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Wilson is one of a handful of book designers who brought the West Coast to the admiring notice of the world of typography. In 1983 he received a MacArthur Prize. This nice, practical, inexpensive reprint, with a new foreword by Sumner Stone, brings back into print a classic on layout, type, paper, printing, binding. Essential to any collection on the book. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Wilson is one of a handful of book designers who brought the West Coast to the admiring notice of the world of typography. In 1983 he received a MacArthur Prize. This nice, practical, inexpensive reprint, with a new foreword by Sumner Stone, brings back into print a classic on layout, type, paper, printing, binding. Essential to any collection on t
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Chronicle Books Llc (edition Revised), 1993
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Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1993
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Paperback. Condition: Very good +. Reprint. Foreword by Sumner Stone. Sm 4to. In illustrated glossy wrappers, with French flaps. With frontis b/w illustration. 160 pages, with Index and Postscript. With b/w illustrations throughout. No names or marks. The first printing of the reissue of Wilson's study, first published in 1967. Seller Inventory # 3890