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Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since 27 November 1998
Typophile Chapbook No. 2. No. 153 of 300 numbered copies. Tthe text of Cleland's now famous address to the American Institute of Graphic Arts in February, 1940. 32 + (3) pages. Green cloth with silver titling on spine and on front cover. Former owner's name in ink on front free end-paper: S (?) E (?) Patno. A near fine copy. Seller Inventory # ABE-1314358385
Title: HARSH WORDS
Publisher: New york: The typophiles
Publication Date: 1940
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. "An address delivered at a meeting of The American Institute of Graphic Arts in New York City February 5, 1940 on the occasion of the opening of the Seventeenth Annual Exhibition of the Fifty Books of the Year". AIGA Keepsake No. 12. Stiff paper wrappers, Fine copy. Seller Inventory # 55181
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. AIGA Keepsake #12. Previous owner bookplate (Charles Pont). 1/550 copies. Marbled wrappers. Very Good. Seller Inventory # 68814
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Edition ltd. to 550 copies (this copy unnumbered), 16mo; pp. [4], 43, [1]; original paste paper wrappers. printed paper label on upper cover; fine in stiff yellow card wrappers with upper label perished. Issued as no. 62 in the AIGA Keepsake series, and with 2 printed slips from AIGA regarding this publication laid in. a lively, entertaining and famous lecture by the renowned designer and graphic artist in which he sees "nonsense" as the universal "language" of art, so much so that "it is nearly hopeless to try to make oneself understood in any other.". Seller Inventory # 51412
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Cloth, 12mo., 32, (3) pages. Chapbook 2, number 9 of 300 numbered copies, printed at the Marchbanks Press. With the bookplate of Harold Hugo, and also a bookplate stating "This book is part of a collection given by Harold Hugo in honor of Rudolph Ruzicka" to Marlboro College Library, stamped withdrawn on the plate, Adhesive on the College plate has bled through, faintly offsetting the flyleaf. No other marks, the book is near fine, in archival mylar. Seller Inventory # 000208
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: California Books, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Condition: New. Seller Inventory # I-9781258536893
Quantity: Over 20 available
Seller: Hammer Mountain Book Halls, ABAA, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Softcover. Pages faintly toned; otherwise very good condition. . 43p. 550 copies. Seller Inventory # 53610
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
First edition. 16mo. 32 pp. Frontispiece portrait by Rockwell Kent. No. 112 of 399 copies. Hardcover binding, silver lettering cover and spine, very good condition. (43186). Seller Inventory # 15033
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Gyre & Gimble, Holden, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Green w/silver lettering. Rear pastedown shows small Library of Congress Stamp, text is otherwise clean and bright. Printed by The Marchbank's Press, this is a printing of Cleland's most famous speech about striving for excellence in the printing arts. Chapbook No. 2 with commentary laid in. #161 out of 300. Seller Inventory # H817HBB
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. According to the card from The Keepsake Committee, "This book contains the address delivered by Thomas Maitland Cleland at the preview and private opening for members of the Institute of the 18th annual exhibition of Fifty Books of the Year on February 5, 1940." 6" x 3.75". Marbled paper boards with paper title to front cover. One of 550 copies printed. Signed by Cleland with inscription: "To Ed. Robinson who never merited other than kind words from TM Cleland". 43 pages. Includes Keepsake No. 62 tipped-in sheet. Clean and unmarked. Head of spine slightly bumped. Seller Inventory # 2015-V61
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Number 31 of 200 printed. Brown boards with mounted title cards on the spine and cover; glassine DJ; 32 pp. Subtitle is, "An Address Delivered at a Meeting of the American Institute of Graphic Arts in New York City, February 5th, 1940, on the occasion of the opening of the Eighteenth Annual Exhibition of the Fifty Books of the Year." VG- (Boards are shelf/edgeworn, with darkened top edges; DJ is edgeworn and torn in some places, along the edges; textblock edges are foxed; interior is clean; binding is solid.). Seller Inventory # 194400
Quantity: 1 available