A r tommasini (24 risultati)

#639 of 800 copies. Privately Printed. Near Fine to Fine condition. Color frontispiece. Tiny hardcover book handsomely done.

Hardcover. Condizione: Collectible-Fine. No. 108 of 900 copies printed. Original publisher's green paper-covered boards with black lettering on front cover and spine. Black and red illustrated flower decorations on front cover. Book in original printed manila envelope hand-addressed in black ink by A. R. Tommasini. Envelope addressed to "Ms. Beatrice Warde" of London. Envelope has a purple Andrew Jackson stamp in upper-right corner on front. Printed holiday greeting from Tommasini laid in: "This little book, number twenty-one in a series of Christmas Keepsakes, comes to you with Holiday Greetings from A. R. 'Tommy' Tommasini." Book: 3 1/2" x 5 1/4." Envelope: 4" x 6 1/2." Thirty-one pages, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for slightly bumped tips at top. Covers are likewise virtually pristine and intact except for slightly bumped tips at top. Binding is tight. Manila envelope is clean and intact overall but has cancellation marks and other mailing labels and moderate wear to extremities. A Fine book in a Very Good manila envelope. A collection of eight reprinted messages about printing by A. R. Tommasini. The messages are titled, "The Future Has a Stake in US," "Progress Can't Get Ahead of Printers," "Printing Is More Than Putting Ink on Paper," "The Unknown Partner Is the Faithful Printer," "The Help of Good Counsel Setteth Business Straight," "We Owe Some of Our Time to Building Up What We Do," "Sharing Our Knowledge Means Letting Everyone Have His Say," and "Times of Stress Are Times for Success." Front colophon: "This is twenty-first in a series of Christmas keepsakes for the friends of A. R. T., Christmas, 1968." Back colophon: "Nine hundred copies of this Christmas keepsake have been printed in December of 1968. The text type face is 10-point Monotype Van Dijck composed by Mackenzie & Harris. The display and title page type hand-set by A. R. T. in Monotype Univers Medium. Printed by A. R. T. on a 10 x 15 Chandler & Price platen press. The paper for the text is Gray Standard Vellum Opaque. The cover and end papers is Juniper Linweave Textra. This is copy number 108.".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Collectible-Fine. 1st Edition. No. 479 of 800 copies. No. 20 in A. R. Tommasini's Christmas Keepsakes series. Original publisher's red cloth binding. 3 5/8" x 5 1/4." Thirty-seven pages, complete. Twenty-four plates, complete. Gilt fleur-de-lis decoration on front cover. Endpapers have red and white fleur-de-lis pattern. Colophon in back with information on the book's printing and the edition number. Original card laid-in with "ART" (A. R. Tommasini's initials) emblem: "This booklet, number twenty in a series of Christmas Keepsakes, comes to you with Holiday Greetings from A. R. Tommy Tommasini." Pages and covers are clean; binding is tight. A pristine, fine copy. A. R. Tommasini briefly discusses printers' marks, their often cryptic symbolism, and why he believes they are an example of high-quality graphic design that should be revived today. Twenty-four plates of example printers' marks are included. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Doedecimo under 6" - 7". 33pp A very good copy in textured cloth, paper label. 1/200 numbered copies. this copy#76 A fine copy bound in olive and white cloth , paper label on the front cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Collectible-Fine. 1st Edition. No. 777 of 800 copies. No. 19 in A. R. Tommasini's Christmas Keepsakes series. Original publisher's blue cloth binding. 3 3/4" x 5 1/4." Twenty-eight pages, complete. Gilt United Nations emblem and decorative border on front cover. Original white card (with impressed United Nations emblem decoration) laid-in: "This booklet, number nineteen in a series of Christmas Keepsakes, comes to you with Holiday Greetings from A. R. Tommy Tommasini." Pages and covers are clean; binding is tight. A pristine, fine copy. A. R. Tommasini provides an introduction about the United Nations Charter, the foundational treaty of the United Nations. The fourteen pages following the introduction are photographic reprints of several pages from the Charter. The Charter was originally printed in two volumes and came in the five languages, English, French, Spanish, Chinese, and Russian. Two copies available: other copy is No. 744.…

Condizione: Good. 32mo. Folded Page, Very Good with minor creasing. Tricolor letterpress on laid paper.

