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Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz. 2008. Second edition. 360 pages. 4to (30 x 22 cm). Cloth-binding with silkscreen embossing. Dust jacket with light wear near the edges . Former owner’s signature (Leif Thollander). More than 150 illustrations and examples. Text in German.About three popular font mistakes and more than 300 pages to get it right: How to see, understand, choose and teach font. With a continuous dummy text from Anne Cuneo's ‘Garamonds Lehrmeister’. 50 fonts described in detail and another 200 fonts by comparison.

AB Watti-Kustannus OY, 1985. 256 s. (28,5 x 21 cm). Ljusbrunt, blinddekorerat skinnband med välbevarat skyddsomslag. Inskription med tusch på titelsidan, annars i mycket fint skick. Välillustrerad i färg och svartvitt. Tryckt i 200 numrerade exemplar varav detta är nr. 46."Denna bok presenterar de centrala verken i Axel Gallen-Kallelas produktion. Den åtföljande texten beskriver hans utveckling som konstnär..."

Gebr. Klingspor, Offenbach a. M. (c. 38 pages). Oblong 12mo (11,7 x 14,8 cm). Stiff paper wrappers. Fourteen colour drawings by Willi Harwerth.Printed at the Klingspor’s printing office in red and black in Rudolf Koch's Jessen-Schrift on Zerkall-Bütten paper. This is one of the first use of the newly cut Jessen-Schrift. It was a successful fusion of a black letter and a roman face which attracted much attention and had great influence in Germany and elsewhere.

Hasse W. Tullberg, Stockholm. 1898-1899. (10), 5-318, (1) s. (10), 325-844, (3) s. 4to. (29,5 x 24 cm). Green cloth with decoration in black and gilt. All edges gilt. Bottom of spine a little bit worn, part I. Illustrated with numerous portraits, as well as drawings by Agi Lindegren. Two volumes.

Verlag Niggli AG, Sulgen. 2000. Fourth edition. 296 pages. 4to (30,5 x 23,5 cm). Laminated card boards. Small owner’s label inside front board (Arne Heine). Illustrated in colour and b/w throughout. An indispensable tool for transverse, typographers, graphic artists, apprentices or anyone who wants to learn more about design questions. Not only the actual design questions are dealt with, but the book also provides information about the main aspects: writing, colour, reproduction technology, printing and equipment, paper, legal foundations, etc.

Douglas Pepler at the Hampshire House Workshop, Hammersmith, London. 1916. Reprinted with some corrections. 12mo (13,5 x 10,5 cm). (2), 50 + 2 pages advertising for books. A fine copy in the original beige cloth backed blue cloth boards and gilt lettering. Printed in red and black. Printed by the Westminster Press, prior to Pepler’s great move to Ditchling.First published as a Christmas Greeting, 1915. (See Priscilla Johnston pp. 195-196).

Houghton Mifflin & Company of Boston and New York. 1904. 110 pages + colophon. Vellum back, decorated boards, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Corners scuffed, bookplate inside front board (Amelia M. E. Bixby). Decorative illustrations in brown. Book design by Bruce Rogers. Set in Brimmer italic type and printed in 330 numbered copies, this no. 205, by the Riverside Press. (Warde no. 50).

The Graphis Press, Zurich. 1968. 156 pages + 3 bound-in original woodcuts with sun imagery. 4to (30,5 x 24 cm). Grey cloth, titled and decorated in gilt on the front cover & the spine, fine dust jacket with minor edge wear. Extensively illustrated in colour and b/w. Fourth printing. Text in English, German and French.The subtitles are: Sun Symbolism of the Past and the Present in Pagan and Christian Art, Folk Art, Fine Art and Applied Art / Sonnensymbole aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart in der vorchristlichen und christlichen - in der freien und angewandten Kunst / Symboles du Soleil du passe a nos jour, paiens ou chretiens, tires du folklore, des beaux-arts et des arts appliques.

