623 pp. expansive volume on American typefaces produced by the San Francisco outpost of the noted Keystone type foundry, together with a catalogue of printing equipment including type case stands, make-up tables, galley racks, presses, newspaper presses, paper cutters, binding machines, and stitchers. Profusely illustrated throughout with woodcut borders, text..... More

Bratislava: Odborné učilišťe štátnych pracovných záloh číslo 15, 1955. Large octavo (25 × 17 cm). Original embossed beige cloth; ca. 200 leaves of text to rectos. Title beginning to detach; else very good. Scarce and very appealing Slovak typographic specimen book, published by a state-run trade school in Bratislava, evidently..... More

1927. Prague: R. Rejman, 1927. Small octavo (16 × 11.4 cm). Original decorative wrappers; [40] leaves. A very good copy. Scarce collection of good-natured, but witty parodies of contemporary Czech political life, including the communists, fascists, republicans, workers and bourgeois, as well as leading figures of the Czech avant-garde, such..... More

Krakow: Gebethner i Wolff (Drukarna "Czasu"), 1922. Octavo (22.3 × 15.2 cm). Original printed wrappers; [4], 3-41 pp. Very good or better. Fine copy of this volume of futurist poems by Tytus Czyżewski (1880-1945), the Polish painter, Futurist poet, playwright, and Colorist. In 1917, together with the brothers Zbigniew and..... More

Unpaginated (12 pp. and five laid in plates, four with original tissue paper overlay) volume from the Belgian printer containing a brief essay on his thoughts on the printing of art, followed examples of various types of reproductions, or "Spécimens de Différents Procédés de Reproduction", including an etching after Bruegel..... More

Prague: F. Svoboda, 1926. Octavo (20 × 15.5 cm). Original typographically illustrated wrappers; 108, [4] pp. About very good; wrappers lightly discolored and worn to edges. Appealing understated typographic design for this Czech translation of Ivanov's adventure novella, first published in 1925. Ivanov (1895-1963) was a member of the Serapion..... More

Kiev: self-published (Kyiv-Druk), 1927. Large oblong octavo (17 × 26 cm). Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards, not preserving original decorative wrappers; 63, [1] pp. Light moisture stains to leaves; text evenly toned due to stock; good or better. Scarce commercially published album intended as a guide for lettering of..... More

Warsaw: Franciszka Kwiatkowska, 1924. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers with cover and typography design by Mieczysław Szczuka; 24 pp. Wrappers very lightly smudged; else very good or better. Single issue of the important Polish modernist and avant-garde literary and political journal, published from July 1923 to..... More

Warsaw: Franciszka Kwiatkowska, 1924. Octavo (25 × 17.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers with cover and typography design by Mieczysław Szczuka; 24 pp. Very good. Single issue of the important Polish modernist and avant-garde literary and political journal, published from July 1923 to September 1924. "Nowa kultura" was a continuation..... More

Unpaginated (circa 18 pp.) sample from the prominent French printer, displaying samples of his capabilities in phototype or photolithography printing, including work produced for postcards, souvenir viewbooks, trade catalogues, menus, and other items, including images of landscape views, building façades, decorative tiles, sculpture, a church interior, and light fixtures. Folio..... More

Unpaginated (circa 36 pp.) promotional history of the French paper manufacturer who specialized in producing cigarette papers, with text in French, English, and Spanish, walking through the entire paper production process ,from the raw materials to pulp, all the way through to the finished product, with four-page double-fold at the..... More

Prague: Odeon, 1927-1928. Octavo (ca. 23 × 18 cm). Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards; decorative leather spine labels; preserving all front and rear wrappers; approx. 32–40 pp. per issue. Numerous photographs and illustrations. Wrappers resized with very slight loss to right and lower margin; else very good. “The most..... More