Eckerstrom Ralph E (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. One in a limited printing of 800. Illustrated covers exhibit moderate soiling on edges, spine ends, spine and hinges. Light wear and moderate soiling on corners and spine ends. Lighter shelf wear and soiling to covers. Light soiling to bottom page ends. Foxing and light yellowing to inside front and back cover hinges. Inside hinge is cracked and fragile. Text and the many illustrations are slightly yellowed due to age. Otherwise clean and unmarked. A book on "beginning to comprehend and make use of the functional, visual form. This brings a new concept of art and design into daily lives. Lucid verbal communication in books can be made more effective with expressive visual accompaniment." All books are individually examined and described. Never ex-lib unless stated.…

[10], 53 pages. Hardcover: H 22cm x L 15.5cm. Acetate dust jacket lightly toned but with chips, creasing, and tearing. Muted purple boards; slender tearing at upper front joint. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Beta Phi Mu Publication Committee card laid-in at title pages noting Ralph E. Eckerstrom as the book's designer. …

Printed Wrapper, Staplebound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4to. 24 pp., illus. No date (circa mid-1950's) Creasing to spine and page corners but still a very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Designed by Ralph E. Eckerstrom. Brown boards with embossed flower, section of black/white photos of exquisite bindings at Princeton (Rubaiyat), Library of Congress (John Gay's Fables), New York Public Library (Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter), and others, very tiny nick at top of front spine indentation. Fine +. Eckerstrom, Ralph E. (illustrator).…