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195327791Maple Shade NJ: The Pickering Press 1953. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Stapled printed wrappers. Unpaginated. Quotations from the writings of Beatrice Warde reprinted here to commemorate a visit to the United States by Mrs. Warde during May of 1953. Boldly INITIALED by her on the inside front cover. A slender volume containing examples of typography arts by Bruce Rogers W. A. Dwiggins and others. A near fine example. The Pickering Press paperback books
195519947New York: Museum Books 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Metal spiral bound quarto. Cover design by Ronald Clyne. Unpaginated volume on the history and evolution of letterhead typography. Includes 54 actual examples at rear of volume. Black cloth spine over patterned boards. Boards are worn along the edges. Still a very good clean example with wonderfully designed examples of letterhead typography. Uncommon volume. <br/><br/> Museum Books hardcover books
196619979Geneve: Galerie Motte 1966. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Thick paperbound quarto. 130 numbered pages followed by a Table Des Oeuvres Reproduites. Correct first edition of this extraordinary volume on the influences of modern art movements on the evolution of typography. With essay in French by Jacques Damase and including extensive examples from artists such as Kurt Schwitters Francis Picabia Fernand Leger Man Ray Robert Delaunay Tristan Tzara and Guillaume Apollinaire among many others. Illustrated in color and black and white. Covers worn at edges but a very good copy overall of this uncommon work. Stiff illustrated wrappers. <br/><br/> Galerie Motte paperback books
1925155743Chicago: Robert O. Ballou Publisher 1925. 16mo pp. 1 2-15 16 original orange wrappers printed in black side stapled. First edition. The subject of eight of the fifteen books is typography all written or introduced by Douglas C. McMurtrie. Covers a bit dusty a nearly fine copy. Scarce. No copies located by OCLC#155743 Robert O. Ballou Publisher unknown books
178827482Avgvstae Vindelicorvm Augsberg Germany: Sumnptibus Fratrum Veith Bibliofolarvm 1788. 1st edition Bigmore & Wyman I p. 79. Period drab boards with printed title to spine. Expected wear & staining to binding. PO bookplate over removal evidence of a prior bookplate. Some light foxing & faint discoloration to lower right quadrant of textblock. Withal a Very Good copy. xvi 207 1 pp. Errata last page which a prior owner has implemented via pen & Ink. Untrimmed. Head- & tailpieces. Illustrated at rear with 8 folding copperplate engraved tables of alphabets used by the early printers. 4to: 4 A - 2C4. <br/><br/>This Part I of an eventual 2-part work the second part being published the year following 1789. No copies at auction these last 30 years. Sumnptibus Fratrum Veith, Bibliofolarvm hardcover books
1982WRCLIT83282Cambridge MA: Harvard College/Houghton Library 1982. Printed buff wrappers. About fine. One of 1500 copies of this facsimile edition of Bodoni's first type specimen of 1771 of which 200 were distributed as a keepsake for a reunion tea of the Harvard Class of 1937 given at the Houghton Library 400 were for Friends of the Harvard College Library and 900 were for sale. Concludes with an explanatory note by Eleanor M. Garvey Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts. Harvard College/Houghton Library unknown books
1945WRCLIT78490Bern: Schweizerischen Gutenbergmuseums 1945. 84pp. Gilt cloth. Black & white and color plates. First edition. Text stock tanned otherwise very good in worn dust jacket. Typography and art from the early beginnings of printing to the mid-twentieth century. Schweizerischen Gutenbergmuseums hardcover books
1947WRCLIT34736New York: Kurt H. Volk 1947. Blue cloth. Illustrations. Fifth edition. With a character count rule inserted in pocket at the rear. Very good or better lacking a printed jacket. Kurt H. Volk hardcover books
19317431Praha: Druzstevnà práce Orbis 1931. Octavo 19 x 14 cm. 355 4 pages. Stated fourth printing "Ctvrté vydánÃ" one of five hundred copies printed. The colophon states there were cloth and leather binding issues but does not state the number of each. Originally published in 1919 Sup was one of the first works and I believe the first novel of Emil Vachek journalist playwright and novelist and inventor of the Czech detective story. This later edition was issue in the prestigious and design-wise ground breaking Druzstevnà práce by Orbis. The series was overseen by the great Ladislav Sutnar who also contributed the typographical design for each volume. Fine in full cream-colored calf with gilt decorative design by Josef Kaplicky Czech sculptor generally in a social realist style and father of the significant architect Jan Kaplicky. Signed on a preliminary leaf by the author. OCLC locates only one copy of this issue National Library the Czech Republic and five copies with similar pagination but carrying the Sfinx imprint none of either imprint in the U.S. Druzstevnà práce [Orbis] hardcover books
