Jack Stauffacher (108 results)

Mixed Media Product. Condition: New. A stationery set for fans of the beloved San Francisco printer San Francisco-based printer Jack Stauffacher's (1920-2017) bold experiments in letterpress expanded the ideas of wood type's formal possibilities. Born in San Mateo, California, Stauffacher began his study of printing at the age of 16 and went on to design and print outstanding books for 80 years. He was the owner and operator of Greenwood Press, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. After receiving a box of discarded wood type in 1966, Stauffacher began playing with the mismatched letterforms as a break from his daily work. His resulting typographic experiments, often featuring bold layers of letters in black, bright blue or red, are a testament to type's more expressive capabilities. Stauffacher's refined yet graphic sensibility brought him acclaim in the worlds of both traditional fine printing and modern art. Examples of his wood and metal type designs can be found in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. This set of notecards and envelopes, each pair unique, displays Stauffacher's abstract yet exquisite treatments of typography.

Condition: Good. Gallery Paule Anglim, 1990. Cover faintly rubbed/bumped/soiled/sunned, very lightly sunned along the spine; edges very faintly rubbed/bumped/sunned/soiled, bottom edge very lightly soiled at the spine, top edge lightly soiled; interior faintly age- toned throughout; binding tight; cover, edges and interior intact and clean, except where noted; due to the size/weight of this item, additional shipping charges may apply. paperback. Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Large softcover in good condition: small abrasion at upper spine, sticker residue at upper cover corner, tiny tear along edge. 79 unmarked pages, with photographs of the stone or cement inscriptions on the exterior of the old SF public library. [13oz]. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Handsomely printed softcover with its own cover flaps. Like new copy. Filled with illustrations of fine aphorisms and beautiful stone lettering.

Condition: Brand New. 20 pages. 4.84x1.77x6.34 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. In.

PF. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. Includes the prospectus which is a bit frayed on the right edge .One of 1000 copies printed.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New.

79p., wraps, illus., 9.5x11 inches, very good condition. Editor Stauffacher was one of the city's finest pressmen and book designers; this item would be amongst his last projects. The building was derelict, purposely so, to make psychological room for its new identity, and the security officer who accompanied Stauffacher hurried him in a dismissive manner.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. Gently used with NO markings in text; binding is tight. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover.Very Good. No Jacket. black cloth with spine title on paper label. 256 page illust. Limited edition of 450 copies - Book Club of California Publication No. 203.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 28 x 23.5 cm, Small quarto, 79 pp., illustrated, contents, preface, contributors, selected bibliography, index. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Fine.This is a detailed study of the bookish stone inscriptions placed around this famed library, featuring contributions from Andrea V. Grimes, Gray Brechin, Michael Harvey, Sumner Stone, Dennis Letbetter, and Leon Battista Alberti. 1000 copies.

Condition: New. In.

Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff pictorial wrappers. 79pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Fine. Tight, pristine first edition of this detailed study of the bookish stone inscriptions placed around this famed library, featuring contributions from Andrea V. Grimes, Gray Brechin, Michael Harvey, Sumner Stone, Dennis Letbetter, and Leon Battista Alberti. A lovely copy.

Hard cover. Condition: Fair. No jacket. Spine is sunned, but text is legible. Water damage inside book, visible on inside covers and endpapers, but not on pages themselves. Two very small stains on top and fore edges of text block, visible on the edges of some pages, but not covering text. Text is clean and unmarked. As is.

Softcover. Condition: VG+. Color illus. wraps; 42 pp.; 12 color plates. From the gallery exhibition held May 3 - June 2, 2007; Includes artist biographic information and list of exhibitions.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Lightly read if read at all. No markings in book. Binding is fine. 78pp.

cloth, plastic dust jacket. Book Club of California (illustrator). 8vo. cloth, plastic dust jacket. (v), 251, (3) pages. Edition limited to 450 copies. A fine copy. Writer, printer and teacher Porter Garnett (1871-1951), a native of San Francisco, was associated with the Bohemian Club and was a friend of Jack London, Dorthea Lange and Maynard Dixon among others. He founded the Laboratory Press at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh in 1922 and directed it until its closing and his retirement in 1935. The book contains selected writings by Garnett, Paul Valery and Henri Vacillon and tributes from friends, students and admirers, including Bror Zachrisson and Wilder Bentley, among others. Designed by Jack Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press, San Francisco. Typesetting by Francesca Stauffacher. Printed on Mohawk Superfine and set in Cycles types, designed by Sumner Stone. Printing by Phelps/Schaefer, Brisbane, California. Binding by Cardoza-James Binding Company, San Francisco. The title is provided by a two-color-printed paper label on the spine.

Hardcover. Unpaginated preliminaries, 83p., vignette sketch illustrations with a nice stylized one at the colophon. Hardbound in 7x4.5 inch raw-linen boards with printed paper spine label; the very first book from Jack's Greenwood Press, no. 182 of 250. The soft, tactile linen is faintly toned with small faint smudges, the printed spine label is faded to dimness and has a small chunk torn away from one corner. Boards a bit edgeworn with tiny linen chips missing from head and tail of spine; otherwise, a little fray at corner-tips. Quite clean within, with a good square textblock.

Condition: Good. 32mo., Printed Card, Very Good with minor creasing. Letterpress on fine card stock.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Jacket is worn on edges, and tanned along spine, with light smudges on back. Cover is in great condition. Binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Grey paper-covered boards with spine label, DW, landscape 8vo., 24 pages + illustrations and type specimens, including two folding plates. One of 750 numbered copies designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher from Hunt Roman and Spectrum types on Strathmore Rag paper by Davis & Warde under the supervision of Thomas C. Pears. This Copy out of series. A fine copy in a fine DW.

Soft cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 79 pps.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Book is in fine condition. Pages are clean, crisp and bright with tight binding, and protected in a mylar sleeve. A sharp copy.

PAPERBACK. Offprint. unpaginated, staple bound large octavo. "Reprinted from the visible language. This keepsake was done for the Stanley Morison Memorial Lecture series,." includes bookmark signed by the printer and booklet. tight binding, clean wraps with colorful pastedown image, clean throughout, faint tanning along the spine, Very Good+.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited. 24p, [32]. The first 24 pages includes the text followed by the type specimen pages - whereof one is a fold out plate. Very small tear in the headband. Lower portion of the dust jacket on the spine torn. Internally a fresh clean copy. Limited to 750 copies.

First edition. 62 pp. Small stain on rear cover, else very near fine in printed wrappers. Prints by Stauffacher photographed by Letbetter. SIGNED by Stauffacher on the title page.