The Typophiles (30 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. One of 1000 copies printed for the Grolier Club. Bright copy, one signature on FFEP else unmarked. Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. One of 600. New York: May 14, 1950. 12mo. [74]pp. Black cloth back with gilt letters, beige paper boards printed in black and brown, various Bruce Rogers colophons on covers. Very good condition, lower edge of front cover lightly worn, lightly soiled, interior fine, ex libris R. D. Remley on front pastedown. The occasion: Bruce Rogers's 80th birthday. Remarks by Paul A. Bennet include acknowledging the contributions made by various individuals associated with printing and design. Text includes some of Roger's favorite pages, and calligraphic examples by Arnold Bank, George Salter, Paul Stanford, R. Hunter Middleton, others. With 6 sepia photographs. Edition of 600 copies, 300 for Typophile subscribers, 100 for contributors, and 200 for general sale. Typophiles Chap Book No. 24.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 74 pages Very Good No dust jacket as issued. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Stiff decorated wrappers with cover label, slender 12mo., 13, (1) pages. One of 350 copies set in Poliphilus and Blado by Donald Edick and Harry Bollinger at the Rochester Institute of Technology as Typophiles Monograph Number 30. Errata laid in correcting the Monograph number to 32. Fading to cover, else a near fine copy.…

One Page,Folded Twice. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket, As Issued. First Printing. Near Fine, with slight corner curl and small stain inside lower corner. "The occasion was a Typophile visit to greet Fred W. Goudy the day before his 77th birthday." One Page, Folded Twice to make a greeting card. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ***please read*** This keepsake is "a token of appreciation for the man 'about whom the pages tell' (and a reminder for the few who 'never heard of the man').is printed in an edition of eighty and seven copies, on paper especially hand-made by Harrison Elliott. Tex, typography and decorative material lifted from sundry sources by David Silve; and printing done at Frank Sloan's Resident Press." This copy is in an envelope affixed to a hard-back book cover that shows some corner bumps and nicks but has protected the envelope and keepsake from any wear. Also with the keepsake is a card from David Silve explaining the luncheon procedure and a copy of an article about the recognition from Publishers' Weekly dated 3 July 1948. No other marks on text - inside a plastic sleeve - my shelf location -mag-56. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. From an edition of 350 copies. A cheeky little WWII era booklet. Text is unmarked; pages are bright. Stapled binding is tight and square; the staples are starting to rust. Covers show just a little bit of wear around the corners and at the head and base of the spine. Covers are protected in the original onionskin paper dust wrap.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. Later Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Glassine cover. Tight, sound, unmarked in Very Good condition. No Signature.

Soft Cover. Condition: Acceptable. Four page pamphlet. The pages are slightly darkened with age. No tears or marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two cloth-backed volumes in dust jackets designed by Warren Chappell in slipcase. Issued as Typophile Chapbooks No. 42 and 43, printed for Typophile subscribers, the contributors and friends of Alfred A. Knopf. Some slight chips and creases to dust jacket spine ends with very minor loss (very good) in very good slipcase (some faint soiling).…

Paperback. First Edition. 3.75 x 6in. [18pp.] Publisher's string-bound wraps. FINE/AS NEW. Flawless. As pictured.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Glassine Cover. Tight, sound, unmarked in Very Good condition. No Signature.

Condition: Good. 16mo. String-bound wraps. [12 pp.] Near Fine.

Condition: Good. 16mo. String-bound wraps. [18 pp.] Very Good. Illustrations.

Condition: Good. 12mo. 410pp. Hard cover. Black and white plates. Very Good. Two volumes in a case, both with translucent dustjackets. Signed by Paul A. Bennett.

Condition: Good. 12mo. 69pp. Hard cover with translucent dustjacket. Black and white plates. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 52 pages. Number 75 of 300 copies. Typophiles Chap Book One. Book.

Condition: Good. 12mo. Stapled Wraps, 26 pp. Very Good.

Condition: Good. 12mo. 57 pp. Printed Boards, Very Good with paper label on spine slightly peeling, light rust stains on front end papers from pamphlet. Illustrations by Valenti Angelo, Warren Chappell, Fritz Kredel, Fritz Eichenberg, etc.Also present: 12 pp. Stapled pamphlet, The Typophiles' Chap Book Commentary Number 4.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. our photos, binding is solid, no wear on boards, slip case has spine wear, text is free of markings, no previous owner name, we ship quickly with tracking.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Black backram cloth, stamped in gold with a "B" and "R" from Roger's Tory typeface, (9 x 6.25 inches), unpaginated. The second production from The Typophiles. One of only 100 copies, privately printed as a tribute to Bruce Rogers on the occassion of a welcome home dinner in his honor on October 30, 1935. Signatures include "An Open Letter" by Frederic W. Goudy and signed by him; an original wood engraving signed by Charles W. Smith; illustrations by Valenti Angelo and W.A. Dwiggins; and a five-page tribute by Christopher Morley written especially for this book, as well as signatures of Edward F. Stevens and Ernest Knauffh. Includes the two-leaf signature from Richard Ellis laid-in, which arrived too late to be bound in. In total there are individual contributions from seven artists, fifteen writers, and twenty-six printers. An exceptionally clean, bright and tight copy. Signed by Author(s).…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Green cloth with leather title labels on spine and front board, (8.75 x 5.75 inches), unpaginated. The first Typophiles production. One of only 60 copies. SIGNED by 14 contributors, plus inscribed by Goudy to Ernest Trotter at the limitation page. Signers include Bruce Rogers at verso of title page, Paul A. Bennett and John Archer at end of Neither Preface of Colophon, John S. Fass, Sol. Hess, Earl H. Emmons, J. Thompson Willing, L.T. White, John Clyde Oswald, Eney Jr., Alfred Duhman, Robert Stumpf, Fuhrmaun, Stanley Patuo. A collection of seventeen signature by seventeen different presses, including the Press of the Woolly Whale, the Harbor Press, and the Golden Hind Press. The title page was designed by Bruce Rogers with ornaments and printed in brown and green. Goudy was a master type designer, developing over one hundred fonts. Laid-in is a ALS (Autograph Letter Signed) by Goudy handwritten in ink on his stationary. Partially unopened, an exceptionally clean, bright, and tight copy showing expected toning to spine lable. A remarkable collection of fine press printing along with autographs from the masters of the printing arts. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Good. 16mo. Stapled wraps. [16 pp.] Glassine Good with minor tears, else Very Good. Red & black ink. Illustrations. Text in Japanese, German & English.

