Category: Books and Publishing

Adobe Print Publishing Guide

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Adobe Systems : 1995

Seller ID: 26912

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Excellent introduction to the processes and issues involved in preparing color publications at the end of the 20th century, when desktop publishing was beginning.

Topics include preparing for commercial printers, guidelines for constructing a publication, and more. Index. Extensively illustrated. 79p.
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August Laube: Alte Meister Graphik (Old Master Prints)

By: August Laube

Price: $22.00 USD

Publisher: August Laube : 2004

Seller ID: 19574

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Catalog of works for sale. Price list. Beautifully illustrated. Text in German and English. Includes old master prints, modern prints, rare books, drawings and Swiss Romantic art. Artists include Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Durer, Canaletto, Franz Niklaus Konig, Daumier, and others.
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The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library: A Guide to Its Collections

By: Beinecke Library

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Yale Univ Press : 1994

Seller ID: 25170

ISBN-13: 9780845731277

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Dust jacket over paperback book. Second edition. Includes the general collection, rare books and manuscripts, American literature, Western Americana, German Literature and the Osborn Collection. Illustrated throughout. 123p. Bibliographic references. Index.
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The Power of Pictures

By: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Yale University : 2013

Seller ID: 32363

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Beautifully illustrated. 52p. Measures 6.5x8.75 inches. Accompanied the an exhibition (October 4-16, 2013) of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library's 50th anniversary celebration.

The exhibition drew on the library's collections to explore how people throughout the ages have used images to tell stories, document their lives, and define their worlds.
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Book Find Club Reply Card

By: Book Find Club

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Book Find Club : nd

Seller ID: 23739

Binding: Postcard

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Book Find Club reply card with 2 cents postage prepaid noted on the card. Founded by George Braziller, the Book Find Club was one of many niche book clubs in the Forties that sought to emulate, on a smaller scale. the success of Book-of-the-Month Club and the Literary Guild. Book clubs accounted for much of book sales in 1946, particularly outside the major cities. After World War II Braziller sold the club to Time-Life and went on to found George Braziller Inc. in the mid 1950s, a highly prestigious publishing firm known particularly for its books on art and architecture.• • •...
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Literary Rivals: Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books

By: Bradford, Richard

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: The Robson Press : 2015

Seller ID: 23775

ISBN-13: 9781849546027

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Dust jacket. 316p. Index. Includes Vladimir Nabokov against Edmund Wilson; Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Virginia Wolfe, and John Updike against each other; Ernest Hemingway's spectacular and very public falling-out with former friends Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas; Lillian Hellman against Mary McCarthy; plus many more.
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Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937

By: Bury, Stephen

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: British Library : 2007

Seller ID: 19589

ISBN-13: 9780712309752

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Dust jacket. Many illustrations. 176p. Draws upon the British Library's unrivalled collection of artists' books, manifestos, little magazines, literary manuscripts, sound recordings, and posters from across Europe in order to explore the rapid exchange of ideas through printed matter that marked the avant-garde movement.
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Washington Behind the Monument

By: Bustard, Bruce I.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: National Archives : 1990

Seller ID: 32418

ISBN-13: 9780911333817

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Price sticker on back cover. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition held at the National Archives in 1990. Illustrated primarily in black-and-white. 102p. Maps. Measures 8.5x11 inches.
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Best In Cutting Edge Typography

By: Cliff, Stafford

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Rotovision : 1994

Seller ID: 25566

ISBN-13: 9782880462321

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket. 224p. Beautifully illustrated. Measures 9x12 inches. Explores how contemporary typographers are experimenting with type, illustration and photography, from magazines and annual reports to posters and television advertising. Surveys over 200 of the world's most challenging designs, showing their influences and discussing the creative process. He includes detailed research of some of the projects and traces their stage-by-stage development, from initial brief to final artwork. This book also features interviews with designers and contains a resource of typefaces,...
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The Local Bookstore: Cody's (June 2008 Event Schedule Booklet)

By: Cody's Bookstore

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Cody's Bookstore : 2008

Seller ID: 19398

Binding: Booklet (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Like New

Unmarked. Cody's bookstore opened in Berkeley, CA in 1956 and closed on June 20, 2008. This 12-page booklet outlines their event schedule for their last month, including those events that were cancelled due to the store's closure. There are 2 images of the last store (on Shattuck Ave).
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Curtis Flannel: Embellishments and Flourishes

By: Curtis Flannel

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Southhampton, PA, James River Corporation : 1990

Seller ID: 25427

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Unisource label and a smudge on back cover. Contains different kinds of papers, beautiful text design and great use of die cut and image. Heavy stock papers. Paper specimen book issued by one of the premier paper companies in America. Printed in color.
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Books and Collectors

By: Dunbar, Maurice

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Los Altos, CA, The Book Nest : 1980

Seller ID: 21089

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Signed. Clipped dust jacket with a few nicks. Illustrated by Edward D. Walker. Covers first editions, old books, limited editions, autographs, handling and more. 189p. Index.
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Faber & Faber: The Untold Story

By: Faber, Toby

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: Faber & Faber : 2019

Seller ID: 33505

ISBN-13: 9780571339044

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Index. 426p. Measures 6.25x9.5 inches.

Published to celebrate its 90th anniversary, here is the untold story behind one of one of the world's most iconic publishing houses.
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The Bookbinder in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg: An Account of his Life and Times and of His Craft

By: Ford, Thomas K.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg : 1980

Seller ID: 27801

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Illustrations throughout. Suggested readings. This booklet is a re-publication of one first published in 1959. 32p.
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The Printer in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg: An Account of his Life and Times and of His Craft

By: Ford, Thomas K.; Rouse, Parke Jr.; Wroth, Lawrence C.

