Search Results: Printing from Andrew Langer, Bookseller

[Cambridge, Mass.]: [Ginn & Company]. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1927]. No edition noted. Hardcover. Booklet showcasing the Press and it's capabilties. Orange paper wraps, stapled, photographs illustrate production activities at the press. ; Oblong, 8 x 6"; [36] pp; Wraps edgeworn, including one small missing piece on rear cover, tiny closed tears, first 2 pages with light soiling. .

San Francisco, California: White & Farnsworth, Commercial Stationers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1925. No edition noted. Softcover. "All tables are figured on the basis of one (1) pound to a ream of paper, (500 sheets to a ream). Multiplying by the weight per ream gives the exact answer. These tables are also adapted to other uses." Black stiff leatherette wraps, gilt lettering to front cover, General Instructions followed by tables for 1 to 100 cents, approximately 110 unnumbered pages, fold out pages in front provide additional instructions and examples.. ; Oblong, 7-1/2" x 5"; A scarce item, with no other copies found in the trade or institutionally held (per OCLC) as of October 2018. Roy S. White and J. N. Farnsworth were active in various office supply ventures and location in San Francisco starting at least 1907 (American Stationer, Volume 62, page 36, 1907).; Light corner wear, slight toning to paper, clean and unmarked. .

San Francisco: University Of California Extension Center. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1974. No edition noted. Softcover. Reprint of the chapter entitled The Instrument, from the author's An Essay on Typography, first published in 1931. Sewn white wraps, press pictured on cover.; 5.5 x 8.5"; [10] pp; Slight soiling to wraps, otherwise fine. .

New York: Intertype Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1957. Softcover. Stiff red covers, black cloth spine, illustrated with exploding diagrams labelled with part names and descriptions.; 6 x 9"; 596 pp; Front cover with thinned area, as where a label was removed. This copy has been used by a printer, and bears some soiling and fingerprints no doubt consisting of printers ink. .

Paris: Librairie Alphonse Lemerre. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1929. First Edition. Softcover. Original pictorial publishers wraps covered with glassine wrapper, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy signed by the author and dated in first year of publication. ; 4-3/4" x 7-1/2"; 181 pp; Signed by Author; Paper for text toned at edges, little additional wear. Glassine wrapper worn at top and bottom of spine. .

Woodstock, Vermont: William Edwin Rudge. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1945. Magazine. Light blue wraps, illustrated, including tip-in. ; 7.25 x 10"; 88 pp; Bumped lower right. No writing or tears. .

New Haven: William Edwin Rudge. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1941. Magazine. Blue wraps, illustrated, including tip-in and bound-in booklet. ; 7.25 x 10"; 93 pp; Lightly sunned and bumped upper right. No writing or tears. .

New Haven: William Edwin Rudge. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1941. Magazine. Wraps with cover illustration by Hugo Steiner, Prag, illustrated, including tip-in.; 7.25 x 10"; 176 pp; Lightly bumped lower left, a few pages toned. No writing or tears. .

Chicago and New York: Dartnell Publications. Very Good with no dust jacket. (1937). Hardcover. Highlight of this issue is a juried catalog of 190 Photographs for Advertising; quality reproductions of each photo (including a color section) with title, photographer, advertiser and agency identified. Blue paper boards, clear comb binding, color cover image with white lettering, illustrated with much in color, many uses of spot colors or specialty inks and papers, many industry ads.; 10-1/4" x 13-1/4"; 158 pp; Rubbing and edgewear to covers, contents are fine except for the section of Photographs for Newspaper Advertising (these are reproduced on toned newsprint, with resultant bleeding to adjacent leaves) .

New York: Dover Publications. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1980. Reprint. Softcover. Unabridged (1980) republication of the second (1937) edition. Volume 1 ISBN 0-486-23928-4; Volume 2 ISBN 0-486-23929-2.; 6" x 9"; 292+326 pp; Little used volumes with slight cover wear and soiling. Volume 2 slightly bumped at upper right. Pages clean and without tears or writing. .

Holyoke, Massachusetts: American Writing Paper Company. Fair with no dust jacket. No edition noted. Hardcover. Printed paper boards, 18 leaves of paper samples in various colors, some with printing some without, undated 1920s era promotional piece; 12 x 16"; Spine lacking backstrip, 1 leaf lacks corner (a prior person "borrowed" a sample), wear and browning to edges of boards .

Carpenter Paper Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1951 (1938). Softcover. Contains a wealth of practical information about printing and presswork. Seven ring black leatherette loose leaf notebook with tabs and typescrpt text printed front side only. Index tabs cover Paper pulps & mfg., Paper tests, Paper sales information, Paper complaints, Printing processes, Offset process paper, Presses & operation, Offset process inks, Offset process printing problems, Offset process suggestions, Letter press printing paper, Press operation plates & rollers, Letter press printing inks, Plate information halftone-line etching rubber plates etc., Letter press printing problems, Miscl processes mimeo-gravure- silk screen duplicating etc., Miscl information. "The material in this book was collected and edited by Oliver S. Barrie and was copyrighted by Nation Wide Papers, Inc. in 1938... The book was not made available to the public at that time. Carpenter Paper Company deemed this… Read More

[Berkeley, California]: Marc Treib. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Describes reproductive printing processes (Color-in-Color, Diazo, Fluid Duplication, Memeograph, Offset Lithography, etc.) with sample sheets following each description. An unusual binding - metal spiral at top, metallic mylar front cover, thick board as rear cover, rounded edges, white faux felt lettering to front, pages not consecutively numbered. Stamped as Authorized Edition and numbered 101 of an edition of 125 copies. Early work by this author. ; Oblong, 8 x 8-1/2"; Author is a noted Professor of Architecture (Emeritus) at the University of California, Berkeley. Place suggested by OCLC. ; Scuffing/running to mylar, toning to page edges. .

Boston, Massachusetts: Spartan Press Inc.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound volume containing the first issues of this newsletter as published in 1917. Red cloth hardcover, all edges gilt, gilt titling, much printed using spot colors. Presentation inscription of Henry S. Dunn, President and General Manager of the Press. Also laid in is 1919 letter on Spartan Press letterhead handwritten and signed by Dunn. ; 5 x 7"; Minor cover wear. .

New York: Pace Press. Good+ with no dust jacket. No edition noted. Hardcover. Heavyweight printed paper boards, bound at top with lettered white plastic comb, each page is devoted to a single font. Not dated but their phone number was CIRCLE 6-8100 and New York was assigned a 2-digit postal code. ; Oblong, 12" x 9-1/2"; 127 pp; Boards soiled, front board almost half detached with loss of cardboard, some edgewear, text clean and unmarked. .