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Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Jacket: Near Fine


Price:
$150.00

Kuper, Marijke & Ida van Zijl
Gerrit Th. Rietveld 1888-1964: L'Oeuvre Complet
Utrecht: Centraal Museum, 1992

First edition. Square quarto. 396 pp; profuse b/w & color illustrations. Text in French. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket spine sunned else Near Fine. Published on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition of Rietveld's work in Utrecht, Holland, and which later traveled to both Paris and New York. This catalog provides an overview of both furniture, interiors, graphic design and jewelry. It contains six texts by Rietveld himself, an extensive bibliography and a list of important biographical details. Catalogue raisonne.
Inventory number #014449



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$25.00

Bargiel-Harry, Rejane et al
La Petite Reine: le Velo en Affiches a la Fin du XIXeme: 31 mai-23 septembre 1979 au muse de l'Affiche
Paris: Musee de l'Affiche, 1979

Oblong quarto. Unpaginated, [50] pp, includes 110 images of bicycle posters, in color & b/w illustrations; bibliography. Text in French.. Paperback with bright yellow image on front cover. Near Fine, a tight, unmarked copy, tiny bump to bottom corner.
Inventory number #014339



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$25.00

Jones, Herbert
TYPE IN ACTION: A Manual of Elementary Typographic Lay-out
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1950

Second revised edition. Quarto. 58 pp; full of b/w illustrations. Red cloth with orange dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket is lightly soiled & spine is lightly sunned. This is the revised edition, with many new illustrations.
Inventory number #012538



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Good


Price:
$30.00

Hubbard, Elbert
THE BOOK OF THE ROYCROFTERS
East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, n.d.

n.d. (1900). Octavo. 29 pp; 16 b/w photographic plates with tissue guards. Limp suede covers with gilt titles, yapp edges, top edge gilt. "Compliments of the Philistine" card laid in. Good- to Very good- Water stain to lower edge of covers, also affecting pages 5 through 8, the endpapers (lightly), and the lower margin of the tail piece, but no other water stains and no stains to the plates. Tissue guards lightly toned, front pastedown silk lining has become free from the cover though still attached like an ffep. This is the first Roycrofters catalog, published in 1900. It includes photographs of life at Roycrofters and some of the people who worked there. There are also ads for Roycroft books and auction prices for early 1900 in the rear of the book. A great reference.
Inventory number #012521



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$50.00

Bacheller, Irving
THE STORY OF A PASSION
East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1901

Octavo. 14 pp; hand illuminated in two colors and gold by Emma Straight. Red suede covers with yapp edges and silk doublures. Very good-, small dark stain on spine, edges a little worn mostly around spine ends. Copyright page reads 1899, colophon reads 1901. Signed by Emma Straight on colophon with hand-drawn Roycrofters device.
Inventory number #012519



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$100.00

COLLECTIF
Les Arts et les Techniques Graphiques
Paris: Editions Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1937

Quarto. 88 pp; 24 tipped in plates and samples, 2 samples of textured cardstock and numerous color and b/w illustrations and plates throughout. Text in French. Illustrated paperback. Very good to near fine. Covers lightly soiled with toning to spine; contents clean bright and appear to be complete. Many examples of the printing arts, card stock, maps, fonts and typography, color lithography, samples of book title pages, sheet music, newsprint, articles on decorative bindings, decorators and illustrators and more.
Inventory number #012499



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$50.00

Basile, Adrien
NOTIONS ELEMENTAIRES DE MATHEMATIQUES APPLIQUEES A LA TYPOGRAPHIE
Paris: Bureaux de l'Imprimerie, n.d.

(ca 1904). Octavo. 70 pp; b/w illustrations, figures, and ads. Text in French. Staple bound wraps printed with ads. Very good-. The covers are the same paper as the contents and as such have become a little brittle from age and are starting to split along the spine, small chip to top edge of cover page. Mathematical drawings and illustrated period ads for printing equipment. Rare
Inventory number #012484



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None


Price:
$35.00

Bussinger, John F.
GILDING & THE MAKING OF GOLD LEAF
N.P.: Richard H. Barnes, 1962

Octavo. 37 pp; b/w illustrations; sample of gold leaf under tissue and clear overlay tipped in. Cloth-covered boards with gilt titles, all edges gilt. Very good to near fine with some light wear to covers, light wrinkling to clear overlay. 1/500 copies printed.
Inventory number #012473



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: Very Good


Price:
$50.00

Mercer, Frank A.
MODERN PUBLICITY 1956-57 Volume 26
London: Studio Publications, 1956