Condizione: Good. 16mo. [ca 24 pp.]. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Illustrated paper covered boards. Glassine dust jacket. Stitch binding. Color illustrations. From a series of Christmas keepsakes by A.R. Tommasini. Tommy Tommasini began publishing the keepsakes on Christmas 1948 which were mailed in decorative mailing envelopes in limited editions of 50 to 950 copies. Inset laid in.Excerpts from the author's The Graphic Arts, originally published in London in 1882.…

Condizione: Good. 16mo. 19 pp. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Illustrated paper covered boards. Glassine dust jacket. Stitch binding. Color illustrations. From a series of Christmas keepsakes by A.R. Tommasini. Tommy Tommasini began publishing the keepsakes on Christmas 1948 which were mailed in decorative mailing envelopes in limited editions of 50 to 950 copies. Inset laid in.Excerpts from the author's Windfalls of observation, originally published in 1893.…

Condizione: Good. 16mo. 28 pp. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Gilt decorated cloth covered boards in glassine dust jacket. Stitch binding. illustrations throughout. Nineteenth in a series of Christmas keepsakes by A.R. Tommasini. Tommy Tommasini began publishing the keepsakes on Christmas 1948 which were mailed in decorative mailing envelopes in limited editions of 50 to 950 copies. Inset laid in.…

Condizione: Good. 16mo. 13 pp. Very Good+. Soft Cover. Illustrated paper wraps with French folds. Staple binding. Color illustrations throughout. Twenty-sixth in a series of Christmas keepsakes by A.R. Tommasini. Tommy Tommasini began publishing the keepsakes on Christmas 1948 which were mailed in decorative mailing envelopes in limited editions of 50 to 950 copies. Inset laid in.…

Condizione: Good. 16mo. 30 pp. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Gilt illustrated paper covered boards. Glassine dust jacket. Stitch binding. Color illustrations throughout. Seventeenth in a series of Christmas keepsakes by A.R. Tommasini. Tommy Tommasini began publishing the keepsakes on Christmas 1948 which were mailed in decorative mailing envelopes in limited editions of 50 to 950 copies. Inset laid in.…

Condizione: Good. 16mo. 30 pp. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Illustrated paper covered boards. Glassine dust jacket. Stitch binding. Color illustrations and sketches throughout. Twenty-third in a series of Christmas keepsakes by A.R. Tommasini. Tommy Tommasini began publishing the keepsakes on Christmas 1948 which were mailed in decorative mailing envelopes in limited editions of 50 to 950 copies. Reprint of article from the Dec. 1967 issue of California monthly. Inset laid in.…

Condizione: Good. 16mo. [ca 24 pp.]. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Illustrated paper covered boards. Glassine dust jacket. Stitch binding. Color illustrations. From a series of Christmas keepsakes by A.R. Tommasini. Tommy Tommasini began publishing the keepsakes on Christmas 1948 which were mailed in decorative mailing envelopes in limited editions of 50 to 950 copies. Text type face 10-point Linotype Granjon and printed on Strathmore Impress Book White. The cover paper is Tweedweave Text Forest Green.Excerpts from the author's The Graphic Arts, originally published in London in 1882.…

Condizione: Good. 16mo. 31 pp. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Illustrated paper covered boards. Glassine dust jacket. Stitch binding. Color illustrations throughout. Twenty-first in a series of Christmas keepsakes by A.R. Tommasini. Tommy Tommasini began publishing the keepsakes on Christmas 1948 which were mailed in decorative mailing envelopes in limited editions of 50 to 950 copies. Text type face 10-point Monotype Van Dijck composed by Mackenzie & Harris. Inset laid in.Selections from contributions made by A. R. Tommasini as President of the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen in 1955-1956 for the Association's monthly publication "Share your knowledge review"Contents:The future had a stake in US --Progress can't get ahead of printers --Printing is more than putting ink on paper --The unknown partner is the faithful printer --The help of good counsel setteth business straight --We own some of our time to building up what we do --Sharing our knowledge means letting everyone have his say --Times of stress are times for success.…

Condizione: Good. 16mo. 19 pp. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Illustrated cloth covered boards. Stitch binding. Illustrations. From a series of Christmas keepsakes by A.R. Tommasini. Tommy Tommasini began publishing the keepsakes on Christmas 1948 which were mailed in decorative mailing envelopes in limited editions of 50 to 950 copies.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good +. Dust Jacket Included. Illustrated paper covered boards. 16mo. Numbered 42 of an edition limited to 500 copies. 18 pp. Very good +, in like Glassine dust jacket. Minor sun fading to spine and extremities. Color pages, illustrated in black & white with sketches throughout.…

Condizione: Good. 16mo. 18 pp. Very Good. Hard Cover. Illustrated paper covered boards. Glassine dust jacket. Minor discoloration to spine and top edge. Stitch binding. Color pages and sketches throughout. Eleventh in a series of Christmas keepsakes by A.R. Tommasini. Tommy Tommasini began publishing the keepsakes on Christmas 1948 which were mailed in decorative mailing envelopes in limited editions of 50 to 950 copies. Scarce.…

