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Lot of Five Typography Books, Including Three Frederic Goudy Titles.... (Total: 5 Items)
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Description
Lot of Five Typography Books, Including Three Frederic Goudy Titles.Titles include: Oliver Simon and Julius Rodenberg. Printing of To-Day, An Illustrated Survey of Post-war Typography in Europe and the United States. London/New York: Peter Davies Limited/Harper and Brothers, 1928. First edition. Large quarto. Introduction by Aldous Huxley. Printed at the Curwen Press. Very good in chipped dust jacket. [and:] Boyd Lee Spahr. Philadelphia, Its Historic Position as a Publishing Center. Philadelphia: [National Publishing Company], 1952. Edition limited to 200 copies, of which this is number 137. Small octavo. Very good in glassine wrappers. [and:] Vrest Orton. Goudy, Master of Letters. Chicago: The Black Cat Press, 1939. First edition. Octavo. Introduction by Frederic W. Goudy. Limited to 500 copies. Very good condition. [and:] Frederic W. Goudy. The Story of Village Type, By Its Designer Frederic W. Goudy. New York: The Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933. Special edition limited to 450 copies. Very good. [and:] Frederic W. Goudy. Typologia, Studies in Type Design & Type Making with Comments on the Invention of Typography, The First Types, Legibility and Fine Printing. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1940. First edition. Tall octavo. Very good in dust jacket.
Auction Info
2008 October Grand Format Rare Books Auction #684 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
October, 2008
16th-18th
Thursday-Saturday
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