graphic Crafts, (1981). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Foreword, black and white illustrations. An alphabetical collection of American trades and crafts advertised in the 1870s and 1880s. Brochures laid in. READ MORE about AN ALPHABET OF THE TRADES OF YESTERYEAR
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134236
New York: Art Directors Club, various dates. 4to. cloth or boards, some jackets. Price is per Volume. 40 1961, 44 1965, 45 1966, 46 1967, 47 1968 (2), 48 1969 (2), 49 1970, 50 1971(3), 51 1972, 57 1978, 62 1983, 64 1985, 71 1992. Annual. Each volume is profusely illustrated and gives the names of award winners for design. READ MORE about ANNUAL OF ADVERTISING & EDITORIAL ART & DESIGN
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 282
Menasha, WI: George Banta Publishing Company, n.d., circa. 1930. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. x, 45+(1) pages. A study of the effective use of art in advertising. Completed with the assistance of the Barney Link Research Fellowship Committee and members of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, psychololgy department. Foreword and table of contents. Includes statistical tables and the results of field tests. Black and white illustrations. Wrappers lightly faded. READ MORE about THE VALUES OF ART IN ADVERTISING
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 109335
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (1995). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiii, (iii), 259 pages. First Edition. Near fine in near fine jacket. This book offers an interesting perspective on printing and typography, book design and illustration, and modernism and publishing during an era of great change.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about TRADING WORDS; POETRY, TYPOGRAPHY AND ILLUSTRATED BOOKS IN THE MODERN LITERARY ECONOMY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 50230
Paris: Dunod, 1920. 8vo. cloth. (iv), 282 pages. Text in French. No. VI in "La Technique des Affaires" series. Guidebook for printing techniques, design, letters, advertising and catalogues. Black and white illustrations. 12 black and white plates. Boards faded at edges. Light tanning. READ MORE about LES AFFAIRES ET L'IMPRIMÉ
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 107632
2 volumes.
Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1971. small 8vo. cloth. (xiv),416; (vi),417-823+(1) pages. 2 volumes. Number 16 in The Besterman World Bibliographies series. The areas of money, economics, taxation, finance and advertising are among the individual topics included. Broken down by general bibliographies, dictionaries, periodicals, and countries as well as many other subjects, the entries are in chronological order, with number of entries cited. READ MORE about COMMERCE MANUFACTURES AND LABOUR, A BIBLIOGRAPY OF BIBLIOGRAPHIES
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 62068
Köln: "Der Jungbuchhandel" Hans Schulte, 1955. 8vo. paper wrappers. 61, (3) pages. A guide to the science of advertising and sales for booksellers. Wrapper slightly discolored. READ MORE about WERBE- UND VERKAUFSKUNDE FUR DEN BUCHHANDEL
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 50622
Washington: Page Two, Inc., 1995. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 56, (2) pages. A source book for papermakers, calligraphers, decorators, designers, etc. Lists printmakers, paper artists, fine printers and publishers, bookbinders/conservators, artist bookmakers, libraries and museums, periodicals, suppliers, and schools. Advertisements. Gift subscription card and post card laid in. READ MORE about BOOK ARTS DIRECTORY(THE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 114505
Denver, CO: Colorcorp, (1998). 4to. paper-covered boards. 106, (6) pages. Table of contents, cross references and indices, display pages. Color illustrations. READ MORE about BOOK PRODUCTION BUYER'S GUIDE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134249
Berlin: Verlag Ullstein, n.d. (circa 1925). 8vo. marbled paper-covered boards, paper cover label, top edge stained blue, fore and bottom edges uncut. 75, (11) pages. Examines the booktrade through newspaper advertisements; includes 7 pages of early bookseller's advertisements. Covers rubbed around edges and spine faded. READ MORE about DER DEUTSCHE BUCHHANDEL IM SPIEGEL DER VOSSISCHEN ZEITUNG, XUM HUNDERTJÄHRIGEN JUBILÄUM DES...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 48506
Paris, France: Compagnie Française, d'Éditions Emmanuel Olive, n.d. (1960). 4to. paper-covered boards. unpaginated. Text in French. A collection of typography, illustration, advertising and other specimens by various French firms. Lists of artists and collaborators, printers, paper manufacturers, and photographers follows text. Covers rubbed and scuffed at edges. Inside back hinge cracked. Lacking dust jacket. READ MORE about CARACTÉRE NOËL
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 132240