Typophile Chapbook 60. One of an edition limited to 850 copies (of which 200 were for the Minnesota Center for Book Arts) designed by Abe Lerner and printed by The Stinehour Press. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and rules to the upper board and spine. 12mo., 185 x 120 mm, pp. [1-6] 7-94 [95-96]. A book in Fine condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dustjacket included. First Edition. Hardback with Dust Jacket.Slight wear to corners and edges. Slight dust soiling. Otherwise Tight, sound, unmarked in Very Good condition in Very Good condition Dust Jacket. No Signature.

Handmade Paper Wrappers. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. No date ( printed sometime during WWII ). One of an unnumbered edition of 350 copies published as a not-so-playful poke at America's enemies during WWII. The original glassine dustjacket has 2 tiny closed tears at spine tips. Great drawings of Hitler and Tojo, and a quite scarce Typophiles item. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. First Edition. The preface states the book to be a reproduction of a letter sent by Beatrice Warde to Paul Bennett of the Typophiles, reproduced here for donors and members. 4.5 x 7in. [8pp.] 4 illustrations by Mechtild Nawiasky for Beatrice Warde. Publisher's cloth boards with morocco title label in gilt. FINE/AS NEW. A flawless copy. As pictured.…

The Twenty-Sixth Chap Book in the Typophile Series: The Fell Types. One of an edition limited to 475 copies: 325 for subscribers and contributors, and 150 for general sale. Designed and printed at the University Press, Oxford, by Charles Batey, Printer to the University, and bound by J.F. Tapley, New York. Brown cloth with blind stamped decoration to the upper board and gilt lettering to the spine. 12mo., 185 x 120 mm, pp. [1-4] 5-49 [50-52, including the colophon] illustrated with 4-line Pica Capitals Only, French Canon Roman, and French Canon Italic alphabets, selections of woodcut initials, type flowers and music type of the 17th and 18th centuries, and including an Extract from the Will of John Fell. A book in Very Good condition. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Not paginated (but just over 100 leaves), frontispiece portrait, 8vo (9 x 6 in.), black buckram with the gilt stylized "BR" initials (reminiscent of Bruce Rogers's Fra Luca di Pacioli) spanning across the cover panels, gilt spine title. A festschrift celebrating Bruce Rogers's return to the US after a stint in England (during which period he designed such monuments of twentieth-century fine printing as The Odyssey and the Oxford Lectern Bible). The volume is made up of 30 different signatures (several unopened) and inserts on Rogers and other typographic subjects, individually written and designed by many of his colleagues and fellow luminaries in the type design, private press and printing worlds during the second quarter of the 20th century. Printed on different papers, the signatures include a few tip-ins, including a bookplate designed by Rogers for William Reydel, a couple are signed (e.g., Frederic Goudy) and some are printed in different color inks. Other contributors include Rudolph Ruzicka, Paul A. Bennett, W. A. Dwiggins, John Fass/Village Press, Valenti Angelo, Pynson Printers, Mergenthaler Linotype, Frederic Melcher/Lakeside Press, Philip C. Duschnes, Edna Beilenson, Melbert Cary, Joseph Blumenthal, Paul Johnston, and Lanston Monotype. Richard Ellis's contribution to the volume made it too late to the binder and is thus not present. A wonderful salute to one of the monumental figures in twentieth-century book and type design. One of the most desirable and scarce publications relating to Rogers. The second publication of The Typophiles, this copy being no. 10 of only 100 copies produced. A fine copy with fresh endpapers. Rathé, Bibliography, item B.…

Portfolio with 6 prints by The Typophiles. 23 : 15,5 cm. With 6 booklets. Original cardboard portfolio. Portfolio of the Typophiles for the dinner party given for the british book-designer and author Beatrice Ward how wrote under the pseudonym of Paul Beaujon. There were published only very few portfolios of this type, of this then young society of book-designers, authors and book-lovers, under the leadership of Pau. A. Bennett. They were all designed and produced by and for the members of the club. Contains: Paul A. Bennett Greetings - Paul Beujon Betrice Warde - The battle of the Century Beaujon verses Typophiles - Beatrice L. Warde Printing should be invisible - Stags and a few Dears A Souvenir - Alicis Paul Beaujon A portriat of him. - Very rare.…

New York, The Typophiles, 1952. Blindgestempeld linnen. vi, 198 p. Gedrukt in rood en zwart in 700 exemplaren onder twee imprints. 1e druk. Rug verkleurd. Zelf-introducties van de drie belangrijkste Engelse privé-persen in mooie vormgeving, een interessante collectie. Dit is een van 400 exemplaren gedrukt voor The Typophiles. Op de binnenkant van de band zien we de handtekening (als altijd in potlood) van een van de meest prominente Typophiles, J[an]. van Krimpen.…