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American Type Founders Company, 1931, 9" x 12" (4), (4), (6) pp. American Type Founders Company, Lucian Bernhard’s classic Bernhard Gothic was released by ATF in 1929 and 1930. The Gothic Heavy has two holes punched along the top edge, with folds from mailing; the Gothic Medium has lost a...... More
London: Printing News Limited, Winter, 1958-1959, Vol. I, No. 4. quarto, printed heavy stock wrappers. 72 pp. Printing News Limited, Includes "My Life with Paper" by Dard Hunter and a lengthy In Memoriam for Jan van Krimpen. Light bump to top and bottom of spine, else a fine, clean copy..... 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
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ITC, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, tall octavo, printed wrappers, stapled. (36), (36), (28), (28) pp. ITC, Very fine. More
(London): William Clowes & Sons, no date, circa 1970, small quarto, printed wrappers, stapled. 16 pp. William Clowes & Sons, "An Addition to the Range of the Type Faces Used by William Clowes & Sons Ltd, London and Beccles." With alphabets and examples of pages set in Ehrhardt. Top of..... More
Salfords, England: Monotype Corporation, November, 1972, 8 1/4 x 7 3/4" printed wrappers. 12 pp. Monotype Corporation , "The five type series featured in this issue of the 'Newsletter' are th work of one designer - Hermann Zapf. Fine. More
Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, (1950), large octavo, recased in decorated boards and cloth. (232) pp. Mergenthaler Linotype Company, With the signature of typographer John Schappler on half-title. Fingerprint soiling to some pages. More
approx 1974 - 1988, A few of the quarto size pamphlets have a mildly bumped corner, else all fine and clean. More
New York: Champion Papers, 1978, First Edition. quarto, printed wrappers in original printed envelope. 36 pp. Champion Papers, Promotional piece exhibiting the art of Hermann Zapf. Printed in black and white and in color. Very fine in fine printed envelope. More
Zurich: City-Druck AG, May, 1951, quarto, printed wrappers. 28 pp. City-Druck AG, Text in German. Includes two articles by Jan Tschichold: classification of letterpress fonts and what to consider when buying new fonts. Ten pages of typfe faces with specimens lower case, upper case and numbers. Clean and near fine..... More
London: Trustees British Museum, 1971, First Edition. quarto, wrappers. 64pp. Trustees British Museum, Catalogue of the exhibition held in the King's Library, British Museum, 8 July - 3 October 1971. Illustrated in the text and with 14pp. of plates at end. Wrappers printed overall with the SM monogram design by..... More
[Lunenburg, VT: Stinehour Press, no date], 9" x 15" Stinehour Press, Broadside, printed recto and verso, head to foot. Printed in blue and black listing foundry type, embellised with typographic thoughts from D. B. Upike, Eric Gill and Carl Purington Rollins. A selection of borders is included. Very handsome. Clean..... More
Rochester, NY: Press of the Good Mountain, 1988, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 80pp. Press of the Good Mountain, One of 5000 copies printed. Foreword by Dr. Mark F. Guldin and a preface by Alexander S. Lawson. This work features stipple-drawn portraits and biographies of twenty recipients of RIT's Frederic W...... More
Miami Beach, FL: John S. Carroll, no date, circa 1960, 5 7/8" x 9" pink paper printed in black. John S. Carroll, Advertising broadside for John S. Carroll [typefounder]. "As we announced a while ago, we're off on a new tack, and have already started on several 18th Century types..... More
Rochester, NY: Rochester Institue of Technology, 1960, octavo, printer wrappers. 52 pp. Rochester Institue of Technology, Vol. XX, No. 1. With a list of Goudy Types. Printed in red, maroon, blue and black. Very fine. More
Zurich, Switzerland: Typographische Monatsblätter, December, 1934, quarto, printed wrappers. 387-403 pp. Typographische Monatsblätter , The twelfth issue of 1934. Dime-size chip from upper right corners, a few other very small chips to wrappers. More
(New York: HBI, 2002), First Edition. large quarto, white boards in dust jacket. 288pp. HBI, Typography 23 is the only annual devoted exclusively to typography and presents the finest work in this field from 2001. The 156 winning designs encompass a wide range of categories, including books, magazines, corporate identities..... 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
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1994, Second Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xxii), 286pp. Oak Knoll Press, This edition contains an appendix listing 73 type specimen books unknown at the time of the first edition, more than 10 percent of the former total. TYPE FOUNDRIES contains historical accounts of..... More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina/Hanes Foundation, 1996, First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. 29 pp. University of North Carolina/Hanes Foundation, A lecture delivered in 1989. New, without flaw. More
New York: Watson-Guptill, (1989), First Edition. oblong quarto, boards & cloth in dust jacket. 192pp. Watson-Guptill, Aimed at Graphic designers, this book is designed to train the eye in the qualities of type: the specific characteristics of a face, its relationship to other faces and to space. Chapters include Working..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, (1977), First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. xvi, 250pp. David R. Godine, From the colonial period up until the present day, Blumenthal touches on many of the prominent publishers, printers, and typographers of their time: William Bradford, Benjamin Franklin, "Colonial Women", Isaiah Thomas, De Vinne..... More
New York: Beil, (1982), First Edition. octavo, 153pp. Beil, Printed at The Stinehour Press. For more than fifty years Joseph Blumenthal, the renowned designer-printer, has stimulated concern for the arts of the book in the United States. In this professional autobiography he has written a fascinating account of his life..... More
New York: Abrams, 1990, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 144pp. Abrams, A critical study of this master type designer, who did not draw his first alphabet until he was 30, nor count himself a professional type designer until he was 46. The fiinal chapter includes an annotated list..... 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