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Published by Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, NY U.S.A., 1954
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This copy has some light corner bumping, edge wear. Interior text is clean and binding tight. Illustrations sharp.
Published by Mergenthaler Linotype Co., Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A., 1954
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Jacket. Color & b/w Illustration (illustrator). First Edition. Publication for the 100th aniversary of the Mergenthaler Linotype Co., contains an interesting look into the lyno-type process and indutry. Attractively bound and printed with vellum spine and gilt titling, 8vo, 162pp. (slight rubbing to corners and edges; spine bottom lightly bumped). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by Mergenthaler Linotype, Brooklyn, 1954
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarter parchment gilt with parchment paper-covered boards gilt, 8vo., 63 pages, illustrated and with a mounted color portrait. Nicely printed in Germany. Compliments slip laid in. From the collection of Arnold Bank, the calligrapher, with two small stamps in red to that effect. Paper beginning to lift at foot of rear cover, light edgewear, else a very good copy.
Published by Merganthaler Linotype - Brooklyn, NY, 1954
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Cream cloth quarter-bound to spine over faux-marbled glossy paper on boards. Gilt lettering to spine and gilt line drawing of linotype machine to front. Book is tight, square, particularly sharp-cornered and free of markings or flaws inside and out. Near Fine or better. Laid-in is a compliments card from Martin M. Reed, president of the Merganthaler Linotype Company. Also laid-in are three loose pages from the periodical "Design and Production Monthly" from 1954 that has an article about the making of linotype characters. Nice color frontispiece portrait tipped in of Merganthaler. This book "commerorates the One Hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ottmar Mergenthaler, whose contribution to the Graphic Arts industry remains one of the great inventions of all time." Printed in Mainz, Germany, With an Introduction by Lin Yutang.
Published by Mergenthaler Linotype Company,, Brooklyn, N.Y.,, 1954
Seller: Book Stage, Stratford, ON, Canada
First Edition
HC. First Edition 63 pp, Illustrations Centenary publication for the inventor of the Linotype machine. Printed in Mainz, Germany, illustrations in blue, initials red. Fine half vellum binding , parchment over board, gilt embossed illustr. on front cover. Frontispiece colour portrait.Inserted a printed presentation card of Martin M. Reed, President of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Fine.