Printing-Related Books for Sale

FOR SALE. BOOKS ABOUT PRINTING AND BEN FRANKL

Shipping in USA only. First book $7. Each additional $3.

BOOKS ABOUT PRINTING AND TYPE

Teaching Apprentices in the Printing Trades/UTA Dept. Education/1922/$15

From Xylographs to Lead Molds/Rapid Electrotype Co/1921/$10/Fair condition

Presswork/William J. Kelly/1894/$35

Writing & Illuminating & Lettering 18th Impression/1939/Edward Johnson/$25

Printing works like this. An illustrated introduction/John A. Spellman/$10

The First Printing in Kentucky/William Rouse Jillson/1936/$25 /292 of 350

The SP Century. Boston’s Society of Printers through 100 Years of Change/Scott-Martin Kosofsky Ed./$30

The Practice of Printing/Ralph & Edwin Polk/ 7th Edition/1971/$30/Kelsey Company information sticker on title page

Elementary Platen Presswork. Ralph Polk/1931/$35/Type handset by author

Printers and Printing/David Pottinger/Harvard University Press 1941/$30/worn

Manuale Typographicum/Hermann Zapf/Paper/$35

Victoria Calling Cards. Creating beautiful business and calling cards/1992/$10

The Complete Engraver. Monograms, crests, ciphers, seals, and the etiquette of social stationary. Nancy Sharon Collins/2012/$10

Book Crafts for Juniors/A.F. Collins/1965/$25

The Centaur Types Rev. Ed./Bruce Rogers/1949/$35/Paper

The Devil’s Companion. A guidebook for new students in the Groton School Press/George Harvey/1981/$15/Paper

Painted Rock to Printed Page. The story of writing and printing/Frances Rogers/1960/$5/Ex library, library binding

Color Image Scale by the author of A Book of Colors/Shigenobu Kobayashi translated by Louella Matsnunga/1990/$10/Paper

Giambattista Bodoni. The complete Manual of Typography. ABCD. With an essay on Bodoni’s Typography in historical perspective by Stephan Fussel. A complete reproduction of a typographical masterwork/$35

Thinking in Type. The practical philosophy of typography/Alex W. White.2005/$25/Paper

History of Typefounding in the United States. A Typophiles monograph/Edited and annotated from the holograph manuscript by James Eckman/1981/David Bruce/$40/Paper

International Paper Pocket Pal for Printers, Estimators and Advertising Production Managers.6th Edition/1960/$10/Paper

Fashions in American Typography 1780-1930. With brief illustrated stories of the life and environment of the American people in seven periods and demonstrations of E.G.G’s fresh note. American Period Typography/Edmund C. Gress/1931/$40

John Johnson: Typographia or the Printer’s Instructor 1824/Republished in 1966 by Gregg Press Ltd./$30

Pocket Pal. A graphic arts digest for printers and advertising production managers.9th edition/1966/$10/Paper

Pocket Pal for Printers, Estimators and Advertising Production Managers. 8th edition/1964/$10/Paper

John Pitts. Ballad Printer of Seven Dials, London 1765-1844 with a short account of his predecessors in the ballad & chapbook trade/Leslie Shepard1969/$15

Primer, Presses, and Composing sticks. Women Printers of the Colonial Period/Richard L. Demeter/1979/$20

Printing Primer/Harley E. Jackson/1948/$20/Paper

Giambattista Bodoni. His Life and His World/Valerie Lester/2015/$20

Maud Humphrey. Her permanent imprint on American Illustration. A century of Charm/Karen Choppa & Paul Humphrey/1993/$10

Essays Honoring Lawrence C. Wroth/1951/$50

The Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler. Inventor of the Linotype/Edited and researched by Carl Schlesinger with an introduction by Elizabeth Harris/1989/$15

Modern Printing. A handbook of the principles and practice of typography and the auxiliary arts. Section III. Press and Machine work. Color Printing/John Southward/1899/$25

Modern Printing. A handbook of the principles and practice of typography and the auxiliary arts. Section I. The composing room/John Southward/1898/$25

Modern Printing. A handbook of the principles and practice of typography and the auxiliary arts. Volume 2. 6th Edition/1936/John Southward/$25

Illustration and Reproduction/John R. Biggs/1950/$25
TDR. The typographic desk reference. 2nd edition/Theo Rosendorf/2016/$15/Paper

Vocational Printing/Ralph W. Polk/1918/$25

Printing for Pleasure. Extensively revised edition with a new foreword by Vivian Ridler/John Ryder/1976/$20

Printing for School and shop. A textbook for printers’ apprentices, continuation classes, and for general use in schools/Frank S. Henry/1917/$25

A Chronology of Printing/Colin Clair/1969/$25

The Practice of Printing/Ralph W. Polk/1937/$25/Type handset by the author

On the Making and Issuing of Books/Charles Thomas Jacobi. Manager of the Chiswick Press/MDCCCXCI/$35