Condizione: Good. 16mo. 19 pp. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Illustrated paper covered boards. Glassine dust jacket. Stitch binding. Color illustrations. From a series of Christmas keepsakes by A.R. Tommasini. Tommy Tommasini began publishing the keepsakes on Christmas 1948 which were mailed in decorative mailing envelopes in limited editions of 50 to 950 copies. Inset laid in. Inset autographed and inscribed by A R Tommasini on verso.This essay, acknowledging the important but often overlooked contributions of printers to the work of writers and publishers, first appeared in The Christian Science Monitor on Thursday, February 3, 1927. Odell Shepard was an American professor, poet, and politician who was the 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943; Shepard won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.…

Condizione: Good. 16mo. [ca 26 pp.]. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Illustrated paper covered boards. Glassine dust jacket. Stitch binding. Color illustrations. Deckled pages. From a series of Christmas keepsakes by A.R. Tommasini. Tommy Tommasini began publishing the keepsakes on Christmas 1948 which were mailed in decorative mailing envelopes in limited editions of 50 to 950 copies. Text set in ten-point Monotype Casolon Old Style and printed on white Victorian Text. The cover is Kivar 5 White Crush. Inset laid in. Scarce.…

Condizione: Good. 16mo. 24 pp. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Illustrated cloth covered boards. Glassine dust jacket. Stitch binding. Illustrations. From a series of Christmas keepsakes by A.R. Tommasini. Tommy Tommasini began publishing the keepsakes on Christmas 1948 which were mailed in decorative mailing envelopes in limited editions of 50 to 950 copies. Inset laid in. Scarce.Abridged from the description in the Quarterly Review for December, 1839.…

Lafayette, CA, Lester Lloyd, 1978. Cloth with title ticket. (8), 36 p. Handset in Bruce Rogers' Centaur and Goudy's Hadriano and printed in red and black in 200 numbered copies. 1st edition. Very good condition. This special copy is not numbered: it is the printer's copy, stating the fact in red under the colophon. With an introduction by "Tommy" Tomasini and a list of the "Fortunate Few" including their full address! Amadeo R. Tommasini, typographer of the University of California Press, produced 31 Christmas wish books starting from 1948.…

Condizione: Good. 16mo. [ca 25 pp.]. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Illustrated paper covered boards. Quarter cloth binding. Glassine dust jacket. Two inch tear along edge of jacket. Stitch binding. From a series of Christmas keepsakes by A.R. Tommasini. Tommy Tommasini began publishing the keepsakes on Christmas 1948 which were mailed in decorative mailing envelopes in limited editions of 50 to 950 copies. Inset laid in.From Hazlitt's essay, which first appeared in the London magazine, September, 1820; reprinted in his two volume collection of essays entitled The plain speaker, in 1827.…

5 issues, 3.75" x 5.25" (each), fine press books;1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, and 1973. A collection of 5 self-published books containing musings, commentary, and world views from the author, originally given out as gifts. CONTENTS: "May there by peace among all the nations" pp. [32], privately printed by A.R. "Tommy" Tommasini, 1966.Number 62 out of 800 printed copies. Very good; in mylar cover. "Tommy's messages" pp. [10], 31, [3]. Privately printed by A.R. "Tommy" Tommasini, San Francisco, California, 1968.Number 297 out of 900 printed copies. Very good; in mylar,includes tip-in. "Christmas as a reflection of American culture" by Alan Dundes, pp. [6], 30, [4]. Privately Printed by A.R. Tommasini, 1970.Number 336 out of 900 printed copies. Very good; in mylar cover. "Tommy's twenty-five" by Harold A. Small, pp. [64]. Privately printed by A.R. Tommasini, 1972. Number 508 out of 950 printed copies. Very good; in mylar cover,includes tip-in. "Ten racy recipes" by P. K. Thomajan, pp. [24]. Privately printed by A.R. "Tommy" Tommasini, 1973.Number 432 out of 700 printed copies. Very good,blue cover boards gently toned but good appearance; includes tip-in. .…

24mo, 6 in original printed mailing envelopes, all fine or better in original bindings, boards and wrappers. Includes his 25th keepsake (a bibliography of the previous 24), 2 illustrated by DePol, a bicentennial number, with text by Isaac Asimov, several other titles on printing, one on Christmas, etc., all limited to 600-900 copies, many shared with the Roxburgh Club; includes one duplicate. Small handsomely produced chapbooks. Others include: Printers' marks, curious and challenging, 1967; 2. Xxx plus one, 1978; 3. Printing then and now, 1971; 4. Pages from the forty-two line Gutenberg Bible printed in minuscule facsimile, 1969; 5. Tommy's messages, 1968; 6. May there be peace among all nations, 1966 (his importance as an historic printer is his design and printing of the original UN charter, and this little book recaps the story of same); and B. Franklin, inventor, 1974. …