Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Letterpress U.S.A., 1958
Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Contains the official report of the Sixty-Second Annual Convention of the American Photoengravers Assiociation, October 1958. Text and images are unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are lightly age toned. Binding is sturdy; the spine is creased and there is a chip in the paper at the head of the spine. Covers show some light edgewear and the lower corner of the back cover is creased. 388pp.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Photo Engravers Assn, New York, 1938
Da: Bohemian Bookworm, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Photographic marketing, merchandising monthly magazine published by photo-engravers association, oversized, colour promotion with features of the bride's home, selling art education, 1938 fashions for the bride and bridegroom, catalogs attract students, stapled 22pps. Photograph in b/w of new Golden Gate Bridge with almost no cars in sight by Will Connell, as he describes his technique. Uncommon.
Editore: Photo-engraver's Bulletin, Chicago, 1926
Da: Hyde Brothers, Booksellers, Fort Wayne, IN, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condizione: Fair. Pictorial grey paper binding rubbed at extremities and slightly cocked; spine ends & corners abraded; backstrip browned; covers soiled; owner's named inked on front cover; hinges & several points in textblock cracked; bookplate residue on front endpaper; leaf edges foxed; some insect predation to fore-edge of rear cover & last few leaves. ; In wraps; many showy b&w, color illustrations. ; 8vo; 256 pages.
Editore: American Photo-Engravers Association, 1927
Da: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. No jacket. Embossed covers shelfworn, with edgewear along spine.
Editore: American Photo-Engravers Association, Chicago, 1927
Da: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Very thick, dark faux leather/cloth over boards, with corner designs and red-winged eagle. Gilt-embossed lettering on spine, and top edge gilt. 12x15 inches. 488 pp. plus hundreds of color and bw plates. An absolutely amazing, mesmerizing volume of eye candy. A visual history of advertising, commercial design and American material culture; a history of photo-engraving and letter-press printing; with lavish colors, designs, fonts and so much more. Stunning. Could spend hours devouring these beautiful pages. With illustrations by well-known American artists that evoke a time gone by. A book that will raise your spirits simply to enjoy the talent, designs and color herein. You need this book. VG-. Previous owners bookplate inside front, contents mostly VG+ with many plates NF. Boards have some rubbing and a little bit of scuffing, otherwise clean and unmarked.
Editore: American Photo-Engravers Association, 1927
Da: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 4to in dark brown faux leather, eagle device on the front board in red and white, spine title in gilt. Front hinge cracked and rear hinge starting, but binding still firm; corners, joints and spine ends heavily rubbed; text block and illustrations fresh and vibrant.
Editore: American Photo-Engravers Association,, Chicago, IL:, 1927
Da: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Tall thick 4to. 9.5 x 12.5 x 3 in. 488 pp. With 100's of colour plates, colour printing samples, sample pages, sample papers, black & white photogravures, and more. Victorian revival publisher's embossed simulated padded leather oilcloth binding, with bald eagle in red & white on front cover, t.e.g. (slight rubbing, very slight edgewear to head of spine), still a remarkably tight NF copy of this large oversize catalogue, from the library of Ursel Colin Narver (1903-1993), presented to him by West Coast Engraving Co., Portland, Oregon as manager at the time, and later manager of the Oregon Grange Bulletin, as well as co-publisher of Better Fruit Magazine until his retirement in 1986. First edition of what many consider to be one of the best printing sample books of the Jazz Age, containing hundreds of inserted samples from the best printers across the United States, Canada, England, France, and Germany. The editor begins with a lovely colour plate on tissue of the Santa Barbara Mission for John Henry Nash in San Francisco, and then includes samples of printing and colour plates by Coles Phillips, Thomas Webb for the fashion house Hickey-Freeman Co., a line-etching on zinc of Abraham Lincoln, a stunning Stark Davis illustration of a Lincoln Motor Car Limousine, a splendid ad for Miss Tokio Hosiery, step-by-step illustrations of how illustrations are etched, photographed, blocked, printed, a stunning R.F. Heinrich illustration in five colors, embossed colour printing for Brigdens Limited Linoleum Rugs, a superb colour plate by James Daugherty for the frontispiece in Drake's Quest and so many others. Also included are articles by James Montgomery Flagg, Gilbert Grosvenor, Frederick Corley, Adolph Zuckor, and many other luminaries of the 1920s.
Editore: American Photo-Engravers Association, New Method Photo Engraving Co., 680 Howard St.],, [San Francisco, CA:, 1929
Da: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
4to. 63, [1] pp. Numerous plates, illustrations, colour illustrations, colour-register, photo illustrations. Colour-illustrated flexible covers, Art Deco zig-zag cover art (minor scuffing, edgewear, neatly rebacked), still VG copy, from the library of Bill High, w/ former ownership marking on front cover. First edition, thus, of this exceedingly scarce handbook extracted from "Achievement in Photo-Engraving" (1927), considered to by many to be one of the best printing sample books of the Jazz Age. Flader has specifically streamlined the selections of chapters, and illustrations from the massive work offering step-by-step illustrations of how photo-engravings are etched, photographed, blocked, printed, together with instructions on uses of colour and colour balance. The American Photo-Engravers Association specifically contracted with assorted Photo-Engraving printers across the country to issue these in various locales. Worldcat locates 9 copies (NYHSL, Grolier, Newberry, Phil. Mus. of Art, U So. Carolina, SMU, State Lib. Victoria, SFPL, & Victoria & Albert).
Da: Richard Neylon, St Marys, TAS, Australia
EUR 219,94
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrellohardcover. Condizione: very good. Chicago, American Photo-Engravers Association 1927. Thick quarto moulded mock leather; hundreds of plates in colour and black and white, some embossed, on a variety of papers. Signs of use but nothing drastic. American commercial printing and graphic art at its peak; a self composed hymn to photo-engraving, which gave birth to advertising art according to the prefatory note. And much like virgin mothers, photo-engraving was soon to be ancient history. *This item might cost more to post than quoted by abe.