Catich Edward M (39 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Offprint from "The Numismatist." ; 17 pages.

paper wrapper, french fold. 8vo. paper wrapper, french fold. (4) pages. Pamphlet commemorating Rochester Institute of Technology's eighth annual Goudy award presented to Edward M. Catich. Signed by Edward Catich in red ink on the front cover. A fine copy. Title page printed in red and black, one illustration and tailpiece printed in blue. Catich, Edward M. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Quarter green cloth gilt with decorated-paper covered boards, tall 8vo., (36) pages. Beautifully designed and printed by Carroll Coleman, hand-set in Joanna and with initials in two colors. Bookplate, else a near fine copy in archival mylar.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

8vo. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. (36) pages. First edition. Small dampstain on the spine, else fine in near fine jacket. Beautifully hand-printed with initials in color. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. Prairie Press (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Iowa City: The Prairie Press, 1964. not paginated. The author was an admired calligrapher and a letterer who delivered an address to the Society of Typographic Arts at the Newberry Library, Chicago at the opening of a comprehensive show of the work of Eric Gill. Each page is headed by a colorful large letter, Perpetua Tilting Capitals, designed by Gill. The book was designed by Carroll Coleman; the body type is Joanna; two decorative letters on the title page are Floriated Capitals. All types designed by Gill; all hand-set. Frontispiece brush-drawn portrait of Eric Gill by Fr. Catich after a self-portrait wood engraving by Gill. The jacket is price clipped and has a small hole in the back panel. First Edition. quarter-cloth w/ paper boards. Fine/Good. Slim 4to.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 25x17cm, [28pp]. With initial letters printed in various colours. Printed on Curtis Rag paper, bound in quarter-teal cloth over green paste paper-covered boards, gilt title to backstrip, dustjacket of buff paper printed in black and red. Based on a talk by the calligrapher and letterer Father Catich at the opening of an Eric Gill exhibition at the Newberry Library, Chicago. It showcases some Gill faces: Joanna (body), Perpetua Titling Capitals and the decorative Floriated Capitals (in blue, on the title page). Nicely produced and presumably a limited edition, although this is not stated. Near Fine (externally Fine, some very faint foxing spots around the prelims up to and including the title page) in a Good (browning, a small ink mark and nicks around the edges with a little loss at the foot of the spine and one longer closed 6cm tear to the back) dustjacket.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Good. Congratulations! Your purchase will help save books from the landfill. All pages and cover are intact. Spine may show signs of shelf wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May include "from the library" of labels. Shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Item may be missing bundled media.…

Condition: Good. 2. Good++; Softcover; 2nd Edition; Covers are still glossy with a few light handling-marks; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75" - 11.75" tall); 2.3 lbs; White covers with a green and orange "R" illustration, and title in white lettering; 1991, Catich Gallery Publishing; 311 pages; "The Origin of the Serif: Brush Writing and Roman Letters," by Edward M. Catich.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. In pictorial tan jacket over clothbacked decorative boards, 8vo, unpag. Illustrated with two color letters designed by Gill. (minor light shelfwear, rubbing to edges, sm. closed tear to jacket at corner - jacket now in new mylar). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second Edition. cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., small, faint pencil with owner name place date and from who the book was given. the owner was a noted classics scholar. it is easily erased. no flaws or wear. clean. no other markings. no bumps, tears, creases. strong binding. a great copy.; english text.; xi-310pp., 235 figures. second edition of 1968 original. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original rubbing tipped in at rear; 13 pages with two additional pages of the inscription; 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A hard cover text volume and a matching, larger portfolio with 27 double-sided plates - one side the letters of the alphabet + ampersand and the other sides examples of various letter forms. Clean, bright, and unmarked. Blue cloth spines with marbled boards and paper cover labesl.…

8vo. and 4to. quarter blue cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, paper cover labels, later cardboard slipcase. 32 pages in book and 28 heavy leaves printed on both sides loosely inserted in 4to. portfolio. 2 volumes. Beautifully printed in red, blue and black. Minor rubbing to the marbled boards, paper cover label rubbed on the smaller text volume, else a near fine set. The portfolio contains reproductions of alphabets while the book describes the art of calligraphy and explains the plates. quarter blue cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, paper cover labels, later cardboard slipcase. Catfish Press (illustrator). …

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used Very Good. No writing or underlining.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. . SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

