Philadelphia, PA: Lanston Monotype Machine Co., 1912. 8vo. cloth. 294 pages. First edition. Some soiling to the covers. Front gutter cracked. Soiling throughout with some plates and pages torn. READ MORE about THE MONOTYPE SYSTEM, A BOOK FOR OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF MONOTYPES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 134943
Boston: Society of Printers, 1916. 8vo. cloth backed boards, paper cover label. 50 pages. First edition, limited to only 250 copies. Printed by the University Press. This interesting copy contains a four page brochure issued by the Society of Printers for a meeting held in 1947 in which George Marsh was going to talk on "New Methods and Materials and their Influence on Style." The brochure give a two page biographical sketch of Marsh and..... READ MORE about GIAMBATTISTA BODONI OF PARMA
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 78166
Boston: Society of Printers, 1916. 8vo. cloth backed boards, paper cover label. 50 pages. First edition, limited to only 250 copies. Printed by the University Press. Soiling around the edges of the covers. Spine lacking. Bookplate of Frederic Melcher on front pastedown. READ MORE about GIAMBATTISTA BODONI OF PARMA
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 134944
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1924. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, dust jacket. (viii), 69+(1) pages. First edition. Chapters on planning of printing, style in the use of type, seven champions of typography, etc. Author's note, table of contents. A consideration of printing, type, and typography. Tears to the spine ends of the dust jacket, jacket lightly toned. Endpapers and pastedowns lightly toned due to the dust jacket. A near fine copy and very unusual..... READ MORE about IN THE DAY'S WORK
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 132093
N.P. privately printed, 1926. 4to. cloth spine, boards, slipcase. (ii), 8, (2) pages. First edition in English, limited to 190 numbered copies; this copy is out of series. Tail of spine missing. Top corner of front board bumped. Slipcase worn around the edges in places, however it is overall a beautiful copy. READ MORE about JEAN GUTTEMBERG, INVENTOR OF PRINTING, A TRANSLATION OF THE ESSAY IN ANDRE THEVET'S "VIES...
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 11190
London: Grafton & Co., 1927. thick 8vo. original cloth. x, 390 pages. First edition. (Appleton p.54). With articles on Germany by Ernst Crous, Italy by G. Fumagalli, France by Charles Mortet, Holland and Belgium by Maurits Sabbe, Spanish America by G.P. Winship, North America by Lawrence C. Wroth and others. Lacking the dust jacket. Spine sunned, else near fine. READ MORE about PRINTING, A SHORT HISTORY OF THE ART
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4605
London: Elkin Mathews, 1927. 8vo. cloth. (viii), 171 pages. First edition. (Webber p.129). "A great deal of practical information and suggestions which will prove of value to even the most experienced collector." Lacks dust jacket. Crack on spine. Spot on front cover. READ MORE about THE ELEMENTS OF BOOK-COLLECTING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 19273
Chicago: Eyncourt Press, 1930. 8vo. cloth. 29 pages. First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies, with this copy being unnumbered. With reproductions of a number of printers' marks. Fine condition. READ MORE about PRINTERS' MARKS AND THEIR SIGNIFCANCE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 19937
Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Co., 1930. 4to. cloth. (x), 65, (2) pages. Illustrated book showing all parts that go into making up a linotype machine. Inserted in the back is a large foldout broadside showing a machine. A fine copy. READ MORE about LINOTYPE LEADERSHIP
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 24613
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. 8vo. cloth-backed gold paper-covered boards. xxx, 201 pages. First edition. (Hart no.20). Foreword by Frederic Goudy. Gress covers "the various periods at which decided changes in the matter of type design or changed tastes in type arrangement took place." Lacking the dust jacket. Wear to the head of the spine. READ MORE about FASHIONS IN AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHY 1780 TO 1930 WITH BRIEF ILLUSTRATED STORIES OF THE LIFE AND...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 48002
New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1936. thick 8vo. cloth. xviii, 462 pages. First edition, volume II was the only volume completed as McMurtrie died shortly thereafter. The Story of the Introduction of the Press and of its History and Influence during the Pioneer Period in Each State of the Union. Volume II, Middle & South Atlantic States. An important history of American printing. Spine and upper edge of the front cover is lightly sunned..... READ MORE about A HISTORY OF PRINTING IN THE UNITED STATES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 11183
