Foster, Agness Greene; Jenkins, Will (Decorations); Nash, J[ohn] H[enry] (Typography Design)Biblio.com
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1909SB2739San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company The Tomoye Press 1909. Hardcover. Very good . Jenkins Will. Reprint sixteenmo size 71 pp. This collection of poems by Agness Greene Foster was printed by the Tomoye Press an imprint associated with Paul Elder & Company a notable bookstore in San Francisco run by Paul Elder who also published his own books. The Tomoye Press was Elder's collaboration with the eminent typographer and printer John Henry Nash 1871-1947 whose standards of quality were second to none. This volume is a careful execution of Foster's seasonal poetry featuring Nash's excellent typesetting and decorations by Will Jenkins.<br /> <br /> ___DESCRIPTION: Full mauve paper with pink lettering and decorations on the front board fore- and bottom edges uncut purple endpapers frontispiece a reproduction of an illustration titled "My Lady's Garden" by J. Young Hunter with lettered tissue guard title page with decoration by Will Jenkins in black; sixteenmo size 6 1/4" by 5 1/4" pagination: i-ii iii-vii viii 1-2 3-61 62-63.<br /> <br /> ___CONDITION: Volume is very good plus with a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; boards are clean overall with a few spots of soiling to the rear board some rubbing to the tail of the spine and to the corners and corners are gently bumped sunning to the boards and light soiling to the endpapers. <br /> <br /> ___CITATION: David Mostardi "A Checklist of the Publications of Paul Elder" no. 376. <br /> <br /> ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br /> <br /> ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Paul Elder & Company [The Tomoye Press] hardcover
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
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
1965001932S. l. New Britain Conn.: The Sign of the Jaded Jester 1965. Softcover. Miniature first edition limited to 250 copies this copy #150; 2 in x 4.5 ft; vegetable parchment scroll rolled on a wooden spool with plastic stick-pins on either end; sparkly red wrap and a decorative silk ribbon attached to the beginning of the scroll; housed in a transparent pill bottle with a ruled paper label; thin vertical crack to bottle not affecting its integrity; light age-toning to label; ribbon slightly frayed at the free end; parchment fine; overall in very good to near fine condition. With a rather unique three-color printing Edison Julian I. Miniature Book News # 3: 1966 March. St. Louis Missouri. UNT Digital Library. http://digital.library.unt.edu. Web. January 12 2016 the miniature is a beautiful typographical and artistic example containing amusing and insightful book-related apothegms and epigrams including a personal favorite to wit: "On the subject of repetition.as to whether a speaker should have said 'that' or 'which' he replied: "I consider that that 'that' that that man used is correct." The compiler Walter Blumenthal 1883 - 1969 was a renowned Jewish-American scholar writer and editor. Robert Massmann was a former Director of Library Services at Central Connecticut State University who published numerous miniature books usually in very small editions for more than 4 decades. The Sign of the Jaded Jester paperback
1994008990Folio Society London ©1994 1994. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. xxii 268 14 leaves of plates : illustrations some color facsimiles maps portraits ; 26 cm ; OCLC 30545849 ; Dewey 910.45092 ; LC G246.D17 A3 1994 ; Maps on endpapers. - without slipcase ; pictorial gold and black cloth ; "By Diana Preston Michael Preston · 2010 Preview unavailable Learn more Overview Get the book Other editions More by author Similar books About this edition ISBN: 9781446429181 1446429180 Page count: 512 Published: December 14 2010 Format: ebook Publisher: Transworld Language: English Author: Diana Preston Michael Preston William Dampier 1651-1715 was an English adventurer and pirate who preyed on ships on the Spanish Main. Poor and ill-educated and determined to make his fortune he nonetheless had a passion for exploration and scientific research.Dampier was the first to map the winds and currents of the world's oceans; led the first recorded party of Englishmen to set foot on Australia - 80 years before Cook; wrote about Galapagos wildlife 150 years before Darwin who drew on Dampier's notes in his own work; was the first travel writer ; FINE <br/> <br/> Folio Society, London, ©1994 hardcover
