Design Typography Dwiggins (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Xiii, 377 Pp. Orange Cloth Stamped In Black. First Printing. Book With Light Wear, Beginning To Fray Along Top Edge Of Spine, Clean And Unmarked And Unfaded. Dj With Wear, Trimmed 1/8" So Slightly Shorter Than Book, Small Chips And Tears.…

Red cloth; author, title, publ. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket faded, edgewear. 1st Edition. Highlight and low lights of a an outrageous fraternity of Boston's most illustrious and outrageous public figures - politicians, rogues, charlatans - including the infamous trio Honey Fitz Fitzgerald, James Michael Curley, and Dan Coakley, the histrionic and corrupt Knave of Boston. Introduction by William F. Buckley, Jr. 190 pp. Photos, maps; W.A. Dwiggins,typography and book design (illustrator). Inscribed "To Francis' dear fr.…

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition Stated. 408 Pages plus a six page comprehensive Index. No defects noted. Here is the full-length portrait of New Mexico that Erna Fergusson, of all native New Mexican writers, was destined to give us. It is a living book about living realities, and in it history is employed only to make clear how the facts of today came to be what they are. This book about one of the most varied and fascinating of the forty-eight states is divided into three sections: "Indian," "Spanish," and "Gringo." In each section the conditions and appearances of the present day are made vivid as they are derived from the past. From primitive Indians to Spanish grandees, cattle rustlers, and atomic scientists at Los Alamos, Erna Fergusson's emphasis is on people, but Jew Mexico's magnificent landscape is nowhere neglected. The result is a brightly colored pageant of three peoples which is both affectionate and accurate. From Albuquerque to Zuni, from Alamogordo and Carlsbad to Santa Fe and Taos, here is New Mexico in an absorbing, enlightening, and satisfying book. Illustrated with 26 photographs and two maps. Erna Fergusson was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1888. Her maternal grandfather had reached Santa Fe by wagon train in 1848; her father, from Alabama by way of Virginia, had gone west in stagecoach days. She herself was graduated from the University of New Mexico, after which she took a master's degree at Columbia University. During the First World War, as representative of the Red Cross, she came to know every county and almost every town of her state by intimate experience. Later she started a tourist bureau there, and became known as the first woman dude wrangler. Dwiggins, W. A. - Typography and Binding Design (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. First edition, second printing. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. 314 pgs. First edition, stated second printing, December 1937. Black cloth boards with silver device and lettering on cover and spine. Dwiggens block print title pg. Condition of book is VERY GOOD ; corners slightly bumped, slight wear to ends of spine. Covers very clean and fresh, binding solid, text excellent. DJ condition is FAIR ; not price-clipped ($2.50) many closed tears with chipping to edges, small open tears to bottom cover, half of spine (lower) missing, two small open tears back top. Spine faded, covers pretty fresh and bright though. In new Mylar wrapper. Fiction. RGR.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 235 Pp. Tan Cloth Stamped In Brown. First Edition Stated. Very Near Fine. Dust Jacket Price Clipped With Publisher's Stamped $2.75 Net Price, Light Wear, A Few Short Tears At Edges, Some Fading To Spine Panel.

Red cloth, Gold-stamped cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good; Discolored edges, in Bro. First Borzoi Edition. Twenty-three letters written by Louisa Smith Clappe [under pseudonym "Dame Shirley" ] to her sister, in Massachusetts in which she describes the landscape, conditions and life of Rich Bar, a short-lived mining camp north of San Francisco on the Feather River. Set in Dwiggins' experimental Linotype Stuyvesant typeface. A volume in the publisher's Western American series edited by Oscar Lewis and Robert Glass Cleland. Introduction & notes by Carl I. Wheat. xxix, 216 pp. Photos, maps; W.A. Dwiggins,typography and book design (illustrator). POS, interior front cover.…