4to. cloth, top edge gilt, dust jacket. xii, 310+(1) pages. First edition. Jacket rubbed along spine ends, small chip to the bottom edge of the dust jacket, very minor toning to the entire jacket, else a near fine copy. This book is rapidly becoming a minor classic. Professor Catich, a noted calligrapher, has written a scholarly essay tracing the role of the serif in brush writing and in stone cutting and has accompanied his essay with many illustrations. The book is excellently designed and artfully uses green and red colored ink throughout. cloth, top edge gilt, dust jacket. Catfish Press (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Set in Joanna with Perpetua Titling Capitals and two Floriated Capitals (all types designed by Eric Gill) and printed in coulours on Curtis Rag paper. Brush-drawn portrait frontispiece by Edward Catich. Decorative paper-covered boards, predominantly grey and yellow, sage-green cloth back titled in gilt. Manilla dust-jacket (slightly frayed at head), titled in red and black. Book label of Evan Gill with remains of packagingg from the Prairie Press to him tucked in at the rear. A very ood bright copy. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 301 pages illustrations 24 cm OCLC 2578209 black cloth no dustjacket ; General contents: Introduction to coin collecting -- Collecting United States coins -- Background of American coinage -- Large and small cents -- Silver dollars -- Other regular issue copper and silver coins -- Gold coins --Commemoratives -- Mint engravers and dies -- Patterns ; FINE. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The uncommon American first edition. A very nice copy of a a typical Eric Gill offering, colophons and lettering. Fresh copy, with patterned boards, partial offset to front free end paper, pages excellent; in a protected complete dust jacket, one very short edge nick/closed, some tone to edges of the cover. [35] p. : 1 port. ; 26 cm. Note: An earlier draft of the . text was delivered by Father Catich several years ago as a talk at the opening of a comprehensive showing of the work of Eric Gill at the Newberry Library, Chicago . sponsored by the Society of Typographic Arts.Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman at the Prairie Press . all types designed by Eric Gill, and all hand-set."--Colophon. Gill, Eric, 1882-1940. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. First edition. Unpaginated, approx. 36 pages. 25 x 16.5 cm. Designed and printed by Carroll Coleman, signed by him, the two decorative letters on the title page, Floriated Capitals are types designed by Gill. Marcus McCorison's (American Antiquarian Society) copy with his book label [Marcus Allen McCorison] and original publisher's invoice to him laid-in. Orig. gray cloth spine and decorated boards. Fine in nicked dust wrapper with loss at head spine. Gill, Eric (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter green cloth with gilt spine lettering and green patterned paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. Frontispiece. (27pp). Fine/fine. This first edition of an important study is as pristine as it gets -- tight, bright. Publisher Carroll Coleman notes in rear colophon, "the large letters on each page are Perpetua Titling Capitals, and the two decorative letters on the title page are Floriated Capitals, all types designed by Eric Gill, and all hand-set." A-Z (one letter at top of each page) appear in various colors within varying color borders. Laid in is a fine glossy black-and-white 7" X 5" photograph showing Catich holding a brush and lettering a large sheet, captioned "Father E.M. Catich of Saint Ambrose College, demonstrates his views on The Origin of Serifs 25 June 1962 Rockefeller Institute, New York.".…

Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter green cloth with gilt spine lettering and green patterned paper over boards, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. Frontispiece. (27pp). Fine/fine. Outstandingly tight 'n' bright, fresh and handsome first edition of this important study. As publisher Carroll Coleman notes in the rear colophon, "the large letters on each page are Perpetua Titling Capitals, and the two decorative letters on the title page are Floriated Capitals, all types designed by Eric Gill, and all hand-set." A-Z (one letter at top of each page) appear in various colors within varying color borders. Laid in is a pristine, glossy black-and-white 7" X 5" photograph showing the author holding brush lettering a large sheet, captioned "Father E.M. Catich of Saint Ambrose College, demonstrates his views on The Origin of Serifs 25 June 1962 Rockefeller Institute, New York.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Second Edition, 1991. 310 pages. Book measures 8.5 x 11 inches. Second edition of this classic book in the field. Includes a note on letterhead to subscribers, and a small package of Father Catich's personally printed holy cards, which were original designs done by Father Catich - 11 cards measuring 2.5 x 4 inches laid into a small envelope. These were for people who pre-subscribed to the publishing of the second edition. Book is in Near Fine condition, very clean and in square tight binding. Dust jacket in Near Fine, showing faint rubbing. …

quarto, cloth in dust jacket. Second edition, hardbound issue. Second edition, hardbound issue. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xii), 310pp. St. Ambrose University, Edited by Mary W. Gilroy. Illustrated and printed with accents and capitals and headlines in green or rust or both. The serif originated with Roman inscription letters, its history and development here detailed in letter cutting in stone, and the use of the brush in shaping the Roman letterform. The author "questions accepted theories as to the serif's origin, and advances his own theory with skillful reasoning, detailed illustration, and epigraphic proof." Very fine. "Origin of the Serif is a work of Genius." Philip Hofer. A very fine copy in a very fine, clean jacket which is not price clipped.…

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good -. 8 1/2 x 11 1/8" 310 pages. limited to 1400 copies. "In this book the author questions accepted theories as to the serif's origin, and advances his own theory with skillful reasoning, detailed illustration, and epigraphic proof." shipping will be extra for this heavy book, please inquire. book looks as new, dj shows nicks to edges with a couple of small chips lacking. dj now in mylar protector. …

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. Cloth, no dj. The Catfish Press, 1968. 4to., 310 pp., profusely illus. Tipped in is a single sheet folded three times to form octavo pamphlet with sample pages, issued by the Catfish Press. The bound book is in very good condition. Some rubbing and edge wear to boards; additional light scuffs on spine. Mild foxing to fore edge. Else clean and bright. A handsome copy with publisher's pamphlet tipped in.…