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19318949New York: Bauer Type Foundry 1931. 3 volumes of specimens of Weiss types bound together. Illustrated with numerous specimens of Weiss types available through the Bauer Type Foundry. 4to. each part sewn in original printed paper wrappers string bound into blue cloth-backed grey paper covered boards printed title label to upper cover. A very good set of specimens of the German Weiss types. Bauer Type Foundry hardcover
19711231206.23<p>Philadelphia College of Art 1971. Hardcover. As New. 8vo hardcover. No dj grey cloth. Near fine condition. Covers and contents clean unworn no marking or writing. Binding square and tight.</p> Philadelphia College of Art hardcover
1988biblio290<p>1st American Edition</p> Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardcover
1974111022736United States of America: Theater of the Universt Inc. 1974. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Oblong. Black front embossed cover with gilt title lower front. Secure binding with clean pages. Color illustrated book about the Bible. About 14 x 11-1/4 with 95 pages. Scarce!. Theater of the Universt, Inc. Hardcover
1913023906San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company 1913. Second Edition stated . Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. 9 1/2" Tall. 117 Pp. Peach Cloth With Darker Verticl Ribs Gilt. Book Is Near Fine Trace Of Wear Gilt Brilliant Previous Owner's Inscription Dated 1924 From Tolita T Hicks To Her Spouse Hobart. Dj Has No Wear Except For Nearly Invisible Straight Line Split Along Front Spine Edge 1/8" To 1/4" Deep Chipping At Top Of Spine 1/4" Chipping At Upper Tips And Tiny Losses At Other Corners. This 906 First Edition Had Typography And Design Of Book And Dj By Harry Nash Black Cloth Spine With Decorated And Lettered Boards; This Second Printing 1913 Omits The Nash Typography And Design For The Front Coverand Dj And Is Bound Entirely In Cloth But They Otherwise Have Identical Content. <br/> <br/> Paul Elder and Company hardcover
19548753Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press For the Friends of the UCLA Library. Good. 1954. Softcover. 26 pp.; 8vo; printed stapled blue wrappers. Scuff to front cover; stip of light tanning across front endpaper; ownership ticket of Ed Ainsworth affixed to lower edge inside front cover. The Botica General . . . was one of twelve twelve books printed by the Zamorano press during its twelve years of service to the Mexican Government. . The Ward Ritchie Press For the Friends of the UCLA Library paperback
195756526Washington D.C.: United States Government Printing Office 1957. 4to. xxii 201 1 pp. Printing layout diagrams throughout. Black pebbled cloth gilt lettering & lozenge illust. of printing press on front cover red comb binding as issued minor dustsoiling edgewear still VG copy. Second edition revised & expanded of this work designed to meet production problems of the US Government Printing Office composed of a signature size chart and series of face-up impositions. It does note that not every possible folding imposition is contained but those dummies can be inserted or laid-in to this work as necessary. United States Government Printing Office, hardcover
194063235Boston: Technical Composition Company 1940. Quarto. Tan linen hardcover; 386pp. Small tear to upper margin of first two preliminary leaves else Fine and unmarked. A specimen book containing "Linotype and Monotype faces suitable for book work and available to customers of the Technical Composition Company. There is illustrated also a selection of foundry type for title pages and special work" from Foreword. Technical Composition Company unknown
1957248556Garden City N.Y.: Doubleday Garden City January 1957. First Edition. Mass Market PaperBack . Very Good. 16mo. Four & 1/8th-inches x Seven & 1/8th-inches; Darkening of spine & margins.Dark stain back cover panel and small surface tear bottom edge of same panel. Rubbing and another small stain front cover panel. Includes 'A long excerpt from: Lolita.' and 'On a book entitle Lolita -- Vladimir Nabokov'; also preface to Lolita by F.W. Dupree. Darkened/dust stained top textblock edge.308 pages & four page list of Anchor titles. Doubleday, Garden City paperback
19810008356Cincinnati OH: Ye Olde Printery / Oak Knoll 1981. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good/issued without. 12mo 29 38 18 pages clothbacked marbled paper <br/><br/>This is the collected edition one of only 500 copies of these books previously printed in smaller editions by printing historian and printer Ralph Green at his printery. Presentation Copy inscribed to Prentiss Smith in 1981. who is acknowledged in the Preface to this edition. With a promotional piece on this book to Prentiss Smith laid in as is a bookplate from Ralph Green. Ye Olde Printery / Oak Knoll hardcover
