12mo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 142pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/very good. Quite minor jacket edgewear only. Superb and tight first thus, being the first revised edition of this 1960 text by the renowned German type designer and calligrapher (1918-2015).

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Bibliographic Details

Title

About Alphabets: Some Margin Notes on Type Design

Publisher

The M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA

Publication Date

1970

Language

English

ISBN 10

0262240106

ISBN 13

9780262240109

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Revised edition, but first issued by M.I.T. Press. Presentation on first blank page "For Ben L. in friendship and in admiration for his work as hobby-printer. Herrmann Z. New York, Febr 29, 1972." Ben L. is Ben Lieberman. Jacket rubbed. 143 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 12mo..

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Text: English, German (translation)

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