Making Type Work/Benjamin Sherbow/1918/$35

The Story of Frederic W. Goudy. Printed for the Goudy Centennial, 1965, at the Peter Pauper Press Mt. Vernon, NY/Peter Beilenson/$30

John Howard Benson & His Work. With a preface by Lawrence C. Wroth and an Introduction by Rudolph Ruzicka. Typophile Chap Book Number Thirty-one/Philio Hofer/1957/$35

Introduction to Typography/Oliver Simon/1954/$10/Paper

About Alphabets. Some marginal notes on type design/Herman Zapf/$10/Paper

Typologia. Studies in Type design & type making with comments on the invention of typography. The first types legibility and fine printing/Frederic W. Goudy/1977/$20/Paper

How Typography Happens/Ruari McLean/2000/$15/Paper

Roman Lettering for Students/James Bostock1959/$10/Ex library

Graphic Arts/Darvey E. Carlsen/1958/$15

Printing and the Mind of Man. Catalog of the Exhibitions at the British Museum and at Earls Court, London 16-27 July 1963/$25

Pocket Pal. A graphic arts production handbook/16th edition/1995/$5

Abel Buell of Connecticut. Silversmith, Typefounder & Engraver/Lawrence C. Wroth/$35

Printing History. The Journal of the American Printing History Association. Vol I, Number 1, 1979 to Vol XIV, Number 1, 1991/$100, whole lot/Note: Special shipping cost for the whole lot $25

BOOKS ABOUT BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

B. Franklin Wit. Souvenir of Printing week/1957$10/ Illustrated with wood engravings of John De Pol

Benjamin Franklin in Scotland and Ireland 1759 and 1771/J. Bennett Nolan/1938/$25

Fart Proudly. Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School/Carl Japikse editor/1990/$10/Paper

The Man Who Dared the Lightning. A New Look at Benjamin Franklin/Thomas Fleming/1971/$15

Benjamin Franklin/David Freeman Hawke/1976/$15

Benjamin Franklin. 1706-1790/ Charles Burlingame MD/1949/$15

Benjamin Franklin. 1706-1906.The 200th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin. Celebration by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the City of Boston in Symphony Hall, Boston January 17, 1906/1906/$75/Ex library, worn gold stamped cover

Franklin on the Choice of a Mistress & other Satires and Hoaxes of Dr. Benjamin Franklin/Illustrated by Herb Roth for the Peter Pauper Press. Mount Vernon, New York/$25

General Benjamin Franklin. The military career of a philosopher/J. Bennett Nolan/1936/$25

The Life of Benjamin Franklin; with many choice anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers/M.L. Weems/1883/$15/Fair condition, cover worn

Mr. Franklin. A selection from his personal letters. Edited by Leonard W. Labaree and Whitfield J. Bell/1956/$25

Becoming Benjamin Franklin. The autobiography and the life/Ormond Seavey/1988/$25

Benjamin Franklin/Carl Van Doren/1938/$20
The Life of Benjamin Franklin. Volume 1. Journalist 1706-1730/J.A. Leo LeMay/2006/$25/Ex Library

The Life of Benjamin Franklin. Printer and Publisher, 1730-1747 Volume 2/J.A. Leo LeMay/2006/$25/Ex library

B. Franklin. He snatched the lightning from heaven, and the sceptre from tyrants/Keepsake of Printing Week 1956/$10/ Illustrated with wood engravings of John De Pol

Admiral Franklin? Yes, Admiral Franklin/Keepsake of Printing Week 1975/$10/ Illustrated with wood engravings of John De Pol

Franklin was There/Keepsake of Printing Week 1962/$10/ Illustrated with wood engravings of John De Pol

B. Franklin Inventor/Keepsake of Printing Week 1960/$10/ Illustrated with wood engravings of John De Pol

Sheep Will Never make Insurrections and some other bon mots of Bon Homme Richard/Typophile Monograph No. 125/1973/$25/Illustrated with wood engravings of John De Pol

Articles of Belief. Written November 20, 1728/Keepsake of Printing Week 1966/$10/ Illustrated with wood engravings of John De Pol

The American Printer. The business paper of the American printing industry. Franklin Bi-Centennial Number January 20, 1923/$85

On rue Happiness/Keepsake of Printing Week 1958/$10/ Illustrated with wood engravings of John De Pol

Benjamin Franklin on Industry, Frugality, and thrift/edited by Nathan Goodman for the Franklin Institute/1938/$10

Benjamin Franklin on Honesty/ edited by Nathan G. Goodman for the Franklin Institute/1938/$10

Atlantic Cousins. Benjamin Franklin and His Visionary Friends/Jack Fuchtman, Jr./2005/$5

The Franklin Centennial Celebration. Philadelphia 1906/$35

Benjamin Franklin. An illustrated history of his life and times/2010/$5

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