Hermann Zapf: Calligrapher, Type-Designer and Typographer

[The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Art Museum]

Published by Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 1961

About this Item

Small 12mo. Unpaginated [62]. White card wrappers with attached blue paper jacket with small paper spine label. Very light signs of handling, small scuff to spine. Faint foxing to text block top edge, light bumping to bottom edge wraps. Otherwise fine. Exhibition postcard from American Institute of Graphic Arts in New York laid in, with what appear to be wine stains from a lively art opening. Signed on front flyleaf in blue ballpoint by Hermann Zapf, and below in brown ink by his wife Gudrun Zapf [Von-Hesse], also a calligrapher and typographer as well as a bookbinder. Introduction by Noel Martin. Colophon states: Set in Linotype Optima and printed at the printing office of the Stempel foundry in Frankfurt am Main. The offset reproductions were printed by K.G. Lohse in Frankfurt am Main. Seller Inventory # 305

Bibliographic Details

Title: Hermann Zapf: Calligrapher, Type-Designer ...

Publisher: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati

Publication Date: 1961

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition