Fred Goudy (6 results)

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Single sheet of creme paper folded twice to form three printed pages and a facsimile of Goudy's last letter on the reverse. Typophile Monograph XXX, planned by Sol Hess and printed by Fred Anthoensen. A near fine copy.

Staplebound. Condition: Good +. Duodecimo, pp. [8]. Staple-bound paperback. Wear to covers and edges, including a tear at bottom spine. Pages appear clean and unmarked. Frederic William Goudy(1865 1947) was a prolific American printer, artist andtype designer, and whose self-named type continues to be a popular type in America today. "The Type Designs" is described as a "keepsake for friends of Fred. W. Goudy produced for his seventy-ninth birthday." It was published in 1944 by The Typophiles and includes an author's prologue by Goudy as well as a listing of his type designs.

Paperback. Oblong 32mo. Stiff beigebwrappers. Single 8vo leaf, folded. Near fine. "Typophile Monographs: IV" of this oddball production printed entirely in brown, being "lines written by J.E.A. as a Typophilic salute to FRED W. GOUDY recuperating at Marlboro on his seventy-eighth birthday, March eighth, 1943. The typography and printing are by L.F.W. at his press in New York; the type face is Kennerley." to the renowned American printer and type designer (1865-1947), "recuperating at Marlboro on his seventy-eighth birthday, March eighth, " The text is an amusing poem signed (in type) simply "J.E.A." The poem itself is a five-stanza tribute to the renowned American type designer and printer (1865-1947), opening with: "Another year has come and gone, / With skies both clear and cloudy, / Since many of us called upon / Our own beloved Goudy.".

Paperback. Oblong 32mo. Stiff grey wrappers. Single 8vo leaf, folded. Near fine. "Typophilic salute" to the legendary American printer and type designer (1865-1947), "recuperating at Marlboro on his seventy-eighth birthday, March eighth, " The text is an amusing poem signed ( in type) simply "J.E.A.".

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket -- As Published. First Edition. Bound in green wraps, stamped in black. A 32-page Type Speciment book from the Goudy's. Some (typical) edgewear, but a tight, clean copy. Size: Folio.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Second edition. But first edition to be printed by the Goudys at their Village Press. Corrects several mistakes in the printing done by Carl Rollins. Both editions and a third done by Cornhill Press in 1909 were unauthorized printings of Kipling's poem "The Gipsy Trail," which first appeared in Century Magazine in 1890. One of 1,000 copies in the trade issue. [Cary 27]. Dark gray paper boards measuring approximately 4 x 4.75"; title page and front cover label printed in black and red; frontis woodcut by E. B. Bird. Small chips from head and tail of spine otherwise near fine with tattered and torn remnants of original glassine still present. STEVENSON POETRY CALLING CARD laid in. Approximately 4 x 2.75"; untitled; rubricated initial "G" in red with rest of poem as well as Stevenson's initials printed in black; "Alfred Bartlett [in caps]/ 69, Cornhill, Boston, Mass." in black on back. Would appear to have been printed by The Village Press though not marked as such on card.