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FREE LETTERING STYLES; Made by Typefoundry, Amsterdam

FREE LETTERING STYLES; Made by Typefoundry, Amsterdam

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Published
1962
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Staplebound wraps
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New York: Amsterdam Continental Types and Graphic Equipment, Inc, 1962. Staplebound wraps. Fine/No dust jacket. 8vo. 24pp. Illus. A catalog of Free lettering typefaces from Typefoundry Amsterdam, Holland. Type examples in several sizes of the following typefaces: Libra, Studio, Studio Bold, Reiner Script, Mistral, Rondo, Rondo Bold, Amazone, Gracia, Excelsior and Excelsior Semibold. Full page examples of each… Read more about this item
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The Graphic Language of Neville Brody

by Jon Rozencroft

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Used - Near Fine
Edition
First edition
Published
1988
Binding
Wraps
ISBN
9783765806063
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Munich: Bucher, 1988. First edition. Wraps. Near Fine. 160pp., Illus. Color, B&W, Bibliography. This book collects together much of his output over the last decade, including his groun-breaking design and typography for the international style journal, The Face.The accompanying text features many direct quotes and observations on design theory and practice. With over 450 illustrations, this book provides… Read more about this item
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Printers Ornaments: Applied to the Composition of Decorative Borders, Panels and Patterns

by Warde, Frederick

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Used - Very Good
Published
1928
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Cloth
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London: Lanston Monotype Corp, 1928. Cloth. Very Good. 4to, 114 pp. including many pp. of samples using different colored inks and papers. In gilt-stamped red cloth variant binding. Spine just a bit faded, slight bow to boards, page edges tanned and lightly foxed.
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Type Design: An Essay on American Type Design with Specimens of the Outstanding Types

by McMurtrie, Douglas C. Introduction by Frederic W. Goudy

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Used - Good
Edition
First edition
Published
1927
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Boards
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Pelham, NY: Bridgman, 1927. First edition. Boards. Good. 8vo, 64 pp. Spine sunned and rubbed, head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped with some loss at head; light dustsoiling and foxing to covers, page edges, and endpapers; page corners lightly bumped.
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Type: Foundry Cast Hard Metal (Alphabets; Cuts & Borders)

by Specimen book

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Stiff boards
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Seattle: Archie J. Little, Typographer. Stiff boards. Very Good. Two volumes. n.d. 4to, pp. unnumbered. Previous owner name embossed on front cover, page edges sunned, scattered notes in pencil.
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Visible Language, Volume XIII, No. 3: Behavioural Studies of the Handwriting Skill

by Journal. Wing, Alan M., et al.

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Published
1979
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Wraps
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Cleveland, 1979. Wraps. Very Good. The Research Journal Concerned With All That Is Involved In Our Being Literate. 8vo, pp. 211-348. Wrappers edges sunned and lightly worn, ink stamps on front.
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Alphabet and Image: 2 (September 1946)

by Journal. Robert Harling, editor

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Used - Very Good
Published
1946
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Comb-bound in Card Covers
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London: Shenval Press, 1946. Comb-bound in Card Covers. Very Good. 4to, 91 pp., illustrations, a few in color. Covers dull, rubbed, lightly foxed, corners of covers bumped and creased, page corners lightly bumped.
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Art Deco Alphabets: A Treasury of Original Alphabets from the 1920s & 30s

by Copley, Frederick S., Compiled by

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Edition
First edition
Published
1985
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Wraps
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9780915590773
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Pittstown: Main Street, 1985. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. 4to, pp. unnumbered, 58 alphabets. Wrappers a bit rubbed and edgeworn, page edges tanned, heel of fore-edge lightly bumped.
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Eric Gill Collection, The, of the Humanities Research Center: A Catalogue

by Taylor, Robert N. Compiled by

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Published
1982
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Wraps
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Austin: University of Texas, 1982. Wraps. Very Good. 4to, 193 pp., illus. Wrappers a bit dustsoiled, edgeworn; corners bumped. DH.
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A Tribute to Edwin Grabhorn & The Grabhorn Press

A Tribute to Edwin Grabhorn & The Grabhorn Press

by Hart, James D.

