Millennium by Dwiggins (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. Illustrations In Blue (illustrator). 1st Edition. 100 Pp. Light Blue Cloth Stamped In Brown. First Edition Stated. Slight Usage, But Cloth Browning, Small "5/62" At Bottom F Front Pastedown. Now Quite Scarce, One Of A Limitation Of 1750 Copies Only (Stated In Colophon). A Play: "Suppose That All These Mechanical Slaves Serving Mankind Got Sick Of Their Jobs. Suppose That They Managed, By Means Of Some Unknown Vibration, To Get In Touch With One Another And Pool Their Grudges. They Must Have Grudges . Suppose That The Higher Orders Of The Machine Fraternity, Already Raised To Almost Human Levels In Point Of Automatic Functioning, Should Take The Next Step In Evolution And Emerge As Personalities, With Faculties Of Judgment, Selection, Purpose, Organization, Individual Action . What, Then, Would Be The Position Of Human Kind Upon Earth?" Next Year, In Ten Years, In Twenty Years, A Hundred Years? And What Government Agency, Exactly, Will Care? William Addison Dwiggins (1880 -1956), Was An American Type Designer, Calligrapher, And Book Designer. He Attained Prominence As An Illustrator And Commercial Artist, And He Brought To The Designing Of Type And Books Some Of The Boldness That He Displayed In His Advertising Work. His Work Can Be Described As Ornamented And Geometric, Similar To The Art Moderne And Art Deco Styles Of The Period, Using Oriental Influences And Breaking From The More Antiquarian Styles Of His Colleagues And Mentors Updike, Cleland And Goudy. Dwiggins' Interest In Lettering Led To The Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Sensing Dwiggins' Talent And Knowledge, Hiring Dwiggins In March 1929 As A Consultant To Create A Sans-Serif Typeface, Which Became Metro, In Response To Similar Type Being Sold From European Foundries Such As Erbar, Futura, And Gill Sans, Which Dwiggins Felt Failed In The Lower-Case. Dwiggins Went On To Have A Successful Working Relationship With Chauncey H. Griffith, Linotype's Director Of Typographic Development, And All His Typefaces Were Created For Them. His Most Widely Used Book Typefaces, Electra And Caledonia, Were Specifically Designed For Linotype Composition And Have A Clean Spareness.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrations In Blue (illustrator). 1st Edition. 100 Pp. Light Blue Cloth Stamped In Brown. First Edition Stated. Slight Usage, But Cloth Browning. Dust Jacket With Stamped Price $2.00 Net (Not Present On Some Copies), Wear, Small Losses And Short Tears And Creases At Edges But No Loss Of Lettering Or Design. Quite Scarce, One Of A Limitation Of 1750 Copies Only (Stated In Colophon). A Play: "Suppose That All These Mechanical Slaves Serving Mankind Got Sick Of Their Jobs. Suppose That They Managed, By Means Of Some Unknown Vibration, To Get In Touch With One Another And Pool Their Grudges. They Must Have Grudges . Suppose That The Higher Orders Of Th Machine Fraternity, Already Raised To Almost Human Levels In Point Of Automatic Functioning, Should Take The Next Step In Evolution And Emerge As Personalities, With Faculties Of Judgment, Selection, Purpose, Organization, Individual Action . What, Then, Would Be The Position Of Human Kind Upon Earth?" Next Year, In Ten Years, In Twenty Years, A Hundred Years? And What Government Agency, Exactly, Will Care? William Addison Dwiggins (1880 -1956), Was An American Type Designer, Calligrapher, And Book Designer. He Attained Prominence As An Illustrator And Commercial Artist, And He Brought To The Designing Of Type And Books Some Of The Boldness That He Displayed In His Advertising Work. His Work Can Be Described As Ornamented And Geometric, Similar To The Art Moderne And Art Deco Styles Of The Period, Using Oriental Influences And Breaking From The More Antiquarian Styles Of His Colleagues And Mentors Updike, Cleland And Goudy. Dwiggins' Interest In Lettering Led To The Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Sensing Dwiggins' Talent And Knowledge, Hiring Dwiggins In March 1929 As A Consultant To Create A Sans-Serif Typeface, Which Became Metro, In Response To Similar Type Being Sold From European Foundries Such As Erbar, Futura, And Gill Sans, Which Dwiggins Felt Failed In The Lower-Case. Dwiggins Went On To Have A Successful Working Relationship With Chauncey H. Griffith, Linotype's Director Of Typographic Development, And All His Typefaces Were Created For Them. His Most Widely Used Book Typefaces, Electra And Caledonia, Were Specifically Designed For Linotype Composition And Have A Clean Spareness.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrations In Blue (illustrator). 1st Edition. 100 Pp. Light Blue Cloth Stamped In Brown. First Edition Stated. Slight Usage, No Cloth Browning. Dust Jacket Unpriced (A $2.00 Net Price Was Stamped On Some Jackets), Slight Wear, Near Fine. Once Readily Available, Quite Scarce Now That Ai Intrudes Everywhere And Is Now Conceivably Able To Connect Everywhere, One Of A Limitation Of 1750 Copies Only (Stated In Colophon). A Play: "Suppose That All These Mechanical Slaves Serving Mankind Got Sick Of Their Jobs. Suppose That They Managed, By Means Of Some Unknown Vibration, To Get In Touch With One Another And Pool Their Grudges. They Must Have Grudges . Suppose That The Higher Orders Of Th Machine Fraternity, Already Raised To Almost Human Levels In Point Of Automatic Functioning, Should Take The Next Step In Evolution And Emerge As Personalities, With Faculties Of Judgment, Selection, Purpose, Organization, Individual Action . What, Then, Would Be The Position Of Human Kind Upon Earth?" Next Year, In Ten Years, In Twenty Years, A Hundred Years? And What Government Agency, Exactly, Will Care? William Addison Dwiggins (1880 -1956), Was An American Type Designer, Calligrapher, And Book Designer. He Attained Prominence As An Illustrator And Commercial Artist, And He Brought To The Designing Of Type And Books Some Of The Boldness That He Displayed In His Advertising Work. His Work Can Be Described As Ornamented And Geometric, Similar To The Art Moderne And Art Deco Styles Of The Period, Using Oriental Influences And Breaking From The More Antiquarian Styles Of His Colleagues And Mentors Updike, Cleland And Goudy. Dwiggins' Interest In Lettering Led To The Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Sensing Dwiggins' Talent And Knowledge, Hiring Dwiggins In March 1929 As A Consultant To Create A Sans-Serif Typeface, Which Became Metro, In Response To Similar Type Being Sold From European Foundries Such As Erbar, Futura, And Gill Sans, Which Dwiggins Felt Failed In The Lower-Case. Dwiggins Went On To Have A Successful Working Relationship With Chauncey H. Griffith, Linotype's Director Of Typographic Development, And All His Typefaces Were Created For Them. His Most Widely Used Book Typefaces, Electra And Caledonia, Were Specifically Designed For Linotype Composition And Have A Clean Spareness.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. A sharp copy of the First Edition in a somewhat dusty Very Good or better jacket. Scarce Science Fiction ish play dealing with Machines/AI taking over humanity. Limited to 1750 copies though far scarcer than that number would indicate. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages.