Young, Dean
Embryoyo
Book is in excellent condition, as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 105 pages. Signed on title page by the author. Smells a bit of Nag Champa incense.
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Young, Dean
Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
Book is in excellent condition. Very light shelf wear only to covers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Smells a bit of Nag Champa incense.
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Young, Dean
Shock By Shock
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 78 pages. Smells a bit of Nag Champa incense.
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Young, Dean
Fall Higher
Book is in excellent condition, as new in purple cloth with embossed print on cover. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is as-new also. Signed by author on title page. Smells a bit of Nag Champa incense.
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Andersch, Martin
Symbols, Signs and Letters: About Handwriting, Experimenting with Alphabets and the Interpretation of Texts
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding Full cream colored cloth boards show slight wear. Edge wear to scuffed dust jacket. Previous owner's name and ink spot on front endpaper. 256 pages. 8 1/4"w x 12 1/4"h.
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Duffy, Christopher
Fire And Stone: The Science of Fortress Warfare 1660-1860
Book is in excellent condition; as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 207 pages with maps, illustrations, drawings, technical drawings, maps, cross sections. Contents include: Why fortresses were built, Where fortresses were built, How "...", The parts of a fortress, the Service of a fortress, the March of the siege, the great sieges. With 4 appendices. Very detailed account of the subject.
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Hatch, Carolyn
Deco Lalique: Creator to Consumer
Book is in excellent condition with very light shelf wear to covers only, rear endpaper has a 1/2" tear, otherwise as new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 193 pages with photos throughout: b&W interiors, many full page in color of glasses, vases, bowls, figurines, brooches, lamps, as well as advertisements from the era.
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Reps, John W.
The Forgotten Frontier: Urban Planning in the American West Before 1890
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. 170 pages. Full brown cloth boards.
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Designer's Guide to Modern Steels
Ex- institutional library binding. Bright blue and white patterned buckram cloth cover. 8 1/2"w x 11 3/4"h. 107 pages. Crease on page 3 (see photo)
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Beuchamp, Monte
Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World: 16 Graphic Biographies
A new, unread book in excellent condition. 128 pages. 8 5/8"w x 11 1/8"h.
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Print Casebooks 4 1980/81 Edition - Six Volumes in Slipcase
Boxed set of six volumes in slipcase that shows a bit of wear and small tears. All volumes are hardbacks in excellent condition with dust jackets that show slight wear; some with tiny tears. Each book is 8 1/4"w x 10 3/4"h and around 96 pages. The titles are The Best in Annual Reports; The Best in Exhibition Design, The Best in Covers and Posters; The Best in Environmental Graphics; and The Best in Advertising. Please note: This set is missing The Best in Packaging 1980/81 and instead includes The Best in Exhibition Design 1978/79. The set has a bit of a chemical odor - a printshop smell?
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Holiday / Christmas Clip-Art Book Collection - Six Books
This is a set of six clip-art books, one published by North Light Books, the rest by Dover Books.. All books are staple-bound, and range from 32 to 64 pages. The titles are: Christmas Designs; Christmas Borders on Layout Grids; Old-Fashioned Christmas Illustrations; Holiday and Seasonal Borders; Illustrations for Holidays and Special Occasions; and Holidays (North Light Books). Circa 1980's.
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Clip-Art Book Collection - Four Books on Alphabets
This is a set of four clip-art books, three published by Dover Books, one by Graphic Products. All books are staple-bound, and range from 32 to 64 pages. The titles are Party Alphabets; Art Deco Initials; Decorative Letters CD-Rom and Book; and Brushstroke and Free-Style Alphabets. Circa 1980's.
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Frank, Kozik
An Ode to Joy: Posters, Prints and Other Work of Frank Kozik
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 116 pages. 8 5/8"w x 11 1/8"h. Slight edge wear to cover. Pictorial boards.
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Graphic Master: A Workbook of Planning Aids, Reference Guides and Graphic Tools for the Design, Estimating, Preparation and Production of Printing and Print Advertising
Metal comb binding inside black cover. Exterior cover split at spine, but interior comb binding is in very good condition. 10 3/4"w x 11 1/2"h. 25 pages printed on heavy card stock. "Graphics Master is designed for use by people who create, plan, estimate, produce and buy or sell printing, print advertising or related graphic arts services. It contains basic working information essential to each phase of graphic production in one easy-to-use, time-saving volume." Super-cool graphic design book with tabs, fold-outs, vovelles, half-tones, die-cutting and eyeletting.
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Willen, Bruce; Nolen Strals
Lettering & Type Creating Letters & Designing Typefaces
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 130 pages.
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Perrigo, Oscar
Lathe Design Construction and Operation
Book is in excellent condition; new. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Reprint of a earlier publication, heavily illustrated with quality fine line mechanical drawings.