Quarto. vii, 180 pp; 120 color & 730 b/w illustrations; indices. Blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; unclipped jacket has a few edge chips, spine ends chipped with old tape repairs on back, small hole near top of spine as well as several tears. This 26th annual issue illustrates the best advertising art from thirty countries in these categories: posters, press advertising, direct mail, letter-heads, show cards, packaging, wine labels, trademarks, and record covers.
Inventory number #012458



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$30.00

Rogers, Bruce
AN ACCOUNT OF THE MAKING OF THE OXFORD LECTERN BIBLE
Philadelphia, PA: Lanston Monotype Machine Company, n.d.

n.d., [1936]. Quarto. 16 pp. Stapled wraps with titles. Very good, light fading to edges of covers. Bruce Rogers explains the process of designing the typography and layout of the Oxford Lectern Bible.
Inventory number #012452



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$50.00

Griffith, C.H.
THE LINOTYPE DEVELOPMENT OF TYPE
NP: Printed for The Annual of Bookmaking, 1938

Octavo. (16) pp. Bound wraps with paper label. Very good. Some edgewear to covers with a couple small closed tears. "This signature was composed and printed for The Annual of Bookmaking in April 1938. The typography by W.A. Dwiggins and Paul Bennett. The decorative material, designed for Linotype by Mr. Dwiggins, is shown here for the first time." [colophon]
Inventory number #012450



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$25.00

Mergenthaler Linotype Co.
THE BIG SCHEME OF SIMPLE OPERATION: A Primer on Linotype Mechanism and Operation
Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Co., 1940

Octavo. 39 pp; illustrated in b/w. Paperback with illustrated covers. Very good.
Inventory number #012428



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$25.00

Eckman, James
WEEK ENDS WITH TOM CLELAND
NY: The Typophiles, 1971

Small octavo. 12 pp; b/w frontispiece. Stiff paperback with illustration pasted on cover. Near Fine. Limited edition of 350 copies. Typophile Monograph No. 125
Inventory number #012422



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$75.00

Dwiggins, W. A. & William Rose Benet
A BAKER'S DOZEN OF EMBLEMS collected from various numbers of The Saturday review of literature issued in 1927 and 1928
Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Co., 1935

Small octavo. Unpaginated [40] pp; monochrome illustrations by W.A. Dwiggins. Paperback with illustrated covers. Very good. Slight sunning to spine and edges, more pronounced on back cover. "Drawings by W.A. Dwiggins ; and verses by William Rose Benet; collected from various numbers of the Saturday review of literature issued in 1927 and 1928; and Electra, a new linotype face from the hand of the said W.A.D."
Inventory number #012417



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine


Price:
$150.00

Cleland, T.M.
PAPER IS PART OF THE PICTURE
West Springfield, MA: Strathmore Paper Company, n.d.

n.d. (1922). Single sided sheet of "Old Stratford Parchment Cover" gatefolded 6 impression stencil print by T.M. Cleland with guide to the colors used in each impression on the back. Strathmore line card laid in. Housed in original mailer. Near fine in soiled and stained mailer.
Inventory number #012416



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$25.00

Bauer Type Foundry, Inc.
BERNHARD TYPES
NY: The Bauer Type Foundry, Inc., n.d.

n.d. (c1936) Octavo. 24 pp; illustrations in monochrome. Paperback. Very good, light rubbing to edges, 16 pages of Bernhard type specimens followed by 6 pages of ads created with the type family.
Inventory number #012410



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$35.00

Mergenthaler Linotype Co.
INSTRUCTIONS TO LINOTYPE OPERATORS AND MACHINISTS
Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Co, n.d.

Octavo. (16) pp; b/w illustrations. Paperback. Instruction manual.
Inventory number #012402



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Good


Price:
$50.00

Mergenthaler Linotype Co.
LINOTYPE Matrices and Slides for Casting Borders, Decorations Rules, Dashes, Braces
Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Co, 1917

Octavo. 100 pp; illustrated throughout with type samples. Paperback. G+ covers worn and splitting, else very good.
Inventory number #012401



Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good


Price:
$75.00

Mergenthaler Linotype Co.
INSTRUCTION BOOK: For the Installation, Operation, and Maintenance of the Linotype Electric Pot
Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Co, 1923

Octavo. 37 pp; illustrated throughout in b/w and with fold-out wiring diagram. Staple bound paperback. VG- covers soiled, staples rusting, endpapers and diagram lightly foxed. Rare.
Inventory number #012400



Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket: None


Price:
$125.00

[ROGERS, Bruce] Tory, Geofroy
CHAMP ROSE: Wherein May Be Discovered the Roman Letters that Were Made by Geofroy Tory and Printed by Him at Paris in His Book Called "Champ Fleury"
New Rochelle, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1933

Octavo. unpaginated; illustrated in red. pages uncut. Very good. light toning to covers. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Signed bookplate of American book editor, William Targ.
Inventory number #012394