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1936ref. 31691New York: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 1936. Hardcover. First Edition. 6 x 9in. 123pp. Bound in full crushed red morocco. Spine with five raised bands and six gilt decorated compartments. Gilt ruling marbled endpapers and dentelles. Initialed by the author Paul Baerwald on the fourth endpaper. A completely singular publication and binding with no other recorded copies of the text itself presented to Paul Baerwald from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee or JDC. In 1932 Baerwald became the Chairman of the JDC and would serve as such through the rise of the Nazi Regime the escape expulsion and attempted extermination of the Jewish people in Europe and the entirety of World War II. He supervised all of the JDC's philanthropic and rescue work throughout this period by sending funds to Europe and elsewhere even heroically risking the organization itself by sending borrowed monies from New York banking institutions. In 1938 he became a member of President Roosevelt's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees to expand the work of the JDC to the largest possible scale. The true humanitarian impact of Baerwald's efforts are inestimable. Most profoundly throughout the 1930s and leading up to the U.S. entry into WWII Baerwald delivered public and private orations informing the American public for the first time as to the persecution of the Jewish people in Europe while passionately advocating for any type of assistance. These speeches make up the text of the present volume and represent the earliest pleas for United States intervention and assistance on behalf of the Jewish people. In 1945 Baerwald was named Honorary Chairman of the JDC where he then instituted policies which aided over half a million refugees to reach Israel. FINE in Near Fine felt lined clamshell case. The book itself is flawless. The slipcase with marginal shelf rubbing of the edges otherwise remains Fine. As pictured. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee hardcover
2008ref. C94189Birkhäuser Architecture. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English. 460 pages; 430 color 620 b/w illustrations. Description: "Adrian Frutiger first came to the design world's attention in the late 1950s with his design of Univers and the numbering concept behind it. A considerable proportion of his output has also been informed by developments in typesetting technology. In the 1970s he set a standard for signage typefaces with his Alphabet Roissy for the Paris-Roissy airport. Slightly reworked this went on to enjoy great success as a body typeface under the name Frutiger. His machine-readable OCR-B which is used on paying-in slips passports credit cards and as ISBN numbers on books has become an official ISO standard. His sans serif typefaces Avenir and Vectora which appeared at the end of the 1980s stand out because of their exceptional readability and have cemented Frutigers reputation as 'Mr Sans Serif'. The Complete Works is based on interviews and conversations with the designer and on comprehensive research by the editors. Its depth and range make it an indispensable reference work. Completed in the year of Adrian Frutiger's 80th birthday it represents as is his wish his legacy to further generations of type designers and typographers." -- with a bonus offer-- - May be EITHER: out of print OOP and extremely rare in this pristine condition; signed by author or contributor; or a first or special edition; inquire for details; The international creation of typefaces after 1950 was decisively influenced by the Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger. His Univers typeface and the machine-readable font OCR-B which was adopted as an ISO standard are milestones as is his type for the Paris airports which set new standards for signage types and evolved into the Frutiger typeface. With his corporate types he helped to define the public profiles of companies such as the Japanese Shiseido line of cosmetics. In all he created some fifty types including Ondine Méridien Avenir and Vectora. Based on conversations with Frutiger himself and on extensive research in France England Germany and Switzerland this publication provides a highly detailed and accurate account of the type designer s artistic development. For the first time all of his types from the design phase to the marketing stage are illustrated and analyzed with reference to the technology and related types. Hitherto unpublished types that were never realized and more than one hundred logos complete the picture. . 2008. 3764385812 . Birkhäuser Architecture hardcover
ref. SDBOX142-VS05292020-26James M. Hansen. Paperback. Very Good. Very good condition with light wear on covers. Looks like an interesting title! James M. Hansen paperback