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Fisher, Leonard Everett
Alphabet art: Thirteen ABCs from around the world
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 64 pages. 8 5/8"w x 11 1/4"h. Red cloth spine. Small tears on edge worn dust, price-clipped, jacket. Leonard Everett Fisher has beautifully reproduced thirteen alphabets in use around the world today: "Arabic, Cherokee, Chinese, Cyrillic, Eskimo, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese Sanskrit, Thai, and Tibetan.
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Morris, William
The Ideal Book: Essays and Lectures on the Arts of the Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 134 pages. Photographs and illustrations.
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Tufte, Edward R.
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 158 pages.
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Craig, James
Designing With Type: A Basic Course in Typography
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Metal comb binding. 9 1/2"w x 12 1/4"h. 176 pages.
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Keane, Marc Peter
The Art of Setting Stones: And Other Writings from the Japanese Garden
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior exhibits two instances of highlighting. 154 pages, occasional drawings, with chapters on Boundaries, Cosing the circle, Trees, Layers, Balance, Art of setting stones, Wintergreen.
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Tejaratchi, Sean
A is for Zebra: An Alphabet, Art & Activity Book
Large-format book by the creator of the Crap Hound zine. 12"w x 15"h. Staple-bound.
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Siegenthaler, John
Modern Hydronic Heating: For Residential and Light Commercial Buildings ; with CD
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is highlighted from page one to page 10; and is otherwise clean and free of marking of any kind. 573 pages with CD at back. CD is as-new and in excellent condition. Topics include: Heating System, Heat Transfer, Hydronic Subsystems, Design, Boiler Designs, Gas, Oil, Hot Water, Exhaust Systems, Boiler Efficiency, Emitters, Pumps, Control, Components, Systems, Piping, Fittings, Valves, Fluid Flow, Properties, Circulating, Air Removal, Filling, Purging, Expansion Tanks, Radiant Panels, etc.
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Lehner, Johanna and Ernst
Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, Plants and Trees
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Black cloth spine and light blue cloth covered boards. Dust jacket is tattered. 8 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h. 128 pages. Black and white illustrations with descriptions of plants.
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Barnicoat, John
A Concise History of Posters: 1870-1970
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Age-toned paper. 288 pages; 273 illustrations, including 72 in full color. 5 5/8"w x 8 1/4"h.
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Pan Shou at 80: An Exhibition of Pan Shou's Calligraphy and Poetry
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 88 pages. 8 1/4"w x 11 1/4"h. Exhibition catalog for show at the National Museum Art Gallery in Singapore, February 27 to March 17, 1991.
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Goodwin, David J.
Left Bank of the Hudson: Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 180 pages.
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Lehner, Johanna and Ernst
Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, Plants and Trees
Interior pages clean and umarked and in very good shape. Faded cloth boards and white spots on black cloth spine. Dust jacket is water damaged and tattered. Previous owner's inscription inside. 8 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h. 128 pages. Black and white illustrations with descriptions of plants.
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Clip-Art Book Collection - Six Books
This is a set of six clip-art books, two published by North Light Books, the rest by Dover Books.. All books are staple-bound, and range from 32 to 64 pages. The titles are: Spot Illustrations; Decorative Borders; Starbursts; Old-Fashioned Frames and Borders; Celtic Borders on Layout Grids; and Small Frames and Borders. Circa 1980's.
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Slack, Kenneth E.
In the Wake of the Spray
Book is in excellent condition in bright green cloth boards with sparkles, gilt print at spine, decorative endpapers. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, save some age-toning of top page ends, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows edge wear with small tears. 274 pages with b&w photos, mechanical drawings, tables, charts.
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Kelbaugh, Douglas; Kelbaugh, Douglas S.
Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design (Samuel and Althea Stroum Books xx)
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding.
