Siegel, RitaSue
AMERICAN GRAPHIC DESIGNERS: Thirty Years of Design Imagery
NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1984

Quarto. 141 pp; profuse color & b/w illustrations. Paperback. VG, bottom corner of front cover creased, light wear to extremities.
Inventory number #011978

Johnston, Alastair
ALPHABETS TO ORDER: The Literature of Nineteenth-Century Typefounders' Specimens
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2000

Quarto. 213 pp; 41 b/w illustrations; appendices; glossary; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; jacket bright, with no wear.
Inventory number #011973

Haworth-Booth, Mark
E. MCKNIGHT KAUFFER: A Designer and His Public
London: Gordon Fraser, 1979

Quarto. 136 pp; b/w & color illustrations; bibliography; checklist of published works; index to biography. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, small abraded area on front free endpaper from price sticker removal, black remainder mark on top edge; jacket lightly chipped at top of spine & upper corner. Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954) was an American-born artist noted for his avant garde graphic design and poster art, especially in Britain.
Inventory number #011972

Lupton, Ellen & J. Abbott Miller
DESIGN, WRITING, RESEARCH: Writing on Graphic Design
NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996

Quarto. 211 pp; profuse illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. A new copy.
Inventory number #011970

Artists Guild, Inc.
ARTISTS GUILD ANNUAL. A Yearly Exhibit in Book Form of Work by Members of the Artists Guild of New York
NY: The Artists Guild, 1939

World's Fair edition. Quarto. 111 pp; profuse b/w illustrations; index. Black cloth. VG, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #011969

Cox, Warren E., editor
GRAPHIC ARTS
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, 1936

Quarto. xix, 318 pp; color frontispiece, 5 color & numerous b/w illustrations; bibliographies. Cloth, no jacket. VG.
Inventory number #011968

Hawkins, Arthur, editor
THE ART DIRECTOR AT WORK: How 15 Medal-winning Exhibits were Conceived and Executed
NY: Hastings House, 1959

Quarto. 72 pp; profuse b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket has a 1-in. triangular chip at top of spine, spine lettering faded.
Inventory number #011965

Ballinger, Raymond A.
LAYOUT AND GRAPHIC DESIGN
NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970

Second printing. Quarto. 96 pp; numerous b/w illustrations; index. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; 1/4 in. chip at top of jacket spine.
Inventory number #011962

Weill, Alain
THE POSTER: A Worldwide Survey and History
Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1985

First American edition. Stout quarto. 422 pp; 300 color & over 350 b/w illustrations; bibliography; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; price-clipped jacket has faded spine. Excellent comprehensive survey of posters by the former curator of the Paris Poster Museum.
Inventory number #011959

Smeijers, Fred
COUNTERPUNCH: Making Type in the 16th Century, Designing Typefaces Now
London: Hyphen Press, 1997

Octavo. 191 pp; b/w illustrations; literature; index. Paperback with French flaps. Near Fiine, small chip at bottom edge of back cover. This book provides a close-up view of the work of 16th-century French and Flemish punchcutters.
Inventory number #011957

Heller, Steven & Louise Fili
BRITISH MODERN: Graphic Design Between the Wars
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998

Square octavo. 132 pp; profusely illustrated with color & b/w illustrations; bibliography. Paperback. Near Fine. The twenties, thirties, and early forties witnessed a remarkable surge of creative activity in British graphic arts and commercial design. Starting with posters for London's Underground, British designers embraced artistic developments taking place in America, France, and Germany, including Cubism, Futurism, and Vorticism.
Inventory number #011956

Pevsner, Nikolaus
PIONEERS OF MODERN DESIGN from William Morris to Walter Gropius
NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1949

Second edition. Quarto. 151 pp; 130 b/w illustrations; table of names and dates; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, a clean, unmarked copy; top edge of jacket chipped, backstrip darkened, jacket lightly soiled.
Inventory number #011955

Tarr, John C.
LETTERING: A Source Book of Roman Alphabets
London: Crosby Lockwood & Son, 1951

First edition. Quarto. 63 pp; fully illustrated. Gilt-lettered cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG
Inventory number #011954

Friend, Leon & Joseph Hefter
GRAPHIC DESIGN: A Library of Old and New Masters in the Graphic Arts
NY: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill, 1936

Quarto. 407 pp; profusely illustrated; bibliography; index. Original tan cloth with brown-stamped lettering. VG-, a clean, unmarked copy; top & bottom of spine & corners starting to fray, covers lightly soiled, two small black ink spots on front cover. A well-designed book covering lettering, printing, reproductive arts, photography, the book, advertising art, the poster, and art education.
Inventory number #011953

Kepes, Gyorgy et al
GRAPHIC FORMS: The Arts as Related to the Book
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949

Octavo. 128 pp; section of b/w illustrations. Two-tone cloth with dustjacket. VG/VG
Inventory number #011952

WILLEM SANDBERG From the Netherlands: Typographer, Designer: Books, Posters and Catalogues
NY: Center for Books Arts, 1988

Square octavo. 31 pp; b/w illustrations. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #011907

Middleton, Robert Hunter
ROBERT HUNTER MIDDLETON: The Man and His Letters: Eight Essays on His Life and Career
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1985

Octavo. 100 pp; b/w illustrations; index. Paper-covered patterned boards with cloth spine in dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy. Four-page prospectus laid in.
Inventory number #011904

Wallace, C.E.
COMMERCIAL ART
NY: Whittlesey House, 1939

Second edition, second printing. Octavo. ix, 236 pp; 61 full-page color & b/w plates, 133 b/w & color illustrations; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/VG, small chip at bottom edge of front panel, jacket edges lightly chipped. From the library of Theodore M. Edison, youngest son of Thomas Alva Edison.
Inventory number #011902

Brattinga, Pieter
PLANNING FOR INDUSTRY, ART & EDUCATION
NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1970

First American edition. Quarto. 191 pp; over 150 b/w & color illustrations. White cloth with black spine titles & embossed design on cover with dustjacket. Fine/Near Fine.
Inventory number #011901

Heller, Steven & Karen Pomeroy
DESIGNING WITH ILLUSTRATION
NY: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990

Quarto. 224 pp; more than 200 color & b/w illustrations; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Near Fine/Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #011900