Asymmetric Typography by Tschichold, Jan

New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation; Toronto: Cooper & Beatty, (1967). First edition in English. Jacket a little soiled and worn; a fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Original blue cloth (9.5 x 5.88 inches), 94 pages. Frontispiece portrait, illustrations throughout. Original printed white dust jacket. "Around the campfires of typographers Typographische Gestaltung has become the underground book of the century." The first appearance in English of the landmark 1935 book from the German designer, first published in German in Basel, this translation with a brief added prefatory note in English from Tschichold.

Reinhold. First Edition; First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good/None. Owner's initials and date on second front endpaper. Cloth lightly scuffed; lightly bumped at foot of spine and top front corner. ; 9.4 X 5.8 X 0.4 inches; 94 pages

Faber & Faber Limited, 1967. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1967. First Published in GB. 94 pages. Cream dust jacket over black cloth. Contains black and white photographs. Binding remains firm. Pages and photographs are lightly tanned throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Water staining to front panel. Foxing overall.

Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1967 Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. Dust-jacket condition: Good. Slight chip at top left corner of dust-jacket. "Here is the first English translation of Jan Tschichold's book, published in Switzerland in 1935, and now revised and brought up to date.The author discusses in detail the application of asymmetric design to different printing methods such as gravure, offset and letterpress. There are also detailed chapters on typographic refinements concerning type setting, grouping, line endings, tables, colour and paper. In addition, each chapter is illustrated with practical examples printed in several colours.". 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good.

New York: Reinhold Publishing in co-operation with Cooper & Beatty, Toronto, 1967. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. [6], 9-94; photographic frontispiece portrait, 37 illustrations in text (some in color), and 1 folding plate; fine copy in publisher's black cloth, dust jacket with small loss at the top of the front panel, else fine. The first English translation, by Ruari McLean, of a modern classic originally published in Switzerland in 1935.

London: Faber & Faber, Ltd, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Black cloth silver gilt and red, DW, tall 8vo., 94 pages, illustrated in color with facsimiles and one foldout. Translated from the German by Ruari McLean. First English edition of a landmark of typographic design. A near fine copy with a name and but a trace of wear to the tips, in mildly soiled, rubbed and slightly edgeworn DW, still quite presentable in archival mylar.

New York: Reinhold, 1967. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 94 pages. First U.S. edition, translated from the German by Ruari McLean. A landmark book in typographic design in which Tschichold advanced his ideas on asymmetric typography. He later recognized that there were two approaches to design problems and asymmetric was not necessarily the best. Jacket soiled with the text on the spine of the dust jacket faded.

1967. Trade Paperback. Used - Very Good/Very Good. Cooper & Beatty, Ltd., 1967. Very Good/Very Good. Dj is yellowed on edges and spine. There is edge wear on dj as well, especially on the top and spine. There are small creases and cracks along the top of dj and edges of spine. Book has minor edge wear as well, with the beginnings of push/pull on spine. P

London: Faber & Faber Limited 1967. 8vo. 94 pp., black cloth boards with dustjacket. Slight marks to the jacket and small chip to the head of the spine. Boards clean and internally fresh. Illustrated throughout. The English translation of the German title Typographische Gesaltung published in 1935. . Near Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 1967.

London/Toronto: Faber and Faber Limited in co-operation with Cooper & Beatty Ltd., 1967. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black cloth with title in silver on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. No inscriptions. Some light foxing to textblock edges. Binding sound. Dustjacket condition: Fair, the title on the spine has been bleached out by the sun. Generally shelfworn with a couple of small repaired tears, some light soiling and foxing and a scratchmark across the word asymmetric on the front cover of the jacket. Not price-clipped. 94pp. Several colour and b/w illustrations. This book is the first English translation (translated by Ruari Maclean) of Jan Tschichold's book first published in Switzerland in 1935. Tschichold discusses in detail the application of asymmetric design to different printing methods such as gravure, offset and letterpress. In addition, there are also detailed chapters on typographic refinements concerning type setting, grouping, line endings,… Read More