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Ginzburg, Ralph; Herb Lubalin
Avant Garde #7 (Magazine, March, 1969)
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small tears and wear to cover. Some underlining to about three pages. Yellowing paper. 10 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h. Approx. 60 pages. "Avant Garde was a magazine notable for graphic and logogram design by Herb Lubalin. The magazine had 14 issues and was published from January 1968 to July 1971.....While it could not be termed obscene, but it was filled with creative imagery often caustically critical of American society and government, sexual themes, and (for the time) crude language." [Wikipedia]
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Ginzburg, Ralph; Herb Lubalin
Avant Garde #6 (Magazine, January, 1969)
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small tears and wear to cover. Yellowing paper. 10 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h. Approx. 60 pages. "Avant Garde was a magazine notable for graphic and logogram design by Herb Lubalin. The magazine had 14 issues and was published from January 1968 to July 1971.....While it could not be termed obscene, but it was filled with creative imagery often caustically critical of American society and government, sexual themes, and (for the time) crude language." [Wikipedia]
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Ginzburg, Ralph; Herb Lubalin
Avant Garde #8: Picasso's Erotic Gravures
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small spots and wear to cover. Yellowing paper. 10 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h. Approx. 60 pages. Black and white line drawings, some printed on colored pages. "Avant Garde was a magazine notable for graphic and logogram design by Herb Lubalin. The magazine had 14 issues and was published from January 1968 to July 1971.....While it could not be termed obscene, but it was filled with creative imagery often caustically critical of American society and government, sexual themes, and (for the time) crude language." [Wikipedia]
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Ginzburg, Ralph; Herb Lubalin
Avant Garde #12 (Magazine, May, 1970)
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small tears and wear to cover. Yellowing paper. 10 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h. Approx. 60 pages. "Avant Garde was a magazine notable for graphic and logogram design by Herb Lubalin. The magazine had 14 issues and was published from January 1968 to July 1971.....While it could not be termed obscene, but it was filled with creative imagery often caustically critical of American society and government, sexual themes, and (for the time) crude language." [Wikipedia]
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Ginzburg, Ralph; Herb Lubalin
Avant Garde #8: Picasso's Erotic Gravures
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small spots and wear to cover. Yellowing paper. 10 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h. Approx. 60 pages. Black and white line drawings, some printed on colored pages. "Avant Garde was a magazine notable for graphic and logogram design by Herb Lubalin. The magazine had 14 issues and was published from January 1968 to July 1971.....While it could not be termed obscene, but it was filled with creative imagery often caustically critical of American society and government, sexual themes, and (for the time) crude language." [Wikipedia]
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Ginzburg, Ralph; Herb Lubalin
Avant Garde #8: Picasso's Erotic Gravures
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Small spots and wear to cover. Yellowing paper. 10 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h. Approx. 60 pages. NOTE: This copy is different from others of the same issue as it is lacking the masthead normally printed on the inside of the front cover and the cover is white, rather than tan. The advertisement on the last page is also different, featuring the "Big Offender." Black and white line drawings, some printed on colored pages. "Avant Garde was a magazine notable for graphic and logogram design by Herb Lubalin. The magazine had 14 issues and was published from January 1968 to July 1971.....While it could not be termed obscene, but it was filled with creative imagery often caustically critical of American society and government, sexual themes, and (for the time) crude language." [Wikipedia]
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Morgan, David W.
Whips and Whipmaking, With a Practical Introduction to Braiding,
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full beige cloth boards. 132 pages. Many b&w photos.
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Hockney, David
David Hockney: Poster Art
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full red cloth boards. 10 5/8"w x 14 1/8"h. Approx. 220 pages. Pictorial index.
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Gates, David
Type
Metal spiral binding. 9 7/8"w x 12"h. 208 pages. Typeface reference book organized by style category.
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Triggs, Teal
Type Design: Radical Innovations and Experimentation
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 224 pages. Edge wear to cover.
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Kelvin, George V.
Illustrating for Science: "A Problem-Solving Approach to Rendering Subjects in Biology, Chemistry, Physics , Astronomy, Space Technology, Medicine, Geology and Architecture"
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 8 1/2"w x 11 1/8"h. 192 pages. Previous owner's name inside. Edge wear and tears to dust jacket. Many color illustrations.
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Heller, Steven; Karen Pomeroy
Design Literacy: Understanding Graphic Design
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 6 5/8"w x 9 3/4"h. 278 pages.
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Meggs, Philip B.
A History of Graphic Design, Second Edition
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 8 3/4"w x 11 1/4"h. 510 pages.
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Harper, Laurel
Provocative Graphics: The Power of the Unexpected in Graphic Design
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear to dust jacket. 9 1/4"w x 11 1/4"h. 192 pages.
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Nastiuk, Virginia
Personal Pattern Development
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Plastic comb binding; wear to cover. 9 1/4"w x 9 1/2"h. 152 pages.
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Mori, Osamu; Atsuo Tsuruoka (translator)
Typical Japanese Gardens
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Front free endpaper has been torn out. 7 1/4"w x 10 1/4"h. 162 pages. Black-and-white and color photographs.
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Grayson, Stan
Dinghy Book, The
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 256 pages with chapters on Design types and performance, Flat -bottomed dinghies of John Atkin, Rigs, Oars and Outboards, Production construction, Big and small dinghy builders, Inflatables, etc. Heavily illustrated with mechanical diagrams, plans, blueprints, charts, tables, b&w photos.
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Morse, John D.
Prints in and of America to 1850: Winterthur Conference Report, 1970
Light wear and spots to cover; interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 356 pages. Black and white illustrations. Sixteenth Annual Winterthur Conference, 1970.
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