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1909SB2739San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company The Tomoye Press 1909. Hardcover. Very good . Jenkins Will. 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 in addition 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 6.25" by 5.25" 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/>___POSTAGE: Â 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 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
198524920New York N.Y.: The International Typeface Corporation 1985. 80 pages; black and white & color illustrated with a very useful index to typefaces employed in the journal. With editorials of typographic interest; a piece on the work of John Baskerville; on Robert Osborn; an article with color illustrations on hot air ballooning; new developments from ITC; the book art forms of Lois Polansky; advertisements in the trade more. Large format approx. 11" x 14 1/2" size printed and illustrated newsprint-weight paper covers. Covers darkened as are all pages within; the color printed sections still bright. Light wear in good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. The International Typeface Corporation paperback books
1998WN43015New York: Black Dog & Leventhal 1998. Original black cloth blind stamped and gray lettering. Many illustrations in full color making a wonderful reference work for the bibliophile and professional. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Trade. Black Dog & Leventhal Hardcover 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
19269625Marlborough-On-Hudson NY: The Village Letter Foundry 1926. Stapled lime green printed wrappers. VG some edgewear & soiling. 34 pp. Frontis type specimens. 11-7/8" x 8 3/8" <br/><br/> The Village Letter Foundry unknown books
19279624NY: Continental Typefounders Association Inc 1927. Stapled green printed wrappers. VG some edgewear/faint 1/2" x 1/4" stain at base of spine fold. 32 pp illustrated sm Folio 8 1/8" x 12 1/4". <br/><br/>Contains the first appearance of some new sizes of Village type 12 e.g. Goudy Modern 36 pt. These new sizes announced on a laid-in lt. brown printed advert sheet 5" x 9". Continental Typefounders Association Inc unknown books
196428328New York: Art Direction Book Company 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Hardbound quarto in dustwrapper. 279 pp. Profusely illustrated in black and white. An important text on typography. Very good condition in photo-illustrated boards in a very good unclipped dustwrapper. Small prior ownership bookplate afixed to the front pastedown. Art Direction Book Company hardcover books
1785EPL107London 1785. Paperback. Near Fine. Printed scripts of Syriac Armenian Arabic Samaritan Gothic Coptic Ethiopic Etruscan Saxon etc. Variations of English Greek and Hebrew and a leaf of floral devices with music and ship imprints on verso. Interesting specimen for those interested in typographic history. Size: 401 x 255mm. <br/><br/> paperback books
198225267San Francisco CA: The Arion Press 1982. The announcement only for this publication; Folding 4 panel-pages; cover with silhouette illustration text in red and black giving the details of the book and its printing. Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4" size; laid-in discount to book dealers card; light wear; clean and in very good condition. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. The Arion Press paperback books
1927293435Chicago: Pascal Covici Publisher 1927. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Signed. Small 4to.; in the publisher's bright blue binding elaborately decorated and titled in gilt; 12 286 pages including Glossary; with cored frontispiece in red pink gold and black; this edition limited to 760 copies numbered and signed by Richard Atawater who wrote the Introduction and by Douglas McMurtrie who designed the type; this is copy #264. The front hinge is cracked exposing the mull but is holding reasonably well.~~. Very Good binding. Pascal Covici, Publisher unknown books
1907230323East Aurora NY: The Society of the Philistines; The Roycroft Printing Shop 1907. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Periodicals bound together June 1907 - November 1907. No pencil or ink markings in texts. Tan suede spine and blue paper-covered boards gilt lettering. Front board slightly loose but holding. Mylar cut to protect boards.; Mylar Cover. near Very Good binding. The Society of the Philistines; The Roycroft Printing Shop unknown books
193523404London: William Heinemann 1935. First Thus. Quarto 28cm.; original cloth-backed boards in drab printed dust jacket; 64pp.; two-toned red and black illus. throughout. Jacket a bit chipped along extremities including two small losses neither approaching text extremities and spine darkened else Near Very Good and sound. Handsomely illustrated edition of a Lawrence short story originally published as The Escape Cock in 1929. ROBERTS A50d. William Heinemann unknown 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
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 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
197428343London: Westerham Press 1974. First edition. Cloth. Fine. Small clothbound quarto in cloth-covered slipcase. 125 pp. A history of this "highly specialised dining club" focused on printing and the graphic arts Illustrated with examples of graphics created by the members over the years. #252 of 500 hand-numbered and SIGNED copies. A fine copy in thick rich brown cloth covers. Issued without dustwrapper and contained in a matching cloth-covered slipcase. Westerham Press unknown 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
