Books - "history"
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Introduction to Typography
8vo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1969
KEYWORDS: typography introduction printing history type bibliography
Tyep: The Secret History of Letters
Super 8vo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: I. B. Tauris 2006
KEYWORDS: type typography history letter form book
The Origin of English Surnames
8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1984
KEYWORDS: English language surnames origin etymology dictionary classification philology social history genealogy
Introduction to Printing: The Craft of Letterpress
8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1968
KEYWORDS: printing book history letterpress machine press printer bibliography hand book
Caxton in Focus: The Beginning of Printing in England
Super 8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The British Library 1982
KEYWORDS: William Caxton incunabula printing history England letterpress criticism bibliography
Publishing and Bookselling: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Ex-library. 8vo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Jonathan Cape 1949
KEYWORDS: book history bookselling selling publishing bibliography trade booksellers classical medieval renaissance modern
Book Typography 1815-1965 in Europe and the United States
Super 8vo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Ernest Benn 1966
KEYWORDS: book history typography type letterpress machine press printing letter form book arts design
An Approach to Type
Super 8vo hardcover (VG-), tearing to joints, in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Blandford Press 1949
KEYWORDS: typography type book history book arts design bibliography printing
Just my Type: A book about fonts
8vo hardcover (VG+) d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Profile Books 2010
KEYWORDS: typography type letter form history book arts design 21st century
Time, Taste and Furniture
8vo hardcover (VG-) lacking d/w; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Richards Press 1949
KEYWORDS: furniture history home house interior design antiques taste
Type for Print or what the beginner should know about typefounding, letter design, and type faces
Sm 8vo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: J. Whitaker & Sons 1939
KEYWORDS: type typography typefounding founding letter form book arts design history
Type for Print or what the beginner should know about typefounding, letter design, and type faces
8vo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: J. Whitaker & Sons 1936
KEYWORDS: type typography typefounding founding letter form book arts design history
The American Children of Krsna: A Study of the Hare Krsna Movement
Super 8vo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1976
KEYWORDS: Hare Krishna Krsna culture cultural anthropology social history customs
Classical Islam: A sourcebook of religious literature
Super 8vo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Routledge 2003
KEYWORDS: Islamic literature classical history criticism sourcebook
The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism
Super 8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1975
KEYWORDS: Zoroastrianism Iran classical ancient religion prophet religious history
Modern Book Design
8vo softcover (G+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Logmans, Green and Co, 1951
KEYWORDS: book history book arts design printing fine printing revival
The Book-Hunter, etc
REBACKED, octavo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: William Blackwood and Sons 1885
KEYWORDS: book collecting collectors literature hobbies history historical
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby: Revealer of Spiritual Healing to This Age
Sm octavo softcover (VG) underlining in ink throughout; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: DeVorss & Co 1984
KEYWORDS: biography biographies memoir Phineas Parkhurst Quimby history
A Ritual and Illustrations of Freemasonry, Accompanied by Numerous Engravings and a Key to the Phi Beta Kappa
Sm octavo hardcover (VG) some foxing to pages; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: W Reeves N/D
KEYWORDS: freemasons freemasonry masonic secret societies rituals phi beta kappa history
The Life Histories of New Zealand Birds
Super 8vo, green cl bds, gilt lettering to spine & gilt bird stamp to front board, top edge stained (?) blue, frontis., xvi + 162 pp., plates, VG (sl scuffing to bds, light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems, light stanning/soiling & foxing to pg edges & eps/prelims/terminals, moderate foxing throughout), in d/w, G+ (moderate tanning & soiling, 2 large 4cm open tears to front cover, 2 small 2cm open tears to rear cover, moderate bruising to edges & extrems with moderate chipping).
PUBLISHER: The Search Publishing Co. 1932
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history wildlife birds environment life zoology