1998022844Glenn Horowitz Bookseller 1998. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by The Photographer. 1st Edition. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Limited to two hundred copies only this is #40 signed and numbered by the photographer in red ink on the rear colophon. Glenn Horowitz Bookseller Hardcover
19780007014Boston & Lexington KY: D. R. Godine 1978. First Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine/issued without. Quartos 57 213 pages quarter brown morocco brown cloth covered boards in matching cloth slipcase. <br/><br/>These are copies XXXII of 50 deluxe copies of printings of 500 and 550 copies. The second title carries the imprint of The Anvil Press 1981. Both volumes were designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at his Stamperia Valdonega Verona Italy. These two companion volumes were later joined by VICTOR HAMMER: AN ARTIST'S TESTAMENT. Sir John Rothenstein was the Director of London's Tate Gallery. His volume includes 19 color plates. Hammer''s volume includes bibliographies of Victor Hammer and his four presses. D. R. Godine 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
2000TYPOGRAP014734Hyphen Press London. 2000. First edition. Edited with introduction commentary bibliography etc by Robert Kinross. Two volumes. Royal octavo. pp 254; 271. Illustrations. Card wrappers. Anthony Froshaug 1920-1984 was a typographer and designer much influenced by the work of Jan Tschichold.Fine in fine printed card slipcase. Hyphen Press, [London]. unknown
193656351Kansas City MO: Western Typesetting Co. 1936. Two vols. 1st. - 4to. 220 pp. Title and section titles printed in colour on thick cover stock typefaces throughout. Black pictorial cloth Western motif cowboy riding typeface on front cover silver Art Deco lettering slight shelfwear; 2nd - 8vo. 81 1 pp. Typeface alphabets throughout self-printed black & silver softcovers minor shelfwear inserted into front pocket of Specimen book NF set. First editions of both these excellent volumes on American type faces produced by the noted company during the 1930s. Western offered Linotype Monotype Ludlow and Hand-set types reproduction proofs long wearing unconditionally guaranteed types and other advantages towards their clients. The type specimens included hear encompass Scripts Gothics Spartans Bodoni Moderns extensive special figures and more. The Type Identifier lists over 400 different faces from ATF Baltimore Bauer Continental Intertype Monotype Ludlow and other sources. Western Typesetting Co., paperback
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
19783115264Los Angeles: Gemini G. E. L. Fine with no dust jacket. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First edition. Fine in white printed wrappers. un-paginated 7 1/4" X 7 1/4' Prospectus for a limited edition of lithographs created by the artist at publisher's workshop. Uncommon ephemeral item. ; 7 1/4" x 7 1/4" . Gemini G. E. L. paperback
196075786V.p.: V.p. 1960-1968. VAN KRIMPEN Jan. On Designing and Devising Type. New York: The Typophiles 1967. First edition. One of 350 copies with the Typophile imprint. Small ocatvo.107 3 colophon and slug pp. Illustrated. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering original typographic dust jacket. Excellent copy of Typophile Chapbook XXXII.ZAPF Hermann. About Alphabets; Some Marginal Notes on Type Design. New York: The Typophiles 1960. First edition and one of 400 copies with the Typophile Imprint. Small octavo. Frontispiece photographic portrait 117 1 colophon pp. Numerous alphabet examples. Publisher's blue cloth with brown morocco gilt spine label. As issued. Excellent copy of Typophile Chapbook XXXVII.MORISON Stanley. Letter Forms Typographic And Scriptorial Two Essays On Their Classification History And Bibliography. London; Nattali & Maurice 1968. First edition. This is Typhophile Capbool but does not beiar their name. Small octavo. 2 161 1 pp. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt spine lettering just jacket to match. An excellent copy of Typopphile Chapook 37. V.p. hardcover
19761491N.Y.; Detroit; Charlottesville: The Hroswhitha Club; Gale Research Co.; Dominion Books 1976;1974;1964. Fine. 1976. Hardcover. 89 pp. incl. index; tall 8vo; patterned paper over boards; gilt stamped burgundy cloth back; printed tan paper dust jacket. 600 copies printed. Short biographical notes on 228 woman printers listed by state. Early American Books: 253 pp. incl. index; 8vo; green cloth. Colonial Printer: 368 pp.; 8vo; green cloth; photographs; facsimiles including on folding. Last two both reprints in fine condition. Fine with protective mylar wrap . The Hroswhitha Club; Gale Research Co.; Dominion Books 1976;1974;1964 hardcover
