Eckerstrom Ralph (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Ralph G. Eckerstrom (illustrator). First Edition. Beta Mu Phu Chapbook No. 2. LIMITED TO 1050 COPIES. Out of print.

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. Eckerstrom, Ralph E. (illustrator). 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 +.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Very Good w/ a 1.5x1inch stain on front cover, nick on top spine, some tanning on cover. Inside is clean & tight. A short lived design mag. This issue incl. works by Unberto Eco, Ivan Chermayeff, Will Burtin, Kenneth Isaacs, Interview w/ Rudolph de Harak, and more.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Very uncommon publication from 1968 which contains a bounty of American trademarked logos from the heyday of the post-war graphic design and advertising boon. In Black cardboard slipcase foil-stamped in white, with a 56 page booklet, 16 sheets that fold out to 4 panels, and 45 single panel sheets. An amazing document in a visually compelling format. This copy generally very nice, with some heavier wear to the slipcase, but the inner contents are in excellent, superb, crisp condition, appears scarcely looked through at all. The case itself, thought still intact, is a bit wobbly, and is missing about 1" of one of the sides, and what remains on both sides is slightly curled and peeled up form the joining cardboard underneath, leaving it a bit precarious as is (could likely be fixed up easily with PVA glue and happy to do that for anyone interested). Some further fraying at the sides and some light rubbing to covers besdes. As mentioned, all interior contents are nearly as new, remarkably so given the age. Booklet has some minor toning around edges of the back cover, and one or two of the sheets has the slightest bit of corner wear, but generally superb. Lester Beall [essay] Chicago: Society of Typographic Arts (STA), June 1968. First [only] edition. Black cardboard slipcase foil-stamped in white. [16] 4-panel sheets, 25 loose sheets, and a 56-page booklet enclosed in the slipcase. Contents lightly handled. The Publishers slipcase is split along the lower front edge and worn along each edge, with tape repair to case bottom and bumps to corners. Nearly fine contents in a fair to good example of the Publishers slipcase. Rare. Black slipcase contains 16 [8.5" x 8.5"] 4-panel sheets, 25 [8.5" x 8.5"] loose sheets and a 56-page [8.5" x 8.5"] perfect-bound booklet. From the introduction: "193 American trademarks, symbols and logotypes were chosen by a jury of leaders in the field of design to be represented in Trademarks/USA, the first national retrospective exhibition of its kind, which opened April 22, 1964 at the National Design Center in Marina City, Chicago, under the auspices of the Society of Typographic Arts." An amazing document that chronicles the rise of the American trademark after World War II, and by extension the graphic design profession as well. Essays include the introduction for "Trademarks/USA" including the President's Message and 5 b/w photos of jury members, an essay called The Trademark: A Graphic Summation of Individuality by Lester Beall including 5 b/w photos of the exhibition. Some of the actual trademark designers include, Abbott Laboratories, George Nelson, The Ansul Company, Raymond Loewy, CBS, William Golden, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Lester Beall, CCA, Ralph Eckerstrom, IBM, Paul Rand, International Minerals and Chemical Corp., Morton Goldsholl Design Assoc, International Paper Co., Lester Beall, Lawry's Foods, Inc., Saul Bass, Martin-Senour Co., Morton Goldsholl Design Assoc, Herman Miller, George Nelson; Playboy Magazine, Arthur Paul; Westinghouse, Paul Rand; Weyerhaeuser Co., Lippincott & Margulies, Inc, Ladislav Sutnar, Saul Bass, George Tscherny, Lippincott & Margulies, Morton Goldsholl Design Assoc., Raymond Loewy, Tom Geismar/Chermayeff & Geismar Assoc., John Massey, Paul Rand, S. Neil Fujita, Dickens, Inc., Walter Dorwin Teague Assoc., George Nelson & Co., Lester Beall, Inc., Milton Glaser/Pushpin Studios, Charles Coiner, John Ciampi, Albert Kner/Container Corp. of America, Aero Press, Frank Gianninoto Assoc., Eckstein-Stone Assoc., Lippincott & Margulies, Dickens, Inc., and William Wondriska among many many others.