New York: n.p., 1936. 8vo. boards. 169 pages. First edition. A classic book in the field and an essential reference book. Covers faded with some spotting. Rear hinge cracked. READ MORE about HISTORICAL TREATISES, ABSTRACTS & PAPERS ON STEREOTYPING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 73415
New York: Oxford University Press, 1938. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 122 pages. Second edition. Spine sunned. READ MORE about MANUSCRIPT & PROOF, THE PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPT FOR THE PRINTER AND THE HANDLING OF THE PROOFS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 16983
New York: Reinhold Publishing Co., 1940. 8vo. cloth. 560 pages. First edition. 18 separate chapters devoted to printing and ink. With a glossary. Name of former owner stamped in corner of front cover. READ MORE about PRINTING INKS, THEIR CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 28290
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 225 pages. First edition in English. (Appleton p.15). Translated from the French by Harry Miller Lydenberg. Near fine in very good dust jacket. READ MORE about THE ORIGINS OF PRINTING AND ENGRAVING
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 114426
Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1941. 8vo. cloth. xii, 143 pages. First edition. Discusses printing history, printer's tools, methods of work, type design, etc. Lacking the dust jacket. Spine faded. READ MORE about PRINTERS AND PRINTING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 4744
New York: The Typophiles, 1947. 12mo. cloth. xiv, 152, (3) pages. First edition, limited to 900 copies. Exlibrary with markings. Else a fine copy. Chapbook XVII. With many illustrations. Printed at the Anthoensen Press. READ MORE about MSS. BY WAD, BEING A COLLECTION OF THE WRITINGS OF DWIGGINS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, SOME CRITICAL,...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 2277
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 181, (xii) pages. First U.S. edition. Dust jacket chipped along edges, else a near fine copy. Illustrated guide to book collecting written as a series of letters. Includes a short history of book production and binding (S-K 1599). READ MORE about BOOK-COLLECTING AS A HOBBY, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO EVERYMAN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 9796
New York: The Printing House of Leo Hart, 1948. 8vo. red cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 94 pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Fading to back cover. READ MORE about ISAIAH THOMAS, PRINTER, PATRIOT AND PHILANTHROPIST, 1749-1831
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 5226
London: Odhams Press Ltd., (1948). 8vo. cloth. 448 pages. Reprint of the 1946 first edition. Full of practical information. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Spine slightly faded. READ MORE about PRACTICAL PRINTING AND BINDING; A COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN ALL BRANCHES OF...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 5925
New York: Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, 1948. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. Second printing. Interesting figures about early U.S. printers. A good copy. READ MORE about PRINTING IN AMERICA - AND AMERICAN TYPE FOUNDERS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 16425
Rochester: Leo Hart, (1950). 8vo. cloth. xv, 146 pages. First edition. (Appleton p.40). Lacking the dust jacket. Spine slightly faded. Else a near fine copy. With 25 figures and 19 plates. Excellent book on the beginning of printing. READ MORE about PETER SCHOEFFER OF GERNSHEIM AND MAINZ WITH A LIST OF HIS SURVIVING BOOKS AND BROADSIDES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 31482
Chicago: The Printing Office of Philip Reed, 1953. small 8vo. cloth-backed boards. 38, (2) pages. First edition, limited to 495 numbered copies. A near fine copy. With illustrations of a number of American presses including Ruggles' Engine Press, Gordon's Alligator Press, the Liberty, the Clamshell press and others. Gives a chronological list of presses. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF THE PLATEN JOBBER
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 4307
London: Blandford Press, (1953). small 4to. cloth. 335 pages. First edition of this classic book. Lacks dust jacket, else a near fine copy. READ MORE about THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF TYPE FACES
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 121977
Illustrated by Arthur Wragg.
