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A Biographical History of the Judges of Nova Scotia 1754-2004. Illustrated & with notes on some Nova Scotia Court Houses. First Edition in dustjacket

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Judges of Nova Scotia / Gaspereau Press, 2004, ISBN:0973696907 : 2004

Seller ID: 104621

ISBN-13: 9780973696905

HALIBURTON, Charles E., Justice. A Biographical History of the Judges of Nova Scotia 1754-2004. Illustrated & with notes on some Nova Scotia Court Houses. Compiled & Edited by Justice Charles E. Haliburton. "Published by the Judges of Nova Scotia" / "Printed & bound in Kentville, Nova Scotia", MMIV.[2004]. First Edition. "Typography by Andrew Steeves. Printed, Smyth-sewn, & bound at Gaspereau Press, Kentville, Nova Scotia". Pp (12),13-486,(2). M any illustrations (including three in colour) in the text. 8vo, black cloth, silver lettering to spine. ...
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A Story as Sharp as a Knife. The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World. First Folio Edition

By: BRINGHURST, Robert

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Folio Society : 2015

Seller ID: 81413

BRINGHURST, Robert. A Story as Sharp as a Knife. The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World. Introduced by Margaret Atwood. Illustrated by Don Yeomans. London : The Folio Society, 2015. First Folio Edition. Printed in Germany. Pp (4),v-xxi,(5),3-534,(2). Illustrated throughout with photos (both colour and b&w), maps and the art of Yeomans. 8vo (164 x 252 mm), art-illustrated light brown cloth, with black lettering to spine. Robert Bringhurst, O.C. (b. October 16, 1946, Los Angeles). Don Yeomans (b. 1958, Prince Rupert, British Columbia). Fist published by the University of ...
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Art of the Printed Book 1455-1955 : Masterpieces of Typography Through FiveCenturies from the Collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. W ith an Essay by Joseph Blumenthal.

By: BLUMENTHAL, Joseph.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Pierpont Morgan Library / David R. Godine, New York / Boston, 1973, ISBN:0879230827

Seller ID: 88986

BLUMENTHAL, Joseph. Art of the Printed Book 1455-1955 : Masterpieces of Typography Through Five Centuries from the Collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. With an Essay by Joseph Blumenthal. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library / Boston : David R. Godine, 1973. Pp (2),[i]-xiv,1-192,(4). Illustrated (125 full-page black-and-white). Folio, black cloth spine, brown cloth boards, gilt anchor to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Bookplate, else very good in nicked, unclipped duatjacket. 45.00
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Biographical History of the Judges of Nova Scotia 1754-2004. Illustrated & with notes on some Nova Scotia Court Houses

By: HALIBURTON, Charles E.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Judges of Nova Scotia / Gaspereau Press, 2004, ISBN:0973696907

Seller ID: 108367

HALIBURTON, Charles E., Justice. A Biographical History of the Judges of Nova Scotia 1754-2004. Illustrated & with notes on some Nova Scotia Court Houses. Compiled & Edited by Justice Charles E. Haliburton. "Published by the Judges of Nova Scotia" / "Printed & bound in Kentville, Nova Scotia", MMIV.[2004]. First Edition. "Typography by Andrew Steeves. Printed, Smyth-sewn, & bound at Gaspereau Press, Kentville, Nova Scotia". Pp (12),13-486,(2). M any illustrations (including three in colour) in the text. 8vo, black cloth, silver lettering to spine. Contents : Foreword. 1...
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Bradbury Thompson : The Art of Graphic Design. First Edition, dustjacket.

