373 - 587 BIBLIOGRAPHY and TYPOGRAPHY
= Published by the paper firm Proost en Brandt, Amsterdam, to send to relations: no.76, 106, 108, 109, 114, 117-120, 123-126, 128-130, 132, 135, 136, 138, 139, 141-148, 150-152, 154, 155, 158, 160, 162-165, 167-170, 172-176, 178, 181, 182, 185-187, 189, 191, 193, 197, 198, 201, 202, 204, 211, 213, 217, 219, 220, 222-224, 226, 227, 232, 233, 236, 239, 241, 244-246, 251, 254, 265-268, 272, 276, 286, 287, 289, 295, 297, 298, 301, 303, 304, 308, 324, 327, 333, 334, 339, 343, 345, 353, 345, 358, 362, 364-366, 369-373, 375, 378-380, 382-388, 390, 391, 392, and 402.
WITH several duplicates.
= Standard catalogues. 1. Kurt Schwitters - Typographie und Werbestaltung; 2. Vordemberge-Gildewart. Typographie und Werbegestaltung. 3. Ring 'neue werbegestalter'. Amsterdamer Ausstellung von 1931 (without the 4th vol. Ring 'neue werbegestalter' 1928-1933. Ein Überblick).
AND 2 others: P. RÖSSLER, Die neue Linie 1929-1943. Das Bauhaus am Kiosk (Berlin, 2007, num. (col.) ills., orig. wr., folio) and M. SIMON THOMAS and Y. BRENTJENS, Nederland ↔ Bauhaus. Pioniers van een nieuwe wereld (Rott., 2019, (col.) ills., orig. wr., 4to).
= Copy of the DELUXE EDITION, printed in 125 numb. copies (100).
Purington Rollins, C. BR, America's Typographic Playboy. New York, The Georgian Press, 1927, (4),13,(2)p., 6 plates, ills., printed in 500 numb. copies by Richard W. Ellis, orig. boards. - AND 2 others on and 2 by the same, i.a. J. BLUMENTHAL, Bruce Rogers, A Life in Letters 1870-1957 (Austin, 1989, (col.) plates, orig. cl., 4to) and B. ROGERS, Report on the Typography of the Cambridge University Press. Prepared in 1917 at the Request of the Syndics by Bruce Rogers and now printed in Honour of his Eightieth Birthday (Cambridge, 1950, ills., printed in 500 copies, orig. hcl., 4to).
- First few lvs. w. vague vertical fold.
AND 2 others similar: J.E. BOWLT and B. HERNAD, Aus vollem Halse. Russische Buchillustration und Typographie 1900-1930 (Munich, 1993, num. ills., orig. dec. boards w. dustwr., 4to) and A.W. PURVIS, Dutch Graphic Design, 1918-1945 (New York, 1992, (col.) ills., orig. boards w. duZtwr., 4to. One leaf creased).
= Illustrated history and bibliography of the long running German space opera franchise Perry Rhodan.
- Without the 6th (index) vol.
= Impressive work. Comprises: 1. From Minos to Cleopatra; 2. From Cicero to Hadrian; 3. From Constantine the Great to Cardinal Bessarion; 4. From Cassiodorus to Furnival; 5. From Petrarch to Michelangelo. From the library of Gerrit Komrij, sold in our rooms in 2012.
- Both rubber safety clasps defective. Otherwise fine.
= The famous Pop-art influenced typewriter, also known as "The Portable Red", was as Sottsass said "invented for use in any place except in an office, so as not to remind anyone of monotonous working hours, but rather to keep amateur poets company on quiet Sundays in the country or to provide a highly coloured object on a table in a studio apartment." One of the most famous owners of an Olivetti Valentine was David Bowie.
- Corners sl. worn; boardedges some rubbed spots. Good copy.
Rasch, H. and B. (ed.). Gefesselter Blick. 25 kurze Monografien und Beiträge über neue Werbegestaltung. Baden, Lars Müller, 1996, 111p., num. ills., orig. limp cl. w. perspex frontcover, 4to.
= Facs. reprint of the ed. Stuttgart, 1930.
- Dustwr. sl. worn and backstrip browned. = With owner's entry "von Franz Düwaer 14.10.'38 Hajo Rose".
AND 8 others by/ on the same, mainly small publications, i.a. IDEM, Contemporary Typography (Pittsburgh, The New Laboratory Press, 1961, printed in 500 copies, orig. wr., 4to); IDEM, Der chinesische Stempel; Ursprung des Buchdrucks (Basel, 1972, ills., orig. wr., private edition, not for the trade); P. BARNES (ed.), Jan Tschichold, Reflections and reappraisels (New York, 1995, ills., printed in 200 copies, orig. wr.).
- Bookplate on upper pastedown; sm. owner's stamp on first free endpaper and sm. owner's entry on prel. blank. Dustwr. soiled/ stained and dam.
= "Ein neues Buch über zeitgemäße typographische Formgebung und über Randgebiete (Photographie, Photomontage, neue Malerei)" [blurb on front dustwr.].
Renner, P. Die Kunst der Typographie. Berlin, Frenzel & Engelbrecher "Gebrauchsgrafik" Verlag, 1939, 1st ed., 314p., ills., orig. cl.
- Some sl. occas. foxing. Backstrip sl. worn; joints partly splitting.
AND 6 others by/ on Jan Tschichold or Paul Renner, i.a. J. TSCHICHOLD, Typografische vormgeving. Dutch transl. by C. Nypels (Amst., 1938, ills., orig. cl. w. (stained/ worn) dustwr.) and C. BURKE, Paul Renner. The Art of Typography (London, 1998, ills., orig. wr. w. dustwr., large 8vo).