19781461Boston: David R. Godine 1978. 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. 57 pp. incl. text & list of plates followed by 26 color plates divided into 3 sections: Portraits Biblical and Mythological Paintings and The Kolbsheim Chapel; 4to; gold cloth in slipcase. Fine condition in like slipcase. First Edition no. 258 of 500 copies. . David R. Godine [1978] hardcover
193528143New York: Harcourt Brace and Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1935. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A near fine first printing of the first edition there is some fading on the paste downs and some shelf life indications around the spine. Tne book has a signature on the first loose page from a previous owner perhaps along with some numbers there is a small christmas tag that could have been used for a bookmark for years expressing this could have been a gift. This book is housed in a near fine dust jacket there are tears to the edges and discoloration but is protected by a plastic clear dust jacke; ; B&W maps; 8vo; 311 pages . Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
193518058New York City NY: Heller-Edwards Typography 1935. Stiff wraps. Good. Publishers binding with metal spine panel black painted with some rusting and limp leatherette boards with "Heller Edwards Typography" and emblem on front cover faded. Included in this binding is first the "Supplement to the Heller-Edwards Type Specimen Book October 15 1935" 12 pages unnumbered a "Type Area Calculator" working with sliding insert insect damage to surface soiling and the main catalogue 144 leaves most one-sided each with a different typeface plus additions 56A 94A 129A 139A 139B. Last leaf is "Trade Customs". Last few pages of the main catalogue are bent with some edge tearing upper right corner and last page has some insect damage. A useful reference for this firm. Stiff wraps. Heller-Edwards Typography unknown
1906047537San Francisco / New York City: Paul Elder / Tomye Press 1906. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Plates Decorations. Vii 83 Pp. Brown Ribbed Cloth Lettered In Gilt. Brown Paper Printed In Red And Black. Near Fine Gilt Brilliant. Frontispiece Present But Detached And With 3/4" X 1/4" Chip At Lower Right Easily Re-Atached And Its Tissue Guard Foxed Zand With Two Small Chips And Partly Detached Along Spine Edge. Dust Jacket With Lettering In Brown Reproducing The Gilt Lettering On The Binding; Wear Tears And Very Small Losses At Corners But No Loss Of Lettering. <br/> <br/> Paul Elder / Tomye Press hardcover
196211833Piedmont: Nova Press. Very Good. 1962. Softcover. Tanning to edges with a spot of darker toning at front spine edge and a brown speck back cover. ; Printed saddle-stich gray wrappers. Title page bordered with decorative leaves in red; red initial on first paragraph. "A moderate number of copies run off on the ancient platen press for the friends of Wm. FP. Barlow Jr. Or the friends of Wm. P. Barlow Jr. This is the ninth annual Christmas production of The Nova Press ." Colophon. Fragment of an envelope with the printed return address for Wm. P. Barlow Jr. 105 Nova Drive Piedmont 10 California laid in. POSTER: 15" x 10.5"; printed by The Clinker Press Andre Chaves Printer 2005; on gold foil paper. Fine rolled and housed in tube. ; 32mo 4" - 5" tall; 15 pages; Book Collecting: 22 pp. 8vo stapled green wrappers; publishe by the LIbrary of Congress 1984. A lecture delivered at the Library of Congress 1983. Fine condition. . (Nova Press) paperback
19744082Portland Oregon : Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company 1974 1974. 1st Edition 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9th printing ; iv 186 pp. ; color illustrations ; 36 cm. ; ISBN: 0912856149; 9780912856148 LCCN: 74-75125 ; OCLC: 1009777 ; LC: F797; Dewey: 917.89/03/50222 ; grey and black cloth with gold lettering in color photographic dustjacket ; foxing to inside of dustjacket ; slight soiling and a small spot on dustjacket ; a small tear to bottom of dustjacket spine ; foxing at bottom of flyleaf ; "Muench has been photographing America for more than 30 years. ; Tony Hillerman was born in Sacred Heart Oklahoma on May 27 1925. He attended Oklahoma A & M College and the University of Oklahoma. During World War II he enlisted in the Army and was awarded the Silver Star the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart after being severely injured during a raid behind German lines. As a journalist he has worked for newspapers in Oklahoma and for UPI. He has been a political reporter in Santa Fe a professor of journalism and chair of the journalism department at the University of New Mexico and assistant to the president of that university. The American Southwest and its landscape and peoples particularly the Navajo are the focus for many of his mysteries. " ; VG/VG <br/> <br/> Portland, Oregon : Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company, 1974 hardcover