By: THOMPSON, Bradbury.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1988, ISBN:0300043015

Seller ID: 113386

THOMPSON, Bradbury. Bradbury Thompson : The Art of Graphic Design. With contributions by noteworthy designers, critics, and art historians. New Haven and London : Yale University Press, 1988. First Printing. Pp. (7),viii-xii,[1]-218,(2). Illustrated in colour. 4to, slate cloth with gilt decoration to front board, gilt lettering to spine. Light spotting to top edge, else a very good copy in crisp dustjacket. 75.00 With an appreciation by J. CarterBrown and a foreword by Alvin Eisenman. "Bradbury Thompson is one of the m ost important graphic designers of the twentieth century. The art direc...
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Colonial Printer. Second edition, revised and enlarged

By: WROTH, Lawrence C.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine , 1938,

Seller ID: 84852

WROTH, Lawrence C. The Colonial Printer. Portland, Maine : The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1938. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Pp (2),[i]-xxiv,[1]-368,(6),+ 30 plates. Index. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine,top edge mottled blue. Contents : I. Introduction. II. The first presses o f the colonies. III. The colonial printing house. IV. The colonial printingpress. V. Type and type founding of the colonial period. VI. Printing ink. VII. The paper of the colonies. VIII. The journeymen and apprentices. IX. General conditions of the trade. X. Bookbinding in colonial America. XI . Th...
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Counterblast. First British Edition in dust jacket.

By: McLUHAN, Marshall PARKER, Harley, designed

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Rapp + Whiting Ltd, London, 1969, : 1969

Seller ID: 8543

McLUHAN, Marshall. Counterblast. London : Rapp + Whiting Ltd, (1968). First British Edition. "Printed in Great Britain by The Pitman Press". Pp (4),5-143,(1). 8vo (136 x 210 mm), purple cloth, with silver lettering to spine. Herbert Marshall McLuhan, C.C. (b. July 21, 1911, Edmonton, Alberta – d, December 31, 1980, Toronto) was working in Toronto at the time of publication. Harley Parker (b. April 13, 1915, Fort William, Ontario – March 3, 1992, Vancouver). Book design by Harley Parker including printing in several colours. First published a limited edition handmade 'zine' in 195...
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Counterblast. First Canadian Trade Edition in dustjacket.

By: McLUHAN, Marshall PARKER, Harley, design

Price: $40.00

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto / Montreal , 1969, : 1969

Seller ID: 27391

McLUHAN, Marshall. Counterblast. Toronto / Montreal : McClelland and Stewart Limited, (1969). First Canadian Trade Edition. "Manufactured in the United States of America". Pp (4),5-143,(1). 8vo (143 x 208 mm), black cloth, with silver & metallic purple lettering to spine. Spadoni and Donnelly 2118. Herbert Marshall McLuhan, C.C. (b. July 21, 1911, Edmonton, Alberta – d, December 31, 1980, Toronto) was working in Toronto at the time of publication. Harley Parker (b. April 13, 1915, Fort William, Ontario – March 3, 1992, Vancouver). Book design by Harley Parker including printing...
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du chiffre

By: PEIGNOT, Jérome

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Jacques Damase Éditeur, Paris, 1982,

Seller ID: 83906

PEIGNOT, Jérome. “du chiffre.” (Paris) : Jacques Damase Éditeur, (1982). Pp1-223,(1). Illustrated. 4to, illustrated laminated green card covers, Fren ch flaps. A book on the typography of numbers. Text in French. Top margin browned, laminate starting to peel, else very good. 40.00
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Four Minutes to Midnight. Issue Eight.

By: Four Minutes to Midnight

Price: $40.00

Publisher: 23:56, Montreal, 2006, : 2006

Seller ID: 95617

(Four Minutes to Midnight). Four Minutes to Midnight. Issue Eight. [Montreal] : 23:56, (December 2006). Pp (8),9-143,(1). Illustrated throughout. 12mo, art-illustrated cardcovers, with black & white lettering to red spine. “Four Minutes to Midnight is a visceral reaction to the encounters between: typography and language, language and culture, culture and politics, politics and fear, fear and love, love and sex, sex and death. Between death and memory, memory and the printed page. In the wake of our sadness, joy, anger and hope. This issue is dedicated to the birds… True to the expansive def...
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Funniest Book in Newfoundland