1928ref. 50278München: Albert Langen 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Good to very good condition. Quarto. 251pp. Original tan cloth with brown lettering on cover and spine in original dustjacket protected by modern mylar. Dedicated to E. H. F. Porsche. Cover and typography by Adolf Meyer Franz Kollmann. Font and typography similar to the Bauhaus book-series. 'Style seen strictly aesthetically demands foremost a consistent uniform character of an object or matter. We know that because we easily detect violations against this rule finding the objects violating it tasteless in bad style;' this is how Kollmann opens his introduction. Therefore Kollmann concludes: "Style is a basic aesthetic demand that is to say that of unity not to be confused with the delight humans take in the decorative. An extensive treatise of industrial architecture and design including factories bridges cranes masts ships airplanes and Zeppelins cars trains machines and their pats. The book is profusely illustrated with 151 b/w reproductions of photographs and some technical drawings. Contains notes on text and pictures and bibliography at rear. Text in German. Dustjacket two inch closed tear at top of front cover three quarter inch at bottom else very light wear along edges. Illustrated Ex-Libris on inside front cover. Minor foxing on endpapers. Albert Langen hardcover
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1868ref. BB0846Eton / London: Ingalton and Drake / Simpkin Marshall 1868. Decorative Cloth. Fine. First Edition of apparently the first field guide to birds to use photographs as illustrations. 8vo: xiv2232pp with four hand-colored and varnished albumen photographs of stuffed birds mounted on heavy card stock. "It was impossible at the time to photograph live birds due to the absence of the telephoto lens and extremely sensitive plates that would permit short exposures." Goldschmidt & Naef Publisher's forest-green pebble-grained cloth spine and upper cover with bird vignettes in gilt spine lettered and ruled in gilt chocolate coated end papers. A Fine tight square copy clean crisp text the photographs vibrant with deep rich colors. Provenance: Book plate of Henry Neville Gladstone third son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone. Binder's ticket of James Burn & Co. Kirby St. to rear paste-down. Gernsheim 436. Truthful Lens 96. Margolis & Moss 24. The author was only age 16 when he published this "contribution to the natural history of two counties" in which Kennedy identified no less than 225 species of birds. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition carefully preserved in archival removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Ingalton and Drake / Simpkin, Marshall unknown
1822ref. BB1085London: Published By R. Ackermann At The Repository Of Arts 101 Strand London; And To Be Had Of All The Booksellers In The United Kingdom 1822. Full Leather. Very Good . First Edition of the "last of the genuine or 'authorized' Syntax books" Abbey first issued in eight monthly parts. Royal 8vo 236 x 1452mm: iv267pagination irregular but text complete1pp with 24 hand-colored aquatints by Thomas Rowlandson. Contemporary straight-grain morocco gilt boards framed in gilt and in blind with leaf-and-flower rolls rebacked with part of original spine and red morocco lettering piece laid down marbled end papers. A Very Good or better copy generally clean and bright with first and final leaves including title page foxed usual offsetting from plates very occasional finger-soiling. Abbey Life 268. Tooley 413. Grolier Rowlandson 48. Martin Hardie 174-75. As early as 1809 the publisher Ackermann had hired Combe to write the letterpress to accompany many of Rowlandson's most successful illustrations including those for the final volume of the "Microcosm of London" and perhaps especially for the illustrations that resulted in the series of comic poetry for which Combe is still most famous and which earned him his nickname Doctor Syntax: The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque and its two sequels 1812 1820 1821 The English Dance of Death 1815 1816 The Dance of Life 1817 and finally The History of Johnny Quae Genus the Little Foundling of the Late Doctor Syntax 1822. "Combining light-hearted satire of William Gilpin's theory of the picturesque in art with a central character modelled on Cervantes' Don Quixote and Henry Fielding's Parson Adams Combe created a lovable eccentric whose misadventures on the road structure the Tour. For over a century the many editions and numerous imitations of the Tour attested to the popularity of Combe's humorous hero." ODNB N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Published By R. Ackermann, At The Repository Of Arts, 101, Strand, London; And To Be Had Of All The Booksellers In The United Ki unknown
1822ref. BB0354London: Printed for Samuel Richards and Co. 3 Grocers'-Hall Court Poultry; and T. Mason & Sons 2 Great Russel Street Bloomsbury 1822. Paper-Covered Boards. Very Good . The "best scandalous chronicle of the day" complete in three volumes. Tooley 12mo: viii319; 321; 326pp with 12 hand-colored plates engraved by Maddocks E. F. Burney and W. Read. Uniformly rebound to style by Fitterer with period marbled paper-covered boards and modern paper labels top edges gilt end papers renewed with laid paper. Bindings pristine; some gatherings foxed in volume I otherwise a very good or better set with only sporadic foxing and offsetting from the plates which are generally fresh and bright. Tooley 283 for 1821 octavo edition. Originally published pseudonymously in 1760 in two volumes. This Johnston's chief work spelled variously Johnston Johnson and Johnstone "appeared in four volumes between 1760 and 1765. The first and second volumes were written during a visit to the earl of Mount-Edgcumbe in Devon and had already gone through three editions before Johnstone was prevailed on to write the concluding two and the whole work was frequently reprinted during the eighteenth century and translated into French. An excoriating satire that won Johnstone respect as a wit but few friends the novel is set roughly during the period of the Seven Years' War 175763 and pretends to reveal political secrets and to expose the private profligacy of many of the well-knownand highly colourfulpublic characters of the time." ODNB N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Printed for Samuel Richards and Co. 3, Grocers'-Hall Court, Poultry; and T. Mason & Sons, 2, Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury unknown