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg : 1993

Seller ID: 23401

ISBN-13: 9780910412209

Binding: Booklet (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Illustrations. Suggested readings. 34p. Measures 6x9 inches.
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Applied Arts Quarterly (Volume 6, Number 3, Fall 1991)

By: Giffen, Peter (editor)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Applied Arts, Inc. : 1991

Seller ID: 14473

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Extensively illustrated, including a colorful foldout piece by Bradbury Tamblyn & Boorne Ltd. A look at computer art, computer trends, computer design and computer animation just as the computer was transforming art and design.
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Print's Best Logos and Symbols: Winning Designs from Print Magazine's National Competition

By: Goss, Tom (editor)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: RC Publications : 1990

Seller ID: 24015

ISBN-13: 9780915734658

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket. 192p. Measures 8.5x10.5 inches.

224 logos and symbols plus related materials. Color images. Assorted collection ranges from MJJ Products (Michael Jackson logo) to T.G.I. Friday's.
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Typographic Directions: Advertising Directions 4: (Trends in Visual Advertising)

By: Gottschall, Edward M. (editor)

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Art Directions Book Co. : 1964

Seller ID: 20184

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Proof copy of the book with signoff initials. Internal text appears unmarked. Some edge wear, particularly around the head and tail of spine. The book includes articles from a number of authors and traces the developement of advertising typography from the Bauhaus period to the early 1960's. Typography is seen through the lens of a number of fields (advertising, direct mail, promotion, editorial, book publishing,etc). Contributors include Freeman Craw, Hal Zamboni, Mahlon Cline, Edward Gottschall, Aaron Burns, Klaus Schmidt, Robert Pliskin, Bob Jones and others. Indices. Advertisements. 278p....
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Classification: An Introductory Manual (with related materials)

By: Herdman, Margaret M.

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: American Library Association : 1972

Seller ID: 32537

ISBN-13: 9780838900253

Binding: Booklet (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Good

Unmarked. Eleventh printing. Covers the choice of a classification schreme, kinds of classification, construction of classification systems. 51p. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches.

Lain in Guide to Library Classification of materials on mass media by Christopher H. Sterling and a bookmark with a summary of classifications.
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Beyond the Text: Artists' Books from the Collection of Robert J. Ruben (Grolier Club Exhibition)

By: Korshak, Yvonne; Ruben, Robert J.

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: New York, The Grolier Club : 2010

Seller ID: 27364

ISBN-13: 9781605830261

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Inside cover notes this volume was a gift to the Bancroft Library and the plate also includes a withdrawn stamp on it. Catalog for a 2010 exhibition at The Grolier Club. Measures 11x8 inches. Color plates.

Artists include Susan Bird, Julie Chen, Hart Crane, Red Grooms, Jenny Holzer, Alfredo Jaar, Emily Marin, Thomas McEvilley, Kenneth Patchen, Walt Whitman, and others. 157p.
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175 Printed Books: Catalogue 103

By: Kraus, H. P.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: H.P. Kraus : nd.

Seller ID: 20947

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Part One: From Early Printing to Modern Science. Part Two: Illustrated Books. Illustrated throughout, including 15 tipped in B/W plates.
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Caxton's Trace: Studies in the History of English Printing

By: Kuskin, William (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press : 2006

Seller ID: 25628

ISBN-13: 9780268033088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Factory sealed. Bumped corner. No dust jacket, as received from publisher. 424p. Illustrated. Ten essays that seek to reappraise Caxton's achievement and influence chiefly on later fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English printing.

Contributors: William Kuskin, David R. Carlson, Mark Addison Amos, Jennifer R. Goodman, A. E. B. Coldiron, Alexandra Gillespie, William N. West, Patricia Clare Ingham, Tim William Machan, and Seth Lerer.
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Vertical

By: Lecta

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Lecta : 2017

Seller ID: 31464

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Dust jacket under clear, mylar archival cover. This book is the 2017 edition of the conceptual creative challenge that Lecta undertakes yearly to highlight the quality of its range of publishing papers. It features a series of striking images taken vertically from different perspectives and distances. It combines photography and the imagination in a variety of singular images that vary depending on the photographer and spectator's point of view. 93p. Measures 9.75x12.75 inches.
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Bookplates And Badges Of C.F.A. Voysey: Architect and Designer of the Arts and Crafts Movement

By: Livingstone, Karen

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Antique Collectors Club Ltd : 2011

Seller ID: 28542

ISBN-13: 9781851496402

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Like New

Factory sealed. 303p. Illustrated in color and black/white. Measures 6.25x9.5 inches. Presents the designs for bookplates and badges by the English Arts and Crafts designer and architect, C.F.A. Voysey, (1857-1941).

Perhaps the most recognised and influential designer of his age, this book presents many previously unpublished designs and examines places Voysey's in relationship with family and clients, and his central role as designer of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
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Paperback Nabokov

By: Maliszewski, Paul

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: McSweeney's : 2000

Seller ID: 21824

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. 32 pages. Beautifully illustrated. An investigative essay exploring that author's endless efforts, mostly in vain, to improve the covers of his books, in particular their paperback incarnations. With four color pages of rare paperback covers, and an appendix of related correspondence.

Nabokov's (1899-1977) first nine novels were in Russian. He then rose to international prominence as a writer of English prose. He also made serious contributions as a lepidopterist and chess composer.
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Category: Books and Publishing