196425255New York NY: Royal Typographers Inc. 1964. 227 pages. ". for the first time deals with copy in mass. This is a type book for body copy only.many different type faces.the samples are set in 54 pica 9" measures. The purpose of those extra-long settings is to give you the opportunity to "crop" the type as it will actually be set. To frame it with your hands or paper so you can actually see the "color' of each different type face as it will finally appear in your piece." from the prefatory information. Tipped-on at front endpaper is a presentation slip from the company to John Collins. Volume approx. 8 5/8" x 11" size; two-tone cloth over hardcover boards with illustrated endpapers; in a black cloth-covered cardstock slipcase. Slipcase with some edge tips wear; Light wear to the binding; first text page with old crease; in very good condition. First Printing. Hard Cover in Slipcase. Very Good. Royal Typographers Inc. 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
194025470New Haven Connecticut: William Edwin Rudge Publisher Inc. 1940. The first volume of this graphic arts quarterly issues 1-4 published June 1940 - March 1941. With artistic contributions by John Taylor Arms Georgia O'Keefe Margaret Sommerfeld Edward A. Wilson Boris Artzybasheff Ludwig Bemelmans Warren Chappell Mary Falconer Eric Gill Leslie Gill Paul Landacre Raymond Lufkin Valenti Angelo Fritz Kredel E. McKnight Kauffer Rudolph Ruzicka William Addison Dwiggins and many others. Articles on printmaking wallpaper illustrated books calligraphy the rare book market book reviews reproductions and the collotype process illustrators printing education woodcuts and wood engravings propaganda and the graphic arts: influencing public opinion for national unity and more. The issues approx. 7 1/4" x 10" size; illustrated softcovers; the index a folded sheet. Slight wear; in very good condition; the slipcase and box with wear and chipping rubbed; has protected the issues very well. A very good set of this graphic arts compendium from mid-20th century. . First Edition. Softcovers in Box. Very Good. William Edwin Rudge, Publisher, Inc. hardcover books
194825475Woodstock Vermont: William Edwin Rudge Publisher Inc. 1948. 25475 Art - Design - Typography - 20th Century - Graphic Arts - Print Quarterly. Print Quarterly Journal of the Graphic Arts Volume VI Number 1 1948. Woodstock Vermont: William Edwin Rudge Publisher Inc. 1948. 79 pages 24 pages of advertisements at back. Cover design by Thoreau MacDonald; the issue is illustrated in black and white and occasionally in colors tipped-on plates. Contributions from Imre Reiner George Salter on Book Jacket Designs The Society of Typographic Arts; P.K. Thomajan Karl Kup Ruthven Todd on William Blake's Illuminated Printing Jean-Francois Millet John Taylor Arms Walter Lewis Ray Nash with book reviews graphic arts topics production notes. Laid-in is a Christmas gift suggestion form and the useful Index to Print Volume V 1947-1948 Numbers 1-4. Old rubber stamp of Contempo Advertising Artists Inc. on a few leaves at lower margin. Approx. 7 1/4" x 10" size; brick-orange paper softcovers; Covers with a few tiny chips at corners few small dog-ears at first leaves; contents clean and very good condition. A very good graphic arts compendium from mid-20th century. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. William Edwin Rudge, Publisher, Inc. paperback books
194925476Woodstock Vermont: William Edwin Rudge Publisher Inc. 1949. 68 pages 8 pages of advertisements at back. Cover design by Frank Lieberman; the issue is illustrated in black and white. Contributions from Mary Kingsbury writing on Emily Connor and the Marchbanks Press; Dorothy Miner on Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages & Renaissance; John Taylor Arms Ray Nash with book reviews graphic arts topics production notes. Old rubber stamp of Contempo Advertising Artists Inc. on a few leaves at lower margin. Approx. 7 1/4" x 10" size; illustrated paper softcovers. Binding with a few tiny chips at bottom edge top corner; contents clean and very good condition. A very good graphic arts compendium from mid-20th century. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. William Edwin Rudge, Publisher, Inc. paperback books
194225472New Haven Connecticut: William Edwin Rudge Publisher Inc. 1942. 87 pages; color cover design by Jean Carlu; woodcut frontispiece by J.J. Lankes; the issue is illustrated in black and white including tipped-in plates. Contributions from Henry Watson Kent Amos Stote Cedric Larson Bartram D. Lewis Lawrence C. Wroth Clarence E. Sherman John Taylor Arms Ray Nash Zoltan Haraszti; book reviews graphic arts topics calendar of events. Approx. 7 1/4" x 10" size; typographically illustrated softcovers. Slight wear; in very good condition; excellent graphic arts compendium from mid-20th century. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. William Edwin Rudge, Publisher, Inc. paperback books
194625474Woodstock Vermont: William Edwin Rudge Publisher Inc. 1946. 103 pages; cover design label by William G. Meek; the issue is illustrated in black and white and occasionally in colors. With a tipped-in booklet showing many examples from the AIGA show. Contributions from Carl P. Rollins Edward Colin Dawson William K. Zinsser L.G.A. Schlichting Helmut Lehmann-Haupt John Taylor Arms Karl Kup Ray Nash; with reviews graphic arts topics production notes. Stamp on last leaf of Contempo Advertising Artists Inc. Approx. 7 1/4" x 10" size; black construction-paper softcovers with tipped-on label. Covers chipped contents clean and very good condition. Good graphic arts compendium from mid-20th century. First Edition. Softcover. Good. William Edwin Rudge, Publisher, Inc. paperback books
