HUNT ROMAN: The Birth of a Type
Language: English
Published by The Pittsburgh Bibliophiles, Pittsburgh, 1965
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.Entropy Books
AbeBooks seller since November 6, 2009
Condition: Used - Near fine
US$ 75.00
Quantity: 1 available
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Grey paper-covered boards with spine label, DW, landscape 8vo., 24 pages + illustrations and type specimens, including two folding plates. One of 750 copies designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher from Hunt Roman and Spectrum types on Strathmore Rag paper by Davis & Warde under the supervision of Thomas C. Pears III. This copy out of series. Laid in is an invitation to meet Zapf in Detroit at the office of Harvey Willens in 1966, printed by Leonard Bahr, and signed by Zapf. A fine copy in a very lightly soiled, near fine DW with one clean, invisible tear, in archival mylar.
Seller Inventory # 007040
Bibliographic details
- Title
- HUNT ROMAN: The Birth of a Type
- Author
- Zapf, Hermann and Jack Werner Stauffacher, Commentary and Notes
- Publisher
- The Pittsburgh Bibliophiles, Pittsburgh
- Publication year
- 1965
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Artist
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Seller catalogs
- Typography
Entropy Books
Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since November 6, 2009
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