By: STANDISH, James T.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: 0,

Seller ID: 11647

STANDISH, James T. The Funniest Book in Newfoundland..pl.: Jester Enterprises Limited, n.d. [1980s]. Pp (8), 1-101, (3). Illustrated. 8vo, card covers. A masterly combination of bad typography and terrible jokes, (lewd, crude and otherwise), with the occasional good one slipped in. The inane is not forgotten, e.g.: I knew John Cabot When he didn't have a dollar, He used the wart t'was on his neck To button up his collar. Vg. 7.50
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Graphic Language of Neville Brody 2. First Printing, softcover

By: WOZENCROFT, Jon. BRODY, Neville.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Universe Publishing, New York, 1996, ISBN:0789300737

Seller ID: 106954

WOZENCROFT, Jon. The Graphic Language of Neville Brody 2. (New York) : Universe Publishing, (1996). First Paperback Printing. Pp (4),5-175,(1). Illustrated. 4to, illustrated black and purple card covers, with French flaps. Neville Brody (born 1957 in London) is an English graphic designer, typographer and art director. "The Graphic Art of Neville Brody 2 is a wide-ranging and forceful introduction to a period of change that has barely begun to take its full course. The electronic future of multimedia systems, artificialintelligence and the internet makes it an essential purchase for all th...
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Gravestones of Acadie and other Essays on Local History, Genealogy and Parish Records of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. #133 of 500

By: MORSE, William Inglis.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: A. Smith & Co, London, 1929,

Seller ID: 100543

MORSE, William Inglis. Gravestones of Acadie and other Essays on Local History, Genealogy and Parish Records of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. With photographs by the author. London : Printed by A. Smith & Co., 1929. "Designed by W. B. Dalton and W. H. Amery with the Assistance of the Artistic Typography Class of the Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts, London. Printed under the direction of H. G. Wicks by A. Smith & Co., 30 Sangley Road, London, S.E.6". Pp. (17),2-110,(2),+ plates. Number 133 of 500 copies. 4to, quarter-calf with red cloth boards, gilt lettering and five raised bands to spine,...
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Gravestones of Acadie and other Essays on Local History, Genealogy and Parish Records of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. #304 of 500.

By: MORSE, William Inglis

Price: $450.00

Publisher: A. Smith & Co, London, 1929,

Seller ID: 92404

MORSE, William Inglis. Gravestones of Acadie and other Essays on Local History, Genealogy and Parish Records of Annapolis County, Nova Scotia. With photographs by the author. London : Printed by A. Smith & Co., 1929. "Designed by W. B. Dalton and W. H. Amery with the Assistance of the Artistic Typography Class of the Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts, London. Printed under the direction of H. G. Wicks by A. Smith & Co., 30 Sangley Road, London, S.E.6". Pp. (17),2-110,(2),+ plates. Number 304 of 500 copies. 4to, quarter-calf with red cloth boards, gilt lettering and five raised bands t...
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Horace's Epistles, Wieland and the Reader : A Three-Way Relationship

By: CURRAN, Jane Veronica HORACE WIELAND, C.M.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association W.S. Maney & Son Ltd, London, 1995, ISBN:0901286478

Seller ID: 96845

CURRAN, Jane Veronica . Horace's Epistles, Wieland and the Reader : A Three-Way Relationship. London : " Published by W.S. Maney & Son Ltd for the Modern Humanities Research Association and the Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London", (1995). Pp (10),[1]-172,(2). 8vo greay and white cardcovers. Curran a Dalhousie University scholar. MHRA Texts and Dissertations Volume 38; Bithell Series of Dissertations Volume 19. "Wieland's translations of Horace's Epistles, neglected until recently, demonstrate his skill in overcoming the bipolar relationship implied in the very idea...
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La Troupe des Bons Enfans Assembles a L'Hotel des Ragouts

By: Anonymous COX, Edwin Marion)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chiswick Press, London, 1931,

