Flader Louis Ed (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Contains the official report of the Sixty-Second Annual Convention of the American Photoengravers Assiociation, October 1958. Text and images are unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are lightly age toned. Binding is sturdy; the spine is creased and there is a chip in the paper at the head of the spine. Covers show some light edgewear and the lower corner of the back cover is creased. 388pp.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Photographic marketing, merchandising monthly magazine published by photo-engravers association, oversized, colour promotion with features of the bride's home, selling art education, 1938 fashions for the bride and bridegroom, catalogs attract students, stapled 22pps. Photograph in b/w of new Golden Gate Bridge with almost no cars in sight by Will Connell, as he describes his technique. Uncommon. …

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Pictorial grey paper binding rubbed at extremities and slightly cocked; spine ends & corners abraded; backstrip browned; covers soiled; owner's named inked on front cover; hinges & several points in textblock cracked; bookplate residue on front endpaper; leaf edges foxed; some insect predation to fore-edge of rear cover & last few leaves. ; In wraps; many showy b&w, color illustrations. ; 8vo; 256 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4to in dark brown faux leather, eagle device on the front board in red and white, spine title in gilt. Front hinge cracked and rear hinge starting, but binding still firm; corners, joints and spine ends heavily rubbed; text block and illustrations fresh and vibrant.

Tall thick 4to. 9.5 x 12.5 x 3 in. 488 pp. With 100's of colour plates, colour printing samples, sample pages, sample papers, black & white photogravures, and more. Victorian revival publisher's embossed simulated padded leather oilcloth binding, with bald eagle in red & white on front cover, t.e.g. (slight rubbing, very slight edgewear to head of spine), still a remarkably tight NF copy of this large oversize catalogue, from the library of Ursel Colin Narver (1903-1993), presented to him by West Coast Engraving Co., Portland, Oregon as manager at the time, and later manager of the Oregon Grange Bulletin, as well as co-publisher of Better Fruit Magazine until his retirement in 1986. First edition of what many consider to be one of the best printing sample books of the Jazz Age, containing hundreds of inserted samples from the best printers across the United States, Canada, England, France, and Germany. The editor begins with a lovely colour plate on tissue of the Santa Barbara Mission for John Henry Nash in San Francisco, and then includes samples of printing and colour plates by Coles Phillips, Thomas Webb for the fashion house Hickey-Freeman Co., a line-etching on zinc of Abraham Lincoln, a stunning Stark Davis illustration of a Lincoln Motor Car Limousine, a splendid ad for Miss Tokio Hosiery, step-by-step illustrations of how illustrations are etched, photographed, blocked, printed, a stunning R.F. Heinrich illustration in five colors, embossed colour printing for Brigdens Limited Linoleum Rugs, a superb colour plate by James Daugherty for the frontispiece in Drake's Quest and so many others. Also included are articles by James Montgomery Flagg, Gilbert Grosvenor, Frederick Corley, Adolph Zuckor, and many other luminaries of the 1920s. …

4to. 63, [1] pp. Numerous plates, illustrations, colour illustrations, colour-register, photo illustrations. Colour-illustrated flexible covers, Art Deco zig-zag cover art (minor scuffing, edgewear, neatly rebacked), still VG copy, from the library of Bill High, w/ former ownership marking on front cover. First edition, thus, of this exceedingly scarce handbook extracted from "Achievement in Photo-Engraving" (1927), considered to by many to be one of the best printing sample books of the Jazz Age. Flader has specifically streamlined the selections of chapters, and illustrations from the massive work offering step-by-step illustrations of how photo-engravings are etched, photographed, blocked, printed, together with instructions on uses of colour and colour balance. The American Photo-Engravers Association specifically contracted with assorted Photo-Engraving printers across the country to issue these in various locales. Worldcat locates 9 copies (NYHSL, Grolier, Newberry, Phil. Mus. of Art, U So. Carolina, SMU, State Lib. Victoria, SFPL, & Victoria & Albert).…

hardcover. Condition: very good. Chicago, American Photo-Engravers Association 1927. Thick quarto moulded mock leather; hundreds of plates in colour and black and white, some embossed, on a variety of papers. Signs of use but nothing drastic. American commercial printing and graphic art at its peak; a self composed hymn to photo-engraving, which gave birth to advertising art according to the prefatory note. And much like virgin mothers, photo-engraving was soon to be ancient history. *This item might cost more to post than quoted by abe. …