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Edition
First edition
Published
1969
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Cloth
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San Francisco: Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, 1969. First edition. Cloth. Fine. 12mo, 25 pp. Edition of 1000 copies printed by Andrew Hoyem & Robert Grabhorn. Fine in plain jacket, which is a bit sunned and dustsoiled.
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Lettering: A Plea

Lettering: A Plea

by Smith, Percy

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Used - Fair
Edition
First edition
Published
1932
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Privately Printed for the First Editions Cllub, 1932. First edition. Boards. Fair. Edition of 400 copies. An unmarked reading copy with much of backstrip missing and super exposed; text block remains sound. Wear and a few nicks to corners and edges of boards, which are slightly bowed.
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J. H. Mason, 1875-1951: Scholar-Printer

by Owens, L. T.

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Used - Near Fine in Very Good DJ
Edition
First edition
Published
1976
Binding
Boards
ISBN
9780584103533
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London: Frederick Muller, 1976. First edition. Boards. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. Small 4to, 192 pp. Lower corners of boards lightly bumped, otherwise Fine, in lightly dustsoiled and edgeworn jacket.
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Life & Hard Times, or Sherwood Grover's Twenty-Five Years with the Grabhorn Press

by Grover, Sherwood

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Used - Near Fine
Edition
First edition
Published
1968
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Wraps
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San Francisco: Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs, 1968. First edition. Wraps. Near Fine. 4to, pp. unnumbered, foldout frontispiece. Edition of 200 copies. Just a hint of sunning and dustsoiling to edges of wrappers only.
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Bookmen's Trio: Ventures in Literary Philandering

Bookmen's Trio: Ventures in Literary Philandering

by Blumenthal, Walter Hart

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First edition
Published
1961
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Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1961. First edition. Boards. Near Fine. 8vo, 86 pp. Marbled paper over boards. Edition of 500 copies. Spine a bit sunned. DH.
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On Stone: The Art and Use of Typography on the Personal Computer

On Stone: The Art and Use of Typography on the Personal Computer

by Stone, Sumner

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Published
1991
Binding
Paperback
ISBN
9780938491286
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San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1991. Paperback. Very Good. 4to, 112 pp., illus. Light edgewear to wrappers. DH.
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Typographic Communications Today

by Gottschall, Edward M.

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Used - Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket
Published
1989
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Cloth
ISBN
9780262071147
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Cambridge: M.I.T., 1989. Cloth. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Folio, 249 pp., illus. A couple of tiny spots to covers, otherwise Fine, in lightly edgeworn jacket.
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Of the Just Shaping of Letters

Of the Just Shaping of Letters

by Durer, Albrecht. Translated by R.T. Nichol

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Published
1965
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New York: Dover, 1965. Wraps. Very Good. 4to, 40 pp. Sunning to wrapper and page edges, one wrapper corner lightly creased.
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Printing in the Americas

by Oswald, John Clyde

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Used - Very Good (No Jacket)
Edition
Reprint
Published
1968
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Cloth
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New York: Hacker Art Books, 1968. Reprint. Cloth. Very Good (No Jacket). 8vo, 565 pp., illus. Covers lightly rubbed, spine faded, small paint or white-out spot on front.
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Charles Holtzapffel's Printing Apparatus for the Use of Amateurs

by Holtzapffel, Charles. Edited by Mosley, James & David Chambers

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Published
1971
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Cloth
ISBN
9780900002601
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Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 1971. Cloth. Near Fine (No Jacket). Reprinted from the Third Greatly Enlarged Edition of 1846. 8vo, 79 pp., illus. Very light rubbing to edges of boards, page edges sunned.
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Calligraphic Styles

by Gourdie

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Edition
First American edition
Published
1979
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Cloth
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New York: Taplinger, 1979. First American edition. Cloth. Very Good.
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