Wilbraham, MA: Wm. Frost Mobley, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 136 pages. Table of contents, introduction, price list. A collection of trade cards, broadsides, business stationery, and other ephemera. Black and white illustrations throughout. Signed by Mobley on contents page. READ MORE about CATALOG NUMBER 2 WM. FROST MOBLEY PRESENTS A VISUAL HISTORY OF TRADES AND PROFESSIONS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 122935
A Selective Bibliography 1960-1970
Troy NY: Whitson Publishing Company, 1975. 8vo. cloth. (iv), x, (ii), 134 pages. A Selective Bibliography 1960-1970. Compiled by Dorothy Jorstad, Lorene Linder, Donald Phillips, and Jean Porter. Contains sections on: advertizing, art, education, fiction, films, group communication, mass media, music poetry, speech communication, and theatre. Author index. READ MORE about CREATIVITY IN THE COMMUNICATIVE ARTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 97505
Paris: Dunod, 1921. 8vo. cloth. (iv), 548 pages. Text in French. No. VII in "La technique des affaires" series. Guidebood to advertising techniques for businesses. Black and white illustrations and plates throughout. Boards scuffed at corners and spine. Light tanning. READ MORE about LES AFFAIRES ET L'ANNONCE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 107633
London, England: Edw. Minister & Son, n.d. broadside (11 by 8 inches). Text in French. An advertising broadside in color. Lightly tanned. READ MORE about courrier de la mode
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 132875
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, (1968). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 112 pages plus 209 plates. First American Edition. A book about packaging before the word "packaging" was invented. History of the development of packaging and container and label design from the sixteenth century. Light wear to jacket. READ MORE about PACKAGE AND PRINT, THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONTAINER AND LABEL DESIGN
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 25712
(London): Faber and Faber, (1967). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 112 pages plus 209 plates. First Edition. A book about packaging before the word "packaging" was invented. History of the development of packaging and container and label design from the sixteenth century. Jacket chipped along edges and is price clipped. READ MORE about PACKAGE AND PRINT, THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONTAINER AND LABEL DESIGN
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 105411
Maple Shade: Pickering Press, n.d. 7" x 9.75" Single sheet. This small broadside promises satisfaction with high quality work from the engraving block of John DePol and the presswork of John Anderson at the Pickering Press, which combines DePol's engravings with Mother's Day, Father's Day or Valentine's Day greetings. According to this leaf, DePol's "fees are modest in view of the Great Care and Precision exersized and is work is ready, more often than not..... READ MORE about ADVERTISEMENT FOR JOHN DEPOL AND THE PICKERING PRESS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 79290
Promoting America from Columbus to Today
Dallas: Southern Methodist University, 1992. 4to. Stiff paper wrappers. 72+(1) pages. Promoting America from Columbus to Today. 91 items well-described in this exhibition catalogue. Contains 26 color and black-and-white interspersed throughout. Errata slip in front of colophon. Minor shelfwear and creases near spine ends. READ MORE about THE LITERATURE OF BEGUILEMENT
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 97211
Chicago, IL: Chicago Paper Co., n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Offers advice on advertising. Illustrated. Pages French fold. Illustrated. Covers lightly soiled. READ MORE about FOLDWELL
Price: $120.00 Order nr. 133607
New York, NY: John B. Alden, 1888. 12mo. original paper wrappers. 7-27, (11) pages. A rare early pre-released chapter from The Holy Land and the Bible. A sample chapter to encourage sales published in The Irving Library IV:193 (January 18, 1888), which also includes advertisements for other publications. Includes six engraved plates to be included in the published work. Worldcat includes an entry for Geikie's work published in 1891. The chapter here published discusses Joppa..... READ MORE about A CHAPTER FROM THE HOLY LAND AND THE BIBLE: JOPPA AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 128821
An Illustrated History
(Greenwich, Connecticut): New York Graphic Society, (1973). 4to. cloth, dust jacket, original cardboard slipcase. (vi), 96 pages, plus 96 pages of plates. An Illustrated History. English version of Die Welt der Spiel Karte (Edition Leipzig, 1972). This comprehensive survey of the history of playing cards from 16th through the 20th century includes examples from China, India, Persia, Japan and Turkey as well as Italy, Spain, Germany, and France. It contains numerous black & white and..... READ MORE about THE PLAYING CARD
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 108414
