Frederic Goudy, Signed (16 results)

cord-tied paper wrappers. Wolpe, Berthold (illustrator). large 8vo. cord-tied paper wrappers. (4) pages printed French fold. Commemorating the achievements of Berthold Wolpe accompanied by a biographical sketch. Lists other award winners of this distinguished award. A fine copy. This copy is signed by Jerry Craw.

cord-tied paper wrappers. Craw, Freeman (illustrator). large 8vo. cord-tied paper wrappers. (4) pages printed French fold. Commemorating the achievements of Freeman "Jerry" Craw accompanied by a biographical sketch. Lists other award winners of this distinguished award. A fine copy. This copy is signed by Jerry Craw.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good w/ Protective Cover. Very good condition. Like new. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. By Author.

cord-tied paper wrappers. King, Howard (illustrator). large 8vo. cord-tied paper wrappers. (4) pages printed French fold. Commemorating the achievements of Howard N. King, accompanied by a biographical sketch. Lists other award winners of this distinguished award. A fine copy. This copy is signed by Howard King on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 144 pages, 250 illustrations, fine condition with dust-wrapper. Heavy book - additional shipping will be requested for destinations out-with the United Kingdom. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Limited Edition. About the book: Softcover. Unbound pages folded in unbound cover. Signed by print setter Alex Lawson on title page. Includes a letter from Lawson, written in 1967. Also includes watermark portrait page. Due to its location there is discoloration and tearing to page where it has been exposed. Additional photos available upon request. We're not satisfied unless you are. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. 4to. Brown cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 144pp. Extensive illustrations, text endpapers. Fine/fine. Pristine, tight first edition of this breathtaking volume in the "Masters of American Design" series, a homage to the most influential type designer ever (1865-1947) -- and a contributor's copy. Handsomely inscribed and signed by the author in black fineline on half-title page: "Now I see why Goudy / loved Scripps -- / DJR Bruckner / 8/2/92" -- "Scripps" refers to Goudy's Scripps College Old Style typeface that he designed in 1941 and, although not named, Bruckner inscribed this for artist and type designer Judith Sutcliffe (1942-2021), who is noted on the dust jacket's rear flap for providing "Yearly figures set in Goudy Newstyle, a Goudy face translated digitally" for the jacket's back panel. Bruckner (1933-2013) was a well-known "New York Times" book and theater critic.

8 pp. Paper pamphlet, no cover. Article about Goudy and American Typography, discusses Goudy's contribution to typesetting and includes a page of examples. Signed by author. 8 1/2" x 6 1/2" Inscribed and signed by author.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Green cloth with leather title labels on spine and front board, (8.75 x 5.75 inches), unpaginated. The first Typophiles production. One of only 60 copies. SIGNED by 14 contributors, plus inscribed by Goudy to Ernest Trotter at the limitation page. Signers include Bruce Rogers at verso of title page, Paul A. Bennett and John Archer at end of Neither Preface of Colophon, John S. Fass, Sol. Hess, Earl H. Emmons, J. Thompson Willing, L.T. White, John Clyde Oswald, Eney Jr., Alfred Duhman, Robert Stumpf, Fuhrmaun, Stanley Patuo. A collection of seventeen signature by seventeen different presses, including the Press of the Woolly Whale, the Harbor Press, and the Golden Hind Press. The title page was designed by Bruce Rogers with ornaments and printed in brown and green. Goudy was a master type designer, developing over one hundred fonts. Laid-in is a ALS (Autograph Letter Signed) by Goudy handwritten in ink on his stationary. Partially unopened, an exceptionally clean, bright, and tight copy showing expected toning to spine lable. A remarkable collection of fine press printing along with autographs from the masters of the printing arts. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. Signed Bank Cheque. Very Good. Scarce.From the collection of San Franciscan Albert Sperisen.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED presentation copy, inscribed "To Lydia" from Frederic W. Goudy, dated 11/22/33. Cream paper wrappers, staple bound. [20] pp. B&W frontis. illustration. Covers and interior age toned. Short tear at top staple. Some offsetting from frontis. to title page. Signed by Subject(s).

Hardcover. First edition. 58 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition one of 300 signed by Goudy on front free endpaper. Title page portrait reproduced from a wood engraving by Charles. E. Pont. 8 unnumbered pages of plates & portraits. Orig. green cloth front cover and spine paper labels. Fine in original glassine.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Small pamphlet in unprinted wrappers. Limited edition of 425 copies. Signed by Goudy on the page with the poem titled "From the Printers to F. W. G." Also signed by all the printers/artists lited: Harrison Elliott, John E Allen, Charles W Pont, Amos Bethke, Hal Zamboni, Eugene P Ettenberg, Arnold Bank, and two others. Possibly, these are the printers responsible for the poem. Not an especially scarce Typophiles item, but surely difficult to find with such a fine assemblage of signatures. Laid in is a Typophiles postcard postmarked in 1939 and abrief 1956 note from Bruce Rogers, initialed. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8 x 5", full reddish brown leather, gilt ruled, raised bands, gilt lettering, teg, 190pp + printer's note. Covers have light wear, a tiny scrape on front cover else very good to fine condition. Some of the chapters: "Hand-Press Printing: A Plea For A Lost Craft", "Printing As Architecture", "The Two Worlds Of Typography". Limited to 225 copies on Bishopstoke paper. SIGNED RABAU BINDING.

First Edition. First edition. Number 165 of 195 numbered copies. This one INSCRIBED by Goudy on the birthday-greetings foldout inserted at front, "To Dorothy Bevis with the highest regard of Fred W. Goudy 5/1/39 Los A." Leura Dorothy Bevis (1904-1996) was a bookseller at Dawsons Bookshop and later an associate editor at the University of California Press where she started "The Pierian Spring." Collects 27 original contributions from various printers - most notably women - which were prepared separately and then bound together. Contributions include ones printed by Lucina Wakefield (Marchbanks Press); Helen Olson (Spiral Press); B. Evans & Elizabeth Mann (Overbrook Press); Madeline Forgue; Evelyn Harter, Emily E. Connor (Marchbanks Press); Jane Grabhorn (Jumbo Press); Elizabeth Wood (Harbor Press); Jean B. Barr (Grady Press); Mary D. Alexander (Univ. of Chicago Press); E. L. Hildreth & Co.; Club of Printing Women of New York; Katherine Adcock (Marchbanks Press); et al. 16mo quarter beige open-weave cloth spine lettered in blue; blue marbled paper boards. Marbled paper quite rubbed with boards visible at corners, cloth at spine ends beginning to fray, but otherwise quite good with binding sound and contents still fresh and clean. Uncommon. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. One of 195 numbered copies signed by Frederic Goudy. Bound in marbled boards with a cloth spine stamped in blue. Uncut. Ex-library; non-circulating, with the usual markings. Previous owner's name in ink on the limitation page. Fold-out birthday card is nearly seperated. Wear to the extremities. Signed.