Druk Editions, Berlin. 2018. 320 pages. 4to (28 x 22,5 cm). Printed card covers. Profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome. With bibliography, indices of names and typefaces. English edition. Standard work on the subject and out of print. 2004 edition reprint. New copy and signed by Jan Middendorp. In this book Jan Middendorp presents a comprehensive overview of old and new type design in the Netherlands. There is probably no other country that boasts a type design culture as dense as that of the Netherlands. Middendorp traces its origins in the groundbreaking work by punchcutters, type designers and lettering artists from the 15th to the 20th century.This book also gives insight into the motives and methods of the current type design community, showing published and unpublished typefaces as well as sketches, studies and samples of unfamiliar lettering work.”No question about it, Dutch Type is one of the best books on the history of type to be published in the past decades. An invaluable reference book.” Paul Shaw in PRINT Magazine, September/October 2004.

Åhlén & Åkerlund, Stockholm. 1957-63. Ringpärm med plastöverdragna pärmar. (29,5 x 24,5 cm). Stilprovet är indelat i tre huvudgrupper efter framställningssätt, markerade av grå registerblad. Samtliga registerblad har en komplett innehållsförteckning. Underavdelningarna markeras av smala ledblad på orangefärgat papper med uppgift om användningsområden. Maskinsats: Linotype Index 1 ark, 9 ark. Monotype Index 1 ark, 4 ark. Handsats: Monotype Index 2 ark, 32 ark. Originalsnitt Index 1 ark, 3 ark. Fotosats: Index s. 1-2. Photon s. 3-62 + linjer & infattningar (2 s.) Hadego s. 63-68. Filmotype 69-73A-73B. Linofilm s. 75-108 + infattningar & punkter (3 s.) + Photon punkter (1 s.). + 3 onumrerade ark med korrekturtecken, omfångstabeller, infattningar & tecken. För omfångsberäkning är en cicerograderad celonskiva bifogad. Tryckt i en numrerad upplaga för namngiven ägare. Detta är nummer 287 och har tillhört E. Göran Thermænius.Det här är den första provboken som CFH sammanställde och typograferade. Sobra typografiska lösningar och Åhlén & Åkerlunds typsnitt från USA, som naturligtvis var valda och anskaffade av CFH, gör stilprovet mycket attraktivt.

Prestel Verlag Munich. 2004. Liljevalchs Konsthall. Paintings & Wallpapers: 156 pages. Photographs, Films, Videos, Books, Interviews: 174 pages. Texts: 135 pages. Three softcover volumes housed in a slip case. Approx. 400 illustrations (6 foldouts). Text in English. Important catalogue in great condition.

George L. Frow, Sevenoaks, GB, 1978. xii, 207 s. (26 x 17,5 cm). Ljusbrunt klotband med slitet skyddsomslag. Klotöverdraget lite "bubbligt". Pärmhörn något stötta, snedläst. Inlagan i mycket fint skick. Standardverket på området som täcker alla modellerna med detaljerade beskrivningar, fotoavbildningar och teckningar.

The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1991. vi, 249 pages. Folio (36,5 x 27,5 cm.). Blind stamped cloth, dust jacket. Over 900 illustrations, more than 500 of which are in colour. Second printing. Designed by Mo Lebowitz.Chapters include ”The Many Faces of Typographic Design”, ”The Focal Point - The Bauhaus”, ”Spreading the Word: Jan Tschichold”, Fine Tuning: Clarity and Grid Systems”, "American Design Pioneers", "The Influence of the Private Press", "Typeface Milestones 1896-1960", ”Typefaces 1970-”, "The Many Faces of Typography Today."

Lars Müller Publishers, Baden. 2001. First edition. 248 pages + an index (7 pages). Tall 8vo (24,5 x 17 cm). Blue cloth with dust jacket. 248 collages printed in colour on glossy paper. Essay by Joseph Giovannini. Copy as new!

Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden. 1971. 237 pp. + colophon. (34,5 x 24,5 cm). Original pale gray linen covers, black stamped title on spine and front cover, dust jacket worn and with top edge margin tears, front cover’s top corner bumped. 100 items catalogued and commented on recto side and illustrations of the entries on verso. Text in German. Finely printed in black and red on quality stock. The colophon notes "Hermann Zapf den Einband und die typographische Gestalt des Buches. Die Gesamtherstellung besorgte die MZ-Verlagsdruckerei in Memmingen."First edition, ”Deutscher Buchdruck im Jahrhundert Gutenbergs”, published 1940. Carl Whemer is the editor of the text, plates, and index of this new edition printed in honour of Victor Scholderer.

