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Paperback. Condition: near fine(-). First MIT Press paperback editoin. 142 pages illustrations, portrait 19 cm. Nice copy. ? Caract?res d'imprimerie Sp?cimens, Imprimerie Sp?cimens, Printing, Printing Specimens, Specimens, Type and type-founding, Type and type-founding Specimens, Zapf, Hermann, type specimens (documents Graphic Design; Typographer. Book design Printing; Language. Small edge stain, minor edge-wear and faint creasing to front wrap fold; else near fine(-) thus and apparently unread -- or very lightly read.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Clean interior with tight binding; cover lightly worn.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Minor wear & discoloration to boards, otherwise very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Blue paperback, 153pp. Wear to spine and corners, otherwise fine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. [143]pp [rubbing and edge wear to dust jacket; spine cocked] This is a revised edition of the Typophile Chap Book No. 37 first issued in 1960. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Cover is shelf worn and slightly rubbed with a crease on the bottom corner edge. The edges are worn, particularly the outer edge. Spine is creased, but binding is secure. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good- condition. First Edition. 118 pages of text. Original hardcover binding is slightly shelfworn. The leather spine label is somewhat unevenly discolored. The previous owner has handwritten the author's name and a shortened title in red and black ink. Illustrated with a frontisportrait of the author, and numerous tipped-in double-page plates. Limited edition, this one numbered 174 and signed by the author on the colophon. The text is clean and unmarked. Height: 180mm. Translated from the original German by Paul Standard. First edition in English.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Frontispiece drawing by Gi Neuert-Hoffman; many plates and illustrations, set in Linotype Optima & printed by Ludwig Oehms. Semi-stiff card covers, titled in white, slightly worn at the edges. A fine copy. A revised edition of Typophile Chap Book No.37.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1970. Blue cloth covered boards with gold spine titles; mild wear; jacket has mild edge wear and rubbing; 12mo, 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; interior is clean and unmarked; 142 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. One of 300 signed and numbered copies, duodecimo size, 118 pp. total, this volume signed by Hermann Zapf. Hermann Zapf (1918-2015) was one of the most influential typographers of the early digital age, having a career that "spanned the glory days of hot metal composition right through to the rise of the Apple Mac"; his creations continue to inspire today. Interestingly, it is Zapf's "dingbats" that may have had the biggest impact on modern communication: these formed the basis for Unicode's symbols, which in turn paved the way for the now-ubiquitous emoji. This volume signed by Zapf at the colophon, being no. 102 of the edition (both the signature and number in blue ink). ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full blue cloth over stiff cardboard, brown leather spine label with gilt lettering, the frontispiece a reproduction of a photograph of Zapf, replete with typographic designs, several being double-page; duodecimo size (7" by 4 1/2"), pagination: [1-6] 7-117, [1, colophon], this one of 300 signed/numbered copies (total English edition 700 copies; there were also 1300 copies printed in German). ___CONDITION: Better than very good: the cloth binding clean overall and without wear, all corners perfectly straight and unrubbed, a strong text block with solid hinges, the interior clean and bright, and the sole prior owner marking we see a gift inscription on the flyleaf dated "vii.62"; we would have graded this book fine except for (i) an old damp-stain at the head of the spine which has darkened the leather spine label and the cloth at the very top, and (ii) foxing to the edges of the text block. Even with its few faults, still special with Hermann Zapf's signature. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

A revised edition of the Typophile Chap Book No. 37 first issued in 1960. Set in Linotype Optima and printed in offset by Ludwig Oehms, Frankfurt a.M. Bound in blue cloth by the Ladstetter bindery, Hamburg, gilt lettering to the spine. Clear, removanle, archival protective sleeve fitted to the printed dust-jacket. 12mo, 182 x 120 mm, pp. 144. A book in Very Good condition with feint offsetting on free endpapers.

Cambridge / Mass. & London: The M.I.T. Press, 1970. Blue-black Orig.-cloth with blue dust-jacket. 142, (1) pages with a Frontispiece drawing of H. Zapf by Gi Neuert-Hoffmann and numerous type specimens and print type samples. - 18 x 11,5. * Englische Textausgabe mit 3-zeiliger handschriftlicher persönlicher Widmung und Signatur von Hermann Zapf an Dr. Helmut Presser, den damaligen Direktor des Gutenberg-Museums in Mainz.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition Thus. A fine copy in fine dustjacket of the 1970 edition by MIT Press after the firts of 1960 with a new introduction by typographer and type designer Zapf. Neatly signed by him on the title page in pencil. A lovely copy.

142 (2) Seiten, Fadenheftung, zweifarbiger OLnbd. mit goldgeprägtem Rückenlängstitel, OU., 18 x 11,5 cm. Mit vielen fotomechanischen Wiedergaben der von Hermann Zapf geschriebenen Alphabete und Schriftmuster. - In englischer Sprache. - Provenienz: Bibliothek Klaus L[.] Neumann (1933-2022; Redakteur im Bereich 'Alte Musik' des WDR, Köln; die Provenienz ergibt sich nur aus dem Fundzusammenhang). Neumann hatte den Band mutmaßlich von Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse erhalten, der Ehefrau von Hermann Zapf (Vermerk Neumanns auf dem vorderen fliegenden Vorsatzblatt: "von Gudrun in Darmstadt"). - Der Schutzumschlag schwach berieben. Gutes Exemplar.