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1925ref. 155743Chicago: 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
1935ref. 23404London: 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
1953ref. 7011London: Privately Printed 1953. First Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies. 16mo; quarter linen over printed paper boards; original glassine unprinted jacket; 59pp; 10 gravure plates of Gill's friezes for the Archaeological Museum of Jerusalem commissioned in 1934. Hint of sunning to upper board edges else Fine in original glassine. GILL Bibliography 54a. Privately Printed unknown books
1978ref. 108152Calendar. San Francisco: Two Windows Press and JPP Graphic Arts Center 1978. Calendar 12 x 17 1/8” cover printed in black and red four color lithographs terminal ads for Hoefer Scientific Instruments with b&w photos. Staple bound as issued; very good. § First and only edition of this finepress calendar featuring a harmonious collection of art and poetry which corresponds to each season of the year. Poetry includes “There” by Howard Nemerov 1975 “Rural Reflections” by Adrienne Rich 1956 “Zone” by A. R. Ammons 1972 and “Light from Above” by Richard Eberhart 1976. Artists include Tomio Kimoshita Nathan Oliveira Andrew Dasburg David Swanson and Earl Stroh. Two Windows Press and JPP Graphic Arts Center unknown books
ref. 123156New York: Herald Book and Job Office 97 Nassau Street 1846. Single sheet folio 492 x 628 mm. Printed on recto only title and three columns of verse surrounded by a highly elaborate border composed of printer's ornaments. Very good with old folds slightly toned two 30 mm closed tears to top margin minor loss to right margin at point of fold no loss of image. Together with single issue of the Sacramento Union: Folio 430 x 585 mm 4pp. Very good lightly toned and foxed with evidence of a former binding along left margin. § A New Year's address to the readers of the New York Herald reviewing the events of 1845 in enthusiastic verse the broadsheet is notable for an extraordinarily elaborate decorative border composed primarily of printer's ornaments. The review runs through the highlights of 1845's local national and international events among them the Great Fire of New York the election of Polk and the Irish Potato Famine. Accompanying the broadside is a contemporaneous issue of the Sacramento Union which on its back page bears a similar New Year's address with border composed of printer's ornaments. It is interesting to compare the two both for the news reviewed and for the typographic resources available to the East and West coast printers. Both addresses refer to the imminent statehood of Texas and Oregon; the Sacramento Union alone spends several lines decrying the issue of slavery. Herald Book and Job Office unknown books
1980ref. 25332San Francisco CA: Scenic Road Press 1980. Small broadside keepsake printed at the Scenic Road Press for members of the Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs on the occasion of their Joint Meeting in 1980; one of 200 printed. A letter of February 24 1887 from William Morris to 'My dear Smith' noticing his indignation that he'd been sent by Smith to visit a woman he'd thought to be a potential client who actually wanted him instead to look at her designs. Approx. 4 1/2" x 7" size; printed black in a Kelmscott-style type on quality paper stock; with the original plain paper envelope; slight wear; in very good condition. First Edition. Broadside. Very Good. Scenic Road Press books
1946ref. 25474Woodstock 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
1949ref. 25476Woodstock 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
1935ref. 18058New 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
1992ref. 1342384Tokyo: Graphic-sha Publishing Co 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto; First edition; VG/VG; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine white with gold print; DJ is clean and bright; Boards in glossy white paper clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; Text in Japanese and English; 247 pages illustrated color. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. 1342384. FP New Rockville Stock. Graphic-sha Publishing Co hardcover books
1927ref. 293435Chicago: 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
1992ref. 25341California US: The Zamorano Club 1992. Keepsake ".meant as a companion piece to The Zamorano Club Programs 1928 - 1991 which was issued in 1992 to commemorate the joint meeting of Roxburghe-Zamorano at San Francisco." Within the cover is the tipped-in pamphlet-announcement a simple folder with no text of The Treachery of Recollection talk of Professor Daniel Aaron of Smith College speaking at the Zamorano Club Wednesday March 3 1965; the keepsake-cover approx. 8 1/2" x 11" size; printed in red & black on quality paper stock; light wear; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. The Zamorano Club paperback books
1955ref. 19947New 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. Museum Books hardcover books
ref. 4198GERMAN TYPOGRAPHY DER DRUCKER ERNST ENGEL UND DIE OFFENBACHER SCHULE. N.P.: Freunde des Klingspor-Museums 1966. 4to. Wrappers. 45 3 pages. First edition. An illustrated study of the typographic movement that sprang from Offenbach a Main. Spine sunned edges of paper browned. Not much written on this subjec. unknown books
1873ref. 26237New York NY: Not Published 1873. A folding announcement for the wedding at the Methodist Episcopal Church in NY of this prominent Baltimore MD physician and his fiancee. Elaborately engraved invitation copper-plate style in black on polished paper. On the opposite side of the text is an embossed stylized coat-of-arms. Approx. 5 1/4" x 6 1/2" size; simple folded paper format; some offsetting to the printing on the embossment side. Light wear in very good condition. Ephemera. Soft Cover. Very Good. Not Published paperback books
1909ref. SB2739San 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. ___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. ___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. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___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
1982ref. 25267San 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
ref. 24697New York NY: Lettra Graphcis Inc. Poster with type face specimens printed black on chrome-finish paper stock; with additional information on availability of the styles. Not dated circa 1980. Approx. 17 1/2" x 23" size; old mounting holes at top corners some edge-crinkling & creasing; in very good condition. . Typography. Not Bound. Very Good. Lettra Graphcis Inc. Paperback books
1910ref. 254380East Aurora NY: Roycroft Press Roycrofters 1910. Miriam Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Signed by Hubbard on the first blank. Full bound in limp leather with green stamped grain in holly-patterned slipcase with some loss to one panel else with light shelfwear; previous owner name embossed in gold on the lower edge of the front cover; internally this is an exceptionally bright copy with portraits of each subject preceding the section; digital images can be made available upon request. Very Good binding. Roycroft Press] Roycrofters unknown books
1964ref. 28328New 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
1988ref. 25327San Francisco California: Scenic Road Press 1988. Folding keepsake printed at the Scenic Road Press for members of the Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs on the occasion of their Joint Meeting in San Francisco in September 1988; one of 150 printed. A letter of November 3 1879 from William Morris to Ruskin noticing the indignation in England at the proposed restoration of St. Marks in Venice. Approx. 6" x 9 3/4" size; printed black and white on quality paper stock; slight wear; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Scenic Road Press paperback books
1985ref. 24920New 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
ref. 008203New York: H. P. Kraus. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -/Very Good -. Oversized clothbound book in cello wrapper. Subtitled The Cradle of Printing Part II with 14 color plates 86 halftones and line cuts. Some soiling to covers. Last few pages sticking at leading top corner. Original cellophane wrapper somewhat tattered. Reference book on typography. H. P. Kraus hardcover books
1913ref. 254377East Aurora NY: Roycroft Press Roycrofters 1913. Miriam Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Signed by Hubbard on the first blank. Full bound in limp leather with green stamped grain in holly-patterned slipcase with light shelfwear; a bit of wear at the head of the spine; previous owner name embossed in gold on the lower edge of the front cover; internally this is an exceptionally bright copy with portraits of each subject preceding the section; digital images can be made available upon request. Very Good binding. Roycroft Press] Roycrofters unknown books
1907ref. 230323East 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