Hugo Gebers förlag, Stockholm. 1948. 71 s. följt av 48 planscher. (33,5 x 26,5 cm). Sobert, rött privatbundet halvskinnband med fem upphöjda bind och gulddekorerad rygg. Övre guldsnitt, övriga snitt hyvlade. (Gust. Hedberg, Stockholm). Litet märke vid ryggens nedre del, annars ett välbevarat och elegant band. Med en beskrivande verkförteckning.

Paris. 1995. xxxvii, 346, (3) pp. 4:o (27 x 18,5 cm). Stiff paper wrappers. Facsimile examples in the text + 22 plates. With index. Bibliography of the Parisian printer and bookseller Jean Loys. 394 prints in chronological order 1535-1547. All titles with collation as well as bibliographical references. All items commented.

The Limited Editions Club, New York. 1936. 828 pages. 8vo (23,5 x 15,5 cm). Introduction by Hugh Walpole. Lithographs in many colours and pen drawings by Barnett Freedman Designed, printed and bound by Oliver Simon at The Curwen Press set in Monotype Walbaum Dickinson Mills paper. Bound in full mulberry linen, stamped black and gold, top edges gilt. Signed by Barnett Freedman. Two volumes in a little bit worn slipcase. 1500 numbered copies, this is no. 698. (LEC 77).”This is one of the ten finest books we have ever issued, and one of the ten least popular. Odi profanum vulgus!” George Macy.

Egen utgivning, [Harestad]. 1991. 236 s. (25 x 22,5 cm). Privatbundet, ljust grönt halvskinnband med fyra upphöjda bind, handmarmorerat pärmpapper och tätfärgat övre snitt. Något blek rygg. Fotoillustrationer i svartvitt av författaren. Bibliofilupplagan tryckt i 50 numrerade exemplar varav detta är nr. 9 och signerat av författaren.

Verlag DuMont Schauberg, Köln. 1968. 416 s. (30 x 22 cm). Gult klotband med rygg- och pärmtitel. Obetydligt nött skyddsomslag. Svartvita textillustrationer, 40 monterade färgplanscher samt en planschbilaga med 298 svartvita illustrationer på konsttryckpapper. Fint exemplar av standardverket på området.

Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1985. xiv, 239 pages. Small 4to (25,4 x 19,4 cm). Black cloth with Paul Rands’ signature blind stamped on front cover, dust jacket, An excellent copy. 208 illustrations including 55 in colour. Designed by Paul Rand. First edition.”A Designer’s Art” brings together many of Paul Rand’s best essays on design and a wide selection of his brilliant graphic work from the thirties to the present.If Paul Rand was the most influential American graphic designer of the twentieth century, then Paul Rand: A Designer's Art is the most important on his work. A comprehensive collection of his most important and best-known designs, A Designer's Art gives unique insight into Rand's design process and theory.

Zollikofer & Compagnie, St-Gall. 1948. 118 pages. 4:o (29,5 x 25 cm). Brown cloth, A. M. Cassandre lettered in yellow on front board. Spine faded. No jacket. Introduction by Maximilien Vox (6 pages) followed by plates, 6 in colour and 94 b/w, showing Cassandre’s highlight posters.

Natur och Kultur, Stockholm. 2008. Ny, omarbetad upplaga. 332 s. (28 x 24 cm). Kartonnageband med tryckta pärmar, skyddsomslag. Rikt illustrerad med färgfotografier. Nyskick! I "Klätterrosor och rabattrosor" ingår beskrivningar av alla typer av klätterrosor som kan odlas inSverige, såväl vildrosor, gammeldags sorter som moderna sorter. Alla typer av rabattrosor som kan odlas i Sverige, både gammaldags och moderna sorter.

Brockhaus, Leipzig 1857. xvi, 439 s. Samtida halvskinnband, nött rygg och pärmkanter, hörnstött, lagerfläckad i början och slutet. Med register.