(London and Emmaus, PA): The Rodale Press, (1954). 12mo. cloth-backed boards. 42 pages. Illustrated by Arthur Wragg. Reprint of the first published work of Flaubert, a story written when he was fifteen years old. A fine copy. The classic story of Don Vincente, an Italian bookseller - collector, and the lengths he went to to add to his collection. READ MORE about BIBLIOMANIA, A TALE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 16200
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1960). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 224 pages. First edition. Jacket spine slightly faded with some spotting. Fine condition. READ MORE about PRINTING IN LONDON FROM 1476 TO MODERN TIMES COMPETITIVE PRACTICE AND TECHNICAL INVENTION IN THE...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 41083
New York: Bell Publishing Co., (1966). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 228 pages. Third edition, 2nd printing. Revised and written with the colloboration of David Randall. Tail of the dust jacket chipped with minor loss, minor rubbing to jacket. Else a fine copy. READ MORE about A PRIMER OF BOOK COLLECTING
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 11101
Washington: International Typographic Composition Assoc. (1966). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 40 pages. 31 sections covering all aspects of production. READ MORE about GUIDE TO BUYERS OF TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 24803
Chicago: American Technical Society, (1967). 8vo. cloth. vi, 570 pages. Reprint of the revised 1967 edition. Many illustrations. READ MORE about GRAPHIC ARTS PROCEDURES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 109568
Mainz: Gutenberg Museum, 1970. small 4to. cloth, paper cover label. 40 pages. English edition. Illustrated with some in color. Bookplate on front pastedown of the bookseller H.P. Kraus. READ MORE about GUTENBERG-MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF MAINZ, WORLD MUSEUM OF PRINTING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 22190
Boston: Beacon Press, (1971). 8vo. paper wrappers. (viii), 119+(1) pages. Reprint of first paperback edition. A guide to recognition and identification of the meaning of type. Spine faded. READ MORE about PRINTING TYPES, AN INTRODUCTION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 50451
New York: Hastings House, 1972. Publishers. (1972), 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. ix, 301 pages. A study of changes in typesetting practive as influenced by changing technology. READ MORE about LETTER ASSEMBLY IN PRINTING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 31712
Baltimore: Penguin Books, (1974). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 400 pages. Third edition. Near fine. With a Foreword by Beatrice Warde. One of the best one volume histories of printing. READ MORE about FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF PRINTING
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 35815
London: Academic Press, 1976. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. ix, 526 pages. First edition. Filled with illustrations. Tear with piece of dust jacket lacking from tail of spine. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF EUROPEAN PRINTING
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 30684
Berkeley: University of California, 1978. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 263 pages with 108 illustrations in the text and 64 plates. First paperback edition. An essential book for the student of printing history. Spine lightly faded, else near fine. READ MORE about PRINTING PRESSES, HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT FROM THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY TO MODERN TIMES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 135116
New York: Avon, (1979). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xxiii, 376 pages. First Avon edition. Lists dealers in new books, used books and antiquarian books. Near fine. READ MORE about BOOK-STORE BOOK, A GUIDE TO MANHATTAN BOOKSELLERS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 12356
New York: Dover Publications, (1979 but 1999). 4to. paper wrappers. x, 187 pages. Reprint of the 1943 edition. A fine copy. Dover has reproduced this classic book on printing in an inexpensive and attractive format. They have retained the wide margins and elegance of the book. READ MORE about PARAGRAPHS ON PRINTING
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 2521
New York: The Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection, 1980. 8vo. paper wrappers. 16 pages. Volume 1, Number 1. February 1980. READ MORE about FESTINA LENTE, THE JOURNAL OF THE MELBERT B. CARY, JR. GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135123
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1985. tall 8vo. cloth. xii, 66 pages. Limited to 400 copies. Minor dampstain to preliminary pages not affecting the text, else a near fine copy. This work discusses the development and use of the letterpress printer's composition matrix, showing its early and various forms in a way never described before. It describes details not revealed by the early makers of matrix-composing machines or by the historical texts which revealed the..... READ MORE about THE PRINTER'S COMPOSITION MATRIX, A HISTORY OF ITS ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 12424
1989. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Volume XI, No.2, 1989. James Fraser and others on Bernard Brussel-Smith, Elizabeth Harris on Philadelphia press builders, Stephen Saxe on the Ramage Proof Press, Jennifer Lee on typefounding in Philadelphia, and part 2 of Sarah Miller's article on the GPO. READ MORE about PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 35052
Terra Alta: Hill & Dale Press, (1989). 8vo. leatherette, slipcase. (xiv), 100, (3) pages. Reprint of the first edition, reset from the original and containing a few corrections. A history, with bibliography, of the development of this American printing measurement system. Illustrated, including some foldout plates. Of course, with much information on Nelson C. Hawks. Fine condition. READ MORE about THE ORIGIN OF THE AMERICAN POINT SYSTEM FOR PRINTERS' TYPE MEASUREMENT
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 42194
Edited by William Peterson.