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
19379872AB1937. Portfolio with 6 prints by The Typophiles. New York 1937. 23 : 155 cm. With 6 booklets. Original cardboard portfolio. Portfolio of the Typophiles for the dinner party given for the british book-designer and author Beatrice Ward how wrote under the pseudonym of Paul Beaujon. There were published only very few portfolios of this type of this then young society of book-designers authors and book-lovers under the leadership of Pau. A. Bennett. They were all designed and produced by and for the members of the club. Contains: Paul A. Bennett Greetings - Paul Beujon Betrice Warde - The battle of the Century Beaujon verses Typophiles - Beatrice L. Warde Printing should be invisible - Stags and a few Dears A Souvenir - Alicis Paul Beaujon A portriat of him. - Very rare. unknown
195512041San Francisco: The Greenwood Press 1955. Very Good. San Francisco: The Greenwood Press 1955. Limited Edition of 500 copies. Octavo. 40 pp. Illustrated wraps. Photographs of a busts of Henry Miller affixed to front and rear endpapers. <br /> <br /> Wraps lightly edgeworn with some toning. Binding is sound. Ownership inscriptions of a Jack Pieri to front and rear alongside photographs. Pages otherwise unmarked. The Greenwood Press unknown
19691635Boston: David R. Godine. Fine. 1969. Softcover. 10 pp.; 8" x 6"; marbled wrappers paper title label. Bookplate of J. G. Dreyfus tipped inside front cover; small ownership label of Albert Sperisen lower inside corner front cover. New Year's keepsake 350 copies printed and bound by hand . David R. Godine paperback
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
191058183New York: The Century Co. 1910. 8vo. xi 3 477 1 pp. With 100’s of text illustrations type specimens diagrams woodcut engravings 1 in colour historiated vignettes decorated initials. Brown publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine gilt & red morocco spine label t.e.g. minor bumping to corners edgewear some rubbing still a VG copy. Second edition of this classic and surprisingly scarce printer’s manual originally issued in 1904 and the third title in De Vinne’s unexcelled series on typography. This work devoted to mechanical methods of book composition encompasses chapters on equipment composition of books composing & printing mathematics and music books foreign languages such as Greek Hebrew & German stone work and more. De Vinne 1828-1914 was often designated the “Dean of American Printers†founded the Grolier Club collaborated with Robert Hoe to advance fine printing and presses and embraced the concept of the book as objet d’art. The Century Co., 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
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
1938240138Highland Park IL: The Elm Press 1938 . First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo 29 2 pp. two-tone cloth some small splotchy spots on some pages inked date on endpaper <br/><br/>In 1902 after only two books and a few pamphlets Millard gave the press and type to Jane Addams' Hull House. Ransom PRIVATE PRESSES AND THEIR BOOKS p.258 #1. I do not know what press was used to produce this book. Printed in Munder Venezian type on Kelmscott hand made paper with watermark hammer and anvil. John Browere dreamed of a national sculpture gallery and he had a secret process to make life masks of notable Americans including John Adams and James Madison and was accused of nearly smothering Thomas Jefferson in the clayey mask. Inserted photogravure portrait plates. The Elm Press hardcover
1915DEMO005562IEast Aurora: Roycrofters 1915. Author's. Hardcover. half light brown morocco . portrait gravures. 4to 312 pages half brown embossed pigskin marbled boards raised bands lacks lowest panel of spine. <br/><br/>Limited to 378 numbered copies signed by Elbert Hubbard II in the aftermath of his parents' deaths on "The Lusitania". McKenna 230 . The Old Philistine's selected essays including "The Titanic" -how ironic! "John Burroughs" "The Ex-Libris Collector" "A Message to Garcia" "The Book of Job" "The Journal of Koheleth" etc. With portrait gravures. Roycrofters hardcover
1957mon0003977603Little Brown & Co. 1957T. hardcover. Good. 3.2300 9.7600 7.5600. Little Brown & Co. hardcover