Seller ID: 76813

Anonymous, prefatory note by Edwin Marion COX. La Troupe des Bons Enfans Assembles a L'Hotel des Ragouts. 1931: Chiswick Press, London. Pp. (2),[1]-18,(4). 12mo, blue cloth spine with pink paper-covered boards, title on paperlabel to front cover. A 1931 reprinting of the original. "The typography a nd paper, as well as the language of the presumably original edition in my possession, suggest the third quarter of the seventeenth century as the period of publication. [...] The text of this amusing production contains manyunusual words, which heighten the interest of what is a light-hearted e...
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Letters into Words

By: HARVEY, Michael

Price: $20.00

Publisher: William Clowes & Sons Ltd., London, 1973,

Seller ID: 100651

HARVEY, Michael. Letters into Words. (London, Beccles and Colchester): William Cowes & Sons Ltd., (1973). First Printing. Pp. (4),5-[23],(1). 8vo, printed red card covers with french flaps. "The following notes and drawings will immediately give to the experienced reader some very sound basic information about letters and the use of lettering. Here are principles free from passing fashion that so often swamp good sense. Although most graphic designers and typographers rely on ready made letters in the forms of printing types, matrices on film and transfer sheets, nevertheless their choice of a...
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Liberators : Being Adventures in the City of Fine Minds

By: HUBBARD, Elbert

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Roycrofters, East Aurora, N.Y., 1915,

Seller ID: 100457

HUBBARD, Elbert. The Liberators : Being Adventures in the City of Fine Minds. East Aurora, N.Y.: Done into a printed book by The Roycrofters at their shop, MCMXV [1915]. Pp (18),13-312,(8), frontispiece + 13 plates (with printed tissue guards). Decorated Initials. Double Column. 4to, decorated brownhalf leather printed in maroon, tan paper covered boards, top edge gilt, o ther edges untrimmed. Edited and arranged by John T. Hoyle; typography by Charles Rosen and Axel Edward Sahlin; Presswork by John Hall; binding by Charles Youngers. Contents : Foreword; Michelangelo; By Rule of Three; Ol' Joh...
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Love and the Mess We're In. First Edition, paperback.

By: MARCHE, Stephen.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Gaspereau Press, Kentville, NS, 2012, ISBN:9781554471072

Seller ID: 111073

MARCHE, Stephen. Love and the Mess We're In. (Kentville, NS) : Gaspereau Press Limited, Printers & Publishers, MMXII. First Printing. Pp. (16),17-259,(13), folding map inset laid. 8vo, printed grey card covers with black and olive lettering to front and spine, French flaps. "When Viv flies to BuenosAires for a secret liaison with Clive, there is no ambiguity as to their i ntentions -- adultery. But this is where conventionality terminates in Stephen Marche's new novel, 'Love and the Mess We're In', a work whose lyric richness and inventiveness skillfully embody the tumbles and turns of lov...
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Mainz Diary : 1437-1440 In Which New Light Is Shed upon the Cradle Days of the Art and Mystery of Printing. Translated from the German by Albert Bachaus. Edited and with a Note by Arthur W. Rushmore.

By: RUSHMORE, Arthur W. (ed.).

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Golden Hind Press, Madison, New Jersey., 1940,

Seller ID: 98353

RUSHMORE, Arthur W. (ed.). The Mainz Diary : 1437-1440 In Which New Light Is Shed upon the Cradle Days of the Art and Mystery of Printing. Translated from the German by Albert Bachaus. Edited and with a Note by Arthur W. Rushmore. With a Critical Foreword by Hermann Puterschein. Issued, on the Occasion of the 500th Anniversary of the Invention of Printing from Movable Type, by the Golden Hind Press in Madison, New Jersey. Anno Domini Mcmxl [1940]. Pp [i]-[xv],(3),1-[12],(2), frontis + 2 plates. 8vo, white cloth spine, blue paper covered boards, printed white paper label to spine, fore-edge unt...
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