(New York): Grolier Club, 1996. 8vo. quarter cloth with printed paper-covered boards. xii, (ii), 78, (3) pages. Edited by William Peterson. Enlarged and corrected edition, printed in an edition limited to 750 copies. To celebrate the Morris centenary year, the Grolier Club and the William Morris Society in the United States published this enlarged and corrected version of the very last book published by the Kelmscott Press. This autobiographical history of Morris and his Kelmscott..... READ MORE about A NOTE BY WILLIAM MORRIS ON HIS AIMS IN FOUNDING THE KELMSCOTT PRESS TOGETHER WITH A SHORT...
Price: $90.00 Order nr. 62019
New York, NY: International Typeface Corporation, New York, 1996. large 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages. Copublished with St Bride Printing Library, London. Foreword by Mark Batty. Features information on Dave Farey, Colin Brignall, Mike Daines, Alan Meeks, Freda Sack, and Peter O'Donnell. Afterword by James Mosley. READ MORE about LETRASET & STENCIL CUTTING
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 134987
Charlottesville(VA): The Book Arts Press, University of VA, 1998. 8vo. stapled, stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. 48 pages. An Exhibition from the Collection of Calvin P. Otto on Display in the Rotunda of the University of Virginia. Most of the design effort for the exteriors of trade books now goes into dust jackets or wrappers, but in the 19th century publisher's cloth was a new medium with aesthetic possibilities: special grains and textures, blind-..... READ MORE about ONLY IN CLOTH, PUBLISHERS' BOOKBINDINGS 1830-1910
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 55089
West Chester, NY: Westchester Chappel, The, 1999 (but 2002). small 8vo. self paper wrappers. A collaboration of works published as 'Chapter 2: The Tread-Not Press Goes to Maine' by the Tread-Not Press for The Westchester Chappel and printed by The Cedar Cliff Press for the Westchester Chappel's book The Joys of Printing Continues.. Spine lightly sunned, else fine condition. The Westchester Chappel was founded by J. Ben Lieberman in 1960 as an effort to give..... READ MORE about A MOVING EXPERIENCE
Price: $70.00 Order nr. 134984
Salfords: The Monotype Corporation, n.d. square 8vo. outer envelope holding four signatures. Signatures devoted to "Composition Rules," "Spacing," "Monotype composing Machines" and "Type Dimensions." Near fine. READ MORE about MONOTYPE' TYPE STUDY LEAFLETS FOR STUDENTS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 56469
N.P. n.p., n.d. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (4) pages printed French fold. "This Keepsake was set by hand in the latest Italic Dante type designed by Giovanni Mardersteig and printed in Verona for the exhibtion THE OFFICINA BODONI at the British Library in London, August-October 1978." With full-page portrait of Mardersteig and a printed quote about the book. Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. READ MORE about GIOVANNI MARDERSTEIG, 8.1.1892 - 27.12.1977
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 87134
