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London: Penguin Books. Fully illustrated. Clean and unmarked. . Good to Very Good . Soft cover. Later. 1954.

London: Faber and Faber, 1963. Soft Cover. Good. Trade Paperback.

Harvard University Press Book. Good. Cloth. No date (c. 1945, 137 pages, glossary, index, fold-out chart, many type specimen illustrations. Spine lean and fading, p.o.n. on the front pastedown. Dust jacket is in two pieces separated at the spine, wihich is less than half present, many chips on the edges and extremities, now in protective sleeve..

London: Faber and Faber, 1953. Later printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 5th impression (revised). 8vo. Pp xi + 137. Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine. A clean, unmarked copy in a tight binding without dust jacket.

Faber and Faber, 1945. Hard cover. Good/Good. Jacket is slightly faded, has a few tears, and shows wide coverage of light foxing. Cover is pretty clean. Book edge and inside pages show foxing to varying degrees, small numbers of individual spots on middle pages.

Faber & Faber,. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket.

Faber and Faber, 1946. Hardcover. Good. 1946. 137 pages. No dust jacket. Beige pictorial cloth. Insert to front pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Water marks to boards and spine.

Pelican Books. No. A288. Very Good+. 1954. Paperback. Mass Market Paperback in Very Good condition. A solid binding, one page with markings, otherwise a clean & unmarked interior. Light cover scuffing and edgewear. Black & white illustrations through out the book. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 117 pages .

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press Very Good condition. Spine mildly sunned. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. NO date (but 1945?). First U. S. Edition. A classic on the subject, well-illustrated in color and B&W, and with a helpful glossary and fold-out type specimen. Simon's work as a typographer is world famous. He was director of The Curwen Press, and edited THE FLEURON and SIGNATURE. Bound in the original blue cloth. From the publisher: "INTRODUCTION TO TYPOGRAPHY is a handbook for those interested in book production and deals with many of the typographic problems which normally arise in each stage of printing a book, from the half title at the beginning right through to the index at the end. There are also chapters on Choosing a Type Face, The Printing of Plays and The Printing of Poetry, Illustration, Binding, etc. This book has been written for young printers and publishers and for coming aspirants into… Read More

London: Faber and Faber. Very Good. 1945. Hardcover. Very Good. No dust jacket. 1947 impression. ; Xiii, 137 p. , [1] folded p. Of plates : ill. (some col. ) ; 22 cm. .

London: Faber, 1963. Book. Good. Wraps. Reprint.. xii + 164pp; Slight wear to edges and covers else a bright copy; Size: 8vo.

GB: Penguin Pelican, 1954. Name of owner at front of book. Book is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. . Revised Edition (1st thus). Paperback. VG+.

LONDON: FABER AND FABER. G. 1949. TCM LIGHT FOXING INSIDE COVERS .

LONDON: FABER AND FABER. G. 1949. TCM LIGHT FOXING .

Transatlantic, 1964-01-01. 2nd. Paperback. Good/paperback. [NB55 MAR04T6 AL1] has edge wear/bumped corners, no marks on pages. tight and sturdy reading copy.

London: Faber and Faber, 1963. Revised edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo; xii, 164 pages, blue cloth Simon edited "Signature" magazine, and was Chairman of The Curwen Press from 1939 to 1956. This edition has been revised by David Bland, with changes such as the addition of Linotype and Intertype faces, with other updated details. It includes a section on printing poetry. Some plates in color.

London: Faber and Faber, 1946. 137p, decorated cloth, illus., vg in dj with light edge wear. 2nd Impression. Glossary, Bibliography, & Index.

London: Faber and Faber, 1947. 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 137, [1]; 78 text illustrations, 1 folding plate; blue cloth, gilt title on spine, owner's stamps blocked out in blue marker on endpapers, fore-edge spotted, very good.

Faber & Faber. Very Good. 1945. Hardcover. xiii +137pp, illustrated with examples, bound in VG ochre cloth cover with blue decoration on front, and spine, red spine lettering ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London & New York. Peter Davies Limited & Harper & Brothers. 1928. folio. 34cm, xix,83 p., with 122 specimen plates, japon velum backed decorated boards, gilt spine titles, ex-library copy with black call number on the foot of the spine and occasional stamps, boards edges worn, binding dust worn, internally sound, good to very good (ds1). ~ Essays include: Printing in England. (Simon); Printing in the United States. (Paul Beauion); Continental Printing (Rodenberg). With extensive plates of title-pages, book illustrations & type faces. The state of printing in the ninety twenties with significant introduction by Aldous Huxley.