Ido Agassi (3 results)

Original Wraps. Condition: Fine in Wraps. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Original Wraps. "'Hatzvi typeface has been an immediate success', write Dr. Moshe Spitzer on his promotion page for the launch of this light 16-point typeface. Spitzer initiated the design of the modern Hebrew lettering based on their classic sans-serif shape. . Its first version was developed while he was still alive and working on it, and it was a lively and open job type consisting of lines of almost equal thickness with very light hits of emphasis at the end of the lines, with the letter shapes based on the shapes that were prevalent in the early Middle Ages." [From the text] Two leaves in English, five leaves in Hebrew, set in Hazvi. As is typical of Ido's work, the English 'reads' left to right, the Hebrew right to left, meeting [near] the center. Scarce. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Blue paper wrappers, black ink letters, black and red ink in text block. 8vo. np [8pp]. Typographic designs.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Someck, Ronny (illustrator). Someck, Ronny. Hardcover. Number 35 of 88 copies. Signed by the author and printer. A collection of five poems by Ronny Someck about ballet with two hand-colored illustrations. Someck is an Israeli poet, musician, and artist who has won multiple awards for his poetry including the Prime Minister's Award, the Hans Berghhuis prize for poetry, and the Yehuda Amichai Award for Hebrew poetry. He is internationally renowned with poems published in over thirty-five languages and ten books of poetry published in English. The Even Hoshen press was founded in 1994 by Uzi Agassi, who was later joined by his son Ido. Their work is letterpress printed on high quality paper with hand made bindings and illustrations. Pointe Shoes is a dos-a-dos structure printed in both English and Hebrew. It is bound in black cloth boards with inset cloth ballet slippers to both boards and decorative pink and black ribbons to spine. The center of both signatures features four black and pink flourishes. Printed on Grandee paper and handset in Alt-Mediaval and Margalit type. Housed in a black cloth slipcase. A fine production. Unpaginated. [18 pages.] PRI/032713.

Original Wraps. Condition: Fine in Fine Case. Limited Edition. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. A facsimile of what is believed to be the first automobile marketing publication printed in Hebrew. "This booklet is a facsimile reprint edition of the original catalog of the Ford Model A. In this reproduction we strived to maintain the quality of the orginal print, using the letterpress printing technique that was common in those days." (from the colophon). Tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed wraps; blue leather archival case, bibliographic pamphlet laid in. 8vo. 24pp. Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition, this being 165 of 290.