1948051894Alfred A. Knopf 1948. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 235 Pp. Tan Cloth Stamped In Brown. First Edition Stated. Very Near Fine. Dust Jacket Price Clipped With Publisher's Stamped $2.75 Net Price Light Wear A Few Short Tears At Edges Some Fading To Spine Panel. <br/> <br/> Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
1957181Milan: Silvana 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. 4to 218 pages cloth; tears to dj one chip at rear; lacks slipcase. <br/><br/>Quadri-lingual text of the work of this architecturally-trained designer of graphic designs and industrial exhibitions. Fully illustrated. Silvana hardcover
19015016East Aurora NY: Roycrofters 1901. First edition thus. Softcover. Fine. 8vo brown suede satin endpapers: remarkably fresh condition <br/><br/>Hand-colored title-page and initial letters. Separate appearance from the English Men of Letters series. McKenna 62. Roycrofters paperback
1965BOOKS053709INYC: Caroline E. McElveen 1965. PB. very good birchwood veneer covers softcover. Contents include: Courage!; The Widest Sea; Simple Arithmetic; Ultimatum; One of Two; He and She; Reality; A Good Life; Hierarchy; "Know Thyself"; Advice to the Young; "The Boy is Father of the Man"; New England Sunday; Civilization; Campfire; Green Granite. Caroline E. McElveen unknown
19866969Los Angeles: The Chappel. Fine. 1986. Limited Edition. Softcover. Six printed items enclosed in printed folded 'Table of Contents' without box. Including: THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS PRINTERS 12 woodcuts by Herschel Logan reprinted by Jack Conway on 4 3/8" x 4 6/8" cards with text on verso in original envelope. WHAT IS TYPE by O. A. Owen reprinted by Richard Hoffman in a booklet; 12mo; green card wraps. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO YES PLEASE by Ernest Linder on a printed card. A PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR by Edgar Guest reprinted by Ethan Lipton in a small booklet. TOM PARKER'S HOT METAL FONTS 25" x 4.5" printed sheet laminated and folded into 4 parts. WELL PRINTED BOOKS by George Bernard Shaw reprinted on a card by Clyde Stoneman. . The Chappel paperback
1997008269New York : Monacelli Press 1997 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 261 pages : color illustrations color maps ; 32 cm ; ISBN: 1885254571; 9781885254573 LCCN: 97-18503 ; LC: NA7755; Dewey: 728.8/2/094562 ; OCLC: 222392275 ; red cloth with gold lettering in color photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Roman villas and gardens: The Campagna of Lazio -- Hadrian's Villa: Tivoli -- Villa d'Este: Tivoli -- Palazzo Farnese: Caprarola -- Villa Lante: Bagnaia -- Villa Orsini: Bomarzo -- Fonte Papacqua: Soriano nel Cimino -- Castello Ruspoli: Vignanello -- Palazzo Odescalchi: Bassano Romano -- Villa Aldobrandini: Frascati -- Villa Grazioli: Frascati -- Giardino Caetani: Ninfa -- Giardino Portoghesi: Calcata ; FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Monacelli Press, 1997 hardcover
1998x-3540642986Springer Verlag 1998. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 574 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches. Springer Verlag paperback
193275873Munich: Zeitverlag 1932-33. 8 issues of this innovative typographic and advertising journal. Text in German. Issues Nos. 59 to 70/71 a double issue. Lacks no. 62 for a consecutive run. Octavos. Generally about 28 pp. each. Extremely rich in illustrations. Many in color and tipped-in. Issue 61 seems to be entirely comprised of full page reproductions of company logos. Three issues with spines strengthened with cloth tape of various hues. Owner's name on every issue Alice Rosenblatt. Very good copies of this visually entertaining periodical/ Zeitverlag hardcover
194948711Chicago: Society of Typographic Arts 1949. Folio. xx 181 3 pp. Title in red & black numerous facsimile leaves of type fonts illustrations tipped-in facsimiles photo illustrations some leaves printed in red & black others blue & black some rubricated & decorated initials. Brick-red cloth gilt design on front cover gilt lettering on spine still a NF bright copy. First edition of this splendidly printed homage to the famed American type designer lettering artist and graphic designer. Cooper 1879-1940 headed the firm of Bertsch & Cooper who developed the ad campaigns for such companies as Packard Motor Car Company and Anheuser-Busch Breweries at the beginning of the 20th century. This work includes unfinished autobiographical notes by Cooper Notes on Oz by W.A. Dwiggins famed type designer as well as numerous examples of his Cooper Series Typefaces. Society of Typographic Arts, hardcover