Stone Typeface Family. [Poster].
Poster created for Adobe Systems, Mountain View, California, 1987. 6-color, silkscreened by Rob Day. 33" x 14". Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Lance Hidy. Portrait of Sumner Stone. New. More
Poster created for Adobe Systems, Mountain View, California, 1987. 6-color, silkscreened by Rob Day. 33" x 14". Limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Lance Hidy. Portrait of Sumner Stone. New. More
New York: The Inkwell Press, 1980, Limited to 500 copies. octavo, cloth. 153pp. The Inkwell Press, Privately Printed for Friends of Hermann Puterschein at The Inkwell Press. Besides tributes to Dwiggins by Dorothy Abbe, Warren Chappell, Dwight Agner, Paul Shaw, and others, there is reprinted a letter by Dwiggins to..... More
Syracuse: School of Journalism Syracuse University, 1936, First Edition, one of 1,000 copies. large octavo, printed tan wrappers, tied. School of Journalism Syracuse University, Watermark portrait of Goudy on front and back free endpapers. Foreword by Howard Coggeshall. Faint shadow at edge of wrappers, bottom and fore-edge, else very fine..... More
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1970, First Edition. octavo, brown cloth and black cloth in dust jacket. xviii, 244, xv pp. Alfred A Knopf, A systematic attempt to make plain the evolution, impact and importance of the printed work, it is not a history of printing but rather an effort..... More
London: Faber and Faber, (1952), Revised and enlarged by A. F. Johnson. quarto, cloth. (xiv), 400pp. Faber and Faber, With Notes Historical and Bibliographical on the Rise and Progress of English Typography. First published in 1887, Johnson evaluates Reed's classic history for those chapters that remain unchanged and adds valuable..... More
New York: The Typophiles, 1946, First Edition, one of 400 numbered copies for The Typophiles. duodecimo, brick red buckran. (xii), (152)pp. The Typophiles, Typophile Chap Book No. XV. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal. Printed at The Spiral Press, New York. Illustrated with photographs and numerous Bruce Roger's marks. More
Washington: Library of Congress, 1991, First Edition. quarto, cloth with printed paper spine label. (xxxvi), 428pp. Library of Congress, Includes a tribute by William Matheson, "Lessing J. Rosenwald: 'A Splendidly Generous Man'". This volume celebrates the 100th anniversary of Rosenwald's birth with 100 essays by noted scholars and historians. Eleven..... More
Brooklyn: Intertype Company, (1970), large octavo, flexible boards. 92 pp. Intertype Company, Title and publication date penned on paper and taped to spine. Contents clean and unmarked. More
New York: Continental Typefounders Association, Inc., circa 1930, 5 1/2" x 7 1/2" one sheet folded once to form (4) pp. Continental Typefounders Association, Inc., Salmon color heavy stock printed in black and silver. An announcement from Melbert Cary, "to tell you that I am starting on my regular round..... More
London: Cassell & Co., (1953), First Edition, Limited to 1,000 numbered copies. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. T.e.g. xv, (224) pp. Cassell & Co., Printed in Eric Gill's Perpetua type at the University Press, Cambridge. Foreword by Walter Shewring. "A Record of All Eric Gill's Writings & Illustrations with a...... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 2013, First Edition. octavo, boards and cloth. 216 pp. David R. Godine, The book and type designer Frederic Warde is remembered today chiefly for his collaboration with Stanley Morison, for producing the singular typeface Arrighi, and for being, briefly, the husband of Beatrice, Monotype's charismatic publicity..... More
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, (1996), First Edition. octavo, maroon cloth. (xii), 288 pp. University of Massachusetts Press, Foreword by Michael Winship. This collection takes as its point of departure the proposition that one can, in fact, tell a book by its cover. The contributors examine the ways in which..... More
(New York): American Printing History Association, (1998), First Edition, one of 600 copies printed. octavo, blue cloth. 176, (4) pages plus 38 plates. American Printing History Association, Designed by Jerry Kelly and printed letterpress, with 38 plates by offset lithography, at the Stinehour Press. A fascinating survey of American "private..... More
Rochester: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2005, First Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. (x), (70)pp. RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, As printing from movable type was perfected in the fifteenth century, the mysteries of its practice were guarded by a privileged few. The rapid spread of the new art depended on..... More
London: British Library, 2004, First Edition, wrappers issue. large quarto, pictorial wrappers. 1,152 pp. British Library, An encyclopedic examination of early printing techniques, from the early fifteenth-century wooden presses, to their culmination with the nineteenth- century iron presses. Gabriel Rummonds, one of the most celebrated fine press printers of the..... More
Arnheim: van Loghum Slaterus, 1966, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 415 pp. van Loghum Slaterus, Text in Dutch. Contents include: I The resources. (intaglio printing, planographic printing, letter and its shapes, letterpress printing, etc.). II The goal. (proportions of the book, proofs, co-productions and books on foreign..... More
Typefoundry Asterdam, (1956), quarto, printed wrappers, stapled. (20) pp. Typefoundry Asterdam, The last page consists of an In Memoriam of the font designer, Walter H. McKay, who died a few days after the introduction of Columbia. The back pocket holds eight samples using Columbia typeface. Very fine. More
New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1970, First Edition. octavo, brown and black cloth in dust jacket. xviii, 244, xv pp. Alfred A Knopf, A systematic attempt to make plain the evolution, impact and importance of the printed work, it is not a history of printing but rather an effort "to..... More
Boston: David R. Godine [et. al.], (1976), First printing of this edition. oblong small octavo, brown cloth in original acetate wrapper. unpaginated [75] pp. David R. Godine [et. al.], With a Memoir by Fritz Kredel and a Preface by Warren Chappell. A facsimile of the 24 alphabets in Das ABC..... More
New York: Delano Greenidge Editions, (2002), First Edition. folio, boards in dust jacket. 388 pp. Delano Greenidge Editions, A chronicle defining the contributions to the history of twentieth-century page design by artists, architects, filmmakers and designers who participated in the major art movements of the age: Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dadism..... More
(London): Allen Lane, (2010), First Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. 255 pp. Allen Lane, Looking back at seventy years of Puffin paperbacks, Phil Baines charts the development of Puffin and the role of illustrators and designers in creating and defining the identity of the Puffin list from the very first picture..... More
Fine Press Book Association, 2004, First Edition. quarto, plain heavy paper wrappers in printed dust wrapper. (80) pp. Fine Press Book Association, Aimed to be a "support group" for fine presses, this journal presents lists of recent publications and interesting articles and book reviews. Illustrated. With articles by Simon Brett..... More
Fine Press Book Association, 2005, First Edition. quarto, plain heavy paper wrappers in printed dust wrapper. 60 pp. Fine Press Book Association, Aimed to be a "support group" for fine presses, this journal presents lists of recent publications and interesting articles and book reviews. Illustrated. With articles by Simon Brett..... More
Fine Press Book Association, 2006, First Edition. quarto, plain heavy paper wrappers in printed dust wrapper. 72 pp. Fine Press Book Association, Aimed to be a "support group" for fine presses, this journal presents lists of recent publications and interesting articles and book reviews. Illustrated. With articles by Simon Brett..... More
Fine Press Book Association, 2006, First Edition. quarto, plain heavy paper wrappers in printed dust wrapper. 72 pp. Fine Press Book Association, Aimed to be a "support group" for fine presses, this journal presents lists of recent publications and interesting articles and book reviews. Illustrated. With articles by Crispen Elsted..... More