Letter Forms by Morison Stanley (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Front hinge cracked. Owner name on front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket excellent, in mylar sleeve.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good. Very nice clean, tight copy free of any marks.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Minor shelf wear to binding with light foxing on edges of boards & text block. Vintage bookstore label on front pastedown. Text and images unmarked. Dj shelf worn, toned & foxed in a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo., 167pp. Spine faded, else Fine. Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Modest shelfwear to jacket, housed in protective mylar cover. Clean pages and sound binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo. 19cm. Pp. xi, 167. Plates. Illusts. Orig. boards. D.w. V.g. Appleton 230a.

small octavo, red cloth. First Printing of this edition. First Printing of this edition. small octavo, red cloth. (xii), 167pp. The Typophiles, With an Introductory Note by John Dreyfus and Recollections of Stanley Morison by Beatrice Warde. Dreyfus explains that these essays have appeared only once before in origiinal, limited editions. The first was commissioned to inaugurate a series of type- specimen facsimiles, duplicating all pre-1800 designs of known origin and the second focuses on Italian scripts of the XV and the XVI centuries as illustrated in contemporary printed writing books. Illustrated. Spine faded, edges of text block slightly foxed. Contents clean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Red cloth gilt, DW, tall 12mo., xvi, 167 pages. Chap Book 45. With an introductory note by John Dreyfus and recollections by Beatrice Warde. Printed, without attribution, at the Cambridge University Press. Fine copy in fine glassine DW, in archival mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Small 8vo, 10 pp, 167 pages, fine condition in paper covered boards and dust-wrapper (not price clipped).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback book (167 pages) illustrated with b/w reproductions. Classine dust jacket has several small tears at edge. Bookseller since 1995 (ULChest-Top-End) rareviewbooks.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Red Cloth with gilt lettering. No dust jacket as issued. A Clean copy in square tight binding. Fine Condition. Introduction by John Dreyfuss. Includes Recollections of Stanley Morison by Beatrice Warde. The two essasy in this volume are: "Om the Classification of Typographical Variations" & " On Some Italian Scripts of the XV and XVI Centuries.".…

cloth. tall 12mo. cloth. xiv, 167 pages. First combined edition, being Typophile Chapbook 45. Spine faded, else a fine copy. Reprints of essays that appeared in 1963 and 1962 with a new introduction by John Dreyfus and a reprint of Beatrice Warde's recollections which appeared in the Sunday Times.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Set in Fournier with illustrations and specimens of types. Paperback copy rebound in red cloth with original covers inset on spine and upper board. Fine. On the classification of Typographial Variations; On some Italian Scripts of the XV and XVI Centuries.

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.…

Harley & Marks Publihsers, Point Roberts 1997. XIII, 129, (1) pp. Paperback. Bookplate. Good condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Bound in red cloth, stamped in gold in the original near fine cello dust jacket (now protected in mylar). Beautiful copy of this book by the Typophiles. This is Chapbook #45. Previous owner's neat bookplate to front endpaper. 167 pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

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Paperback.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,3350grams, ISBN:0521223385.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Two volumes in original red cloth slipcase. Light foxing to fore-edges, otherwise a very nice clean set. Will require additional postage due to weight.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 8 plates. Grey paper boards, blocked in gilt on spine and upper board. A fine copy in like dust-jacket. (Appleton 230a).

12mo, pp. xiv-[xvi], 167, 13 facsimiles in text; spine slightly faded else fine in orig. red cloth. The essays, "On the classification of Typographical Variations" and "On Some Italian Scripts of the XV and XVI Centuries," originally appeared separately in 1962 and 1963. Here they are reprinted along with Beatrice Warde's "Recollections of Stanley Morrison." Typophile Chapbook no. 45.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 12mo (18.5 cm), X, 167 pp, 4 plates. Publisher's boards and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). Two essays by an influential British typographer and historian of printing Stanley Morison (1889-1967). The first essay, "On the Classification of Typographical Variations", written at the request of John Dreyfus, was originally published as part of "Type Specimen Facsimiles". Sections include: The Dutch Romans; The 'modern' face; The rise of English type founding; The type of Baskerville, 1754; The vogue of Bodoni; William Morris and Emery Walker 1892; A modern scholarship: D. B. Updike 1922; The analysis of script in the 19th century. The second essay, "On some Italian Scripts of the XV and XVI Centuries", was written for Carla Marzoli's catalogue of early writing books, 1962.…

16mo. pp. x, [1 leaf], 167. 4 double-sided plates.several full-page text illus. bds. wrs. First Edition Thus.

Condition: Sehr gut. XIV, 167 S.mit Abbildungen (Typographische Muster); Original-Leinenband; 8°. Sehr gutes, schönes Exemplar. Auf dem Innendeckel Exlibris ders Typographen "Horst Heiderhoff".

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine binding. First Edition. Signed. 12mo; 3 volumes, the Trade edition, The Typophiles edition, and John Dreyfus' proof copy; 2 copies in red cloth; the proof copy is housed in a red chemise;~~1. Inside the chemise are 3 pages typed on foolscap of John Dreyfus' Editor's Notes signed by Mr. Dreyfus;~~2. Correspondence between Melvin Loos and John Dreyfus signed by Mr. Dreyfus; ~~3. Correspondence between Beatrice Warde and Melvin Loos, signed by Ms. Warde, ~~4. Correspondence between Robert "Doc" Leslie and Brian Crutchley signed by Brian Crutchley;~~5. 3 photocopies of correspondence between John Dreyfus and Robert "Doc" Leslie about the production of the book sent to John Ryder and Melvin Loos;~~6. A memorial letter from Beatrice Warde about the death of Stanley Morison with a rare photo of Mr. Morison smiling while holding her cat; and an invitation from Robert "Doc" Leslie of Gallery 303 and The Pierpont Library to a memorial for Stanley Morison; all housed in a grey cloth slipcase. Near Fine binding.…