Alphabet Image (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. Ben Shahn, 'Alphabet of Creation', 1957 (Cover Image) (illustrator). 234 pp. Book and dj are flawless. Clean, fresh, sharp copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Profusely illustrated, mostly in black-and-white. Decorative paper covers, printed dust-jacket. Spine a little soiled. A very good copy. Principal contents include: Harry Carter: The Typographical Design of Government Printing; Derek Whitely: Du Maurier's Illustrations for 'Once a Week'; Simon Nowell-Smith: The Phonotypes of Robert Bridges; A.F. Johnson: Fat Faces; John Lewis: The Drawings and Book Decorations of Lynton Lamb.

Sm.4to (242x197mm.) 98p. illustrations in colour & monochrome. Original illustrated wrappers, slightly soiled, as is the dustjacket. Contents include: Harry Carter, The typographical design of government printing; A F Johnson, Fat face: their history, forms and use and John Lewis, The drawings and book decoration of Lynton Lamb.

Sm.4to, (242x197mm.) 98p. illustrations in colour & monochrome. Original plastic comb-bound wrappers, the wrappers slightly discoloured. Contents include: Ellic Howe, Newspaper printing in the nineteenth century; James Thorpe, The posters of the Beggarstaff Brothers and Harold Keeble, The typography of psychological warfare.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Illustrations in black-and-wite and colour, type specimens etc. Ring-bound in semi-stiff printed wrappers . A very good to fine copy Peggy Lang: Times Roman; Denis Saurat: Edward Bawden's England; S.L. Righyni: News Bills: A Retrospectus; A.F. Johnson: On Re-reading Updike; James Thorpe: Draughtsmen of the early "Daily Graphic".

8vo. 9.5 x 7.75 inches. 98 pp. + [2] pp., including advertisements. In pictorial card wrapper. Wrapper and page edges a little sunned, but otherwise a very good copy. Inset: A and I: Stop Press, 7 +[1] pp. Illustrated by 4 colour plates paginated in text and by text figures, some in red, and including wood engravings and facsimiles. The last issue of the periodical Alphabet and Image before it separated into Alphabet (typography) and Image (arts) in 1949 (see the inserted Stop Press). It was edited by Robert Harling (1910-2008), typographer, novelist and journalist, and friend of Ian Fleming, who recruited him to work in the Inter-Service Topographical Department in 1941. Harling had an adventurous wartime career and followed Royal Navy service at Dunkirk and with the Atlantic convoys, by visits abroad to collect enemy data, soon after D-Day. Printed and published by James Shand (d.1967), whose family owned the Shenval Press. PERIODICALS TYPOGRAPHY PERIODICALS TYPOGRAPHY 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED PERIODICALS.