Book Typefaces Illustrated Examples Text by Cowell (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: With All Faults (W.A.F.). Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. 74 pages. No dustjacket. A really SHABBY/worn copy with discolouring and fading to both boards and spine, front outer hinge 80%b split but book is ring-bound under spine cover so binding sound. Fraying to spine-ends, corners and lower opening edges. A small fray to top front and rear cover a little scuffed. Owner's name to plate on inner frotn boards , a numbered edition No. 4505. prelims and pages are sound with moderate usage marks. A working copy.

Spiral Bound. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st. Edition. A clean, tight copy in a worn dust wrapper, which has closed tears and a little loss. No insc. 74pp. Numbered on a bookplate stuck to the front pastedown. (no 3177 of an unspecified run). Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Condition: Good. Original pictorial boards with spiral binding, dust jacket, illustrations, small 4to. Numbered edition, this is number 1345.

1952 1ST COMPANY BOOK PLATE No 697 OF UNSPECIFIED LTD EDITION OWNERS NAME BLANK RING BINDING O/W VG/VG.

No. 1555 of an unspecified print run. 4to, (253mm), [5],74p with 15 added supplementary leaves, illustrations include examples of work by Frederick Gore, Rudolf Koch, and Eduardo Paolozzi. Together with Supplementary sheets (1954), Second supplement to. (1959), 32p; and A third supplement. (1960),16p. Original grey cloth overprinted in black and colours, dustjacket frayed, a little soiled and with a large piece torn from the backstrip and front at the tail; and original colour-printed stiff wrappers. The sheets of the first supplement have been bound in as noted above, a note in the wrapper for these states that 'a comb is provided so that they can easily be inserted into the wire binding.

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Near fine in a very good indeed, slightly used and shelf worn dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Printed in several colours, typefaces usually being shown in the 30pt size. Ring-bound decorative printed cloth. Dust-jacket just slightly chipped at head of spine. A very good copy. Designed by John Lewis. The covers printed by offset lithography on white book cloth from seahorse designs drawn on Plastocowell. Most attractive.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Ring-bound decorative printed cloth. Dust jacket is well worn with a number of tears and two missing pieces. First limited edition, number 2491. Book.

24,5x20,5 cm. V, (1), 74 pp. Illustrated. Ring-bound decorative printed cloth. A very good copy.

Critic and writer Herbert Read's copy, numbered and presented to him probably by the book's distributor, Faber and Faber. Illustrated cloth covered boards 'printed by offset lithography on white book cloth', internally spiral bound and printed to a very high standard on 'two-sheet ivorex board'. Dustjacket in good condition, not price-clipped, old paper repairs to verso, otherwise invisible when the book is shown. On the front pastedown a red 'Labore et Constantia' bookplate printed specially for this volume: 'This copy of A Book of Type-faces belongs to [manuscript] Herbert Read. [print] It is numbered [manuscript] 195'. Fabers distributed the book and had a longstanding connection with Read who was, by the early 1950s, a leading cultural critic and taste-maker in the United Kingdom. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.