Published by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler c. 1925, Chicago, 1925
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Original cloth boards with blind tooled lettering and rules. , Size : 4to (191mm x 280mm), Illustrated profusely with various styles of typographical fonts and image designs. All pages are clean and crisp. A very good copy.
Published by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, [Chicago], 1925
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. 528, [4], 7 p. Index. Illustrations (some with color). With Price List of Job Type Fonts, etc, issue Sept. 1925 (11 p) laid in. Catalog; 25-A. Spine states "Type That Talk". Barnhard Brothers & Spindler were type founders and manufactures and merchants to printers. They had brand offices and sales offices in nine principal cities: Chicago, Washington, Kansas City, Saint Paul, Seattle, Saint Louis, Dallas, Omaha, and Vancouver, British Columbia as well as dealers convenient to all parts of the country. This compilation is a snapshot in time (the Roaring Twenties), and a snapshot of technology. Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Front board weak.
Published by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler [ca. 1925], Chicago, 1925
Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Quarto. 528, [12] pp. Hundreds of type faces illustrated. Numerous examples of tinted printing. Publisher's deeply embossed dark blue cloth, blue endpapers and edges. Two copies of the price list of Sept., 1925, laid in. Order from laid in. Bookplate. A very good copy with only minor rubbing to extremities.