ref. 015681Kalamazoo Michigan: Rarach Press 1989. Hardcover. Fine. No. 30 of 38 copies signed by the artist/publisher Ladislav Hanka. In a multi-textured binding by Jan Sobota stamp-signed on rear doublure covers of sueded calfskin printed with original etchings flat spine of brown catfish leather turn-ins and headbands covered in eel skin beige pigskin doublures covered with original etchings leather hinges. In an encapsulated pigskin slipcase covered with etchings beige linen pull-off spine with brown morocco label. With 16 etchings of flora and fauna by Ladislav Hanka. 333 x 248 mm. 13 1/8 x 9 3/4''. A fine copy. This is a handsomely-produced book arts collaboration celebrating the natural beauty of Kalamazoo County Michigan featuring a memorable binding by Czech master binder Jan Sobota. After studying with Karel Silinger in Pilsen and at the School for Applied Arts in Prague and then working in Switzerland Sobota came to the United States where hespend 15 years mostly working at Southern Methodist University. He returned to Loket Czech Republic in 1997 where he founded the Sobota family bookbinding studio and helped to organize the Society of Czech Bookbinders becoming its first president. He has won numerous awareds for his innovative and often whimsical work which has been exhibited worldwide. The present volume is equal parts inventiveness and elegance. Book artist and publisher Ladislav Hanka b. 1952 earned degrees in biology and zoology before receiving his MFA in printmaking and his background in the natural sciences obviously infuses his art which focuses on the flora and fauna of forest and lakes. This volume's collection of prose and poetry inspired by the natural landscape is enhanced by Hanka's dramatic etchings of twisted bare-limbed trees fossils and insects. The letterpress work was done by Amy Bollinger on heavy handmade paper. Rarach Press hardcover
1965ref. mon0000181694William Clowes & Sons 1965-01-01. Paperback. Good. in x in x in. Ex-Library usual stamps and markings. Hardback/Hardcover. Well read copy with some spine wear but still very useable. EXACT EDITION AND DATE OF PUBLICATION IS UNKNOWN. William Clowes & Sons paperback
1932ref. 39018Paris: Editions du Belier 1932. A PERFECT COPY ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER of this beautifully-illustrated edition of Dante´s Paradiso with art déco typography by François-Louis Schmied. 141 pp. From a total edition of 500 copies this is ONE OF ONLY 54 COPIES ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE PAPER WITH AN EXTRA SUITE OF COSTETTI'S WOOD-ENGRAVINGS PRINTED WITHOUT THE TEXT ON FINE CHINESE PAPER. Laid in is a cordial handwritten letter dated 1932 from Maurice Tahon co-founder with Schmied of Editions du Belier to the original purchaser of this volume. 4to. Sewn in original printed wraps. Suite of wood-engravings loose as issued. FINE AND BRIGHT WITH NO DEFECTS in the original board chemise and slipcase. Editions du Belier paperback
1893ref. 0006882London & Boston: Elkin Mathews / Copeland & Day 1893. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo decorated boards October 1893 Elkin Mathews catalogue at rear tips of spine chipped rebacked with original spine laid down top board bumped front endpaper reattached with archival tape. Ex libris Francis Wilson famed actor and bibliophile. Scarce One of only 500 copies of the first printing of Thompson's first book. Kraus 5 . " Robert Frost took a book off the shelf in the front sitting room and said 'You should have this.' It was the copy of Francis Thompson's POEMS to which Robert made frequent reference over the years in his readings and lectures - Jack Hagstrom in the Dartmouth College Library Bulletin April l1996." Thompson was a lauded poet clearly with the distinction too of being a nominee as Jack The Ripper ! Co-published by Copeland & Day in its first year of operation. Frontispiece and cover design by Laurence Housman. Elkin Mathews / Copeland & Day hardcover
1982ref. Q-0385175426Doubleday & Co. Inc. NY 1982-08-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Doubleday & Co., Inc., NY hardcover
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ref. 14667Printed at the De Vinne Press No. 12 Lafayette Place New York. 1897. 4 47pp. 8vo. In printed wraps. Internally in fair condition on aged paper with slight staining to the corners; in worn and chipped wraps. A handsome production as one might expect from one of the nine founders of the Grolier Club with a two-page introduction followed by a full-page reproduction of the Ascensius printer's device and 47 examples of pages set in various point sizes of Cushing Ancient Roman Jenson Satanick Louis XV and Century Roman. No copy on COPAC six American and one French on WorldCat. Printed at the De Vinne Press, No. 12 Lafayette Place, New York. 1897. paperback
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