"The Big Boss" Lobby Cards
Great Britain: National Screen Service Ltd., 1971. No Binding. 8" x 10" Seven colour 8" x 10" photo lobby cards for the 1971 Bruce Lee film. A few bumps, else fine. More
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"Don't Knock the Twist" Lobby Cards
USA: Columbia Pictures, 1962. No Binding. 8" x 10" Five B&W 8" x 10" photo lobby cards. Cards a little curled, some bumping and age toning to extremities, a few spots of soiling. Very good overall. More
Flips 6: Celebrities
Wanchai, Hong Kong: Systems Design Limited, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (square). Pictorial boards, 244pp, contains DVD. Light rubbing to boards, small soil to upper rear board otherwise near fine. A variety of ads and ad genres from more than thirty international agencies. More
"For the Love of Ivy" Lobby Cards
USA: Cinema Releasing Corporation, 1968. No Binding. 8" x 10" Eight colour 8" x 10" photo lobby cards for the Sidney Poitier film For the Love of Ivy, directed by Daniel Mann. More
"Ghost" Lobby Cards [7 pieces]
Paramount Pictures, 1990. No Binding. Seven 8" x 10" lobby cards with colour photo stills from the movie. Light bumping to corners. Small perforations from push pin removal. Near fine. More
"Papillon" Lobby Card
Great Britain: National Screen Service, 1973. No Binding. 8" x 10" Colour photo lobby card. "On the prison ship bound for the penal colony in French Guyana, Papillon first meets the forger, Louis Dega. Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman in a scene from the epic adventure of escape." A few..... More
Building Strong Brands
New York: The Free Press, 1996. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter blue cloth, white paper boards. ix, 380 pp. Dust jacket lightly bumped to edges. Fine. More
American Specimen Book of Type Styles: Complete Catalogue of Printing Machinery and Printed Material.
Jersey City: American Type Founders Company, 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo (tall). Burgundy red cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, 1301 pp. Illustrated. Interior clean, bright, but boards and corners somewhat worn. A very good copy. More
6 Chapters in Design
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997. Soft cover. 8vo (small). Paperback, 368pp. Illustrated. Light rubbing to spine and extremities, o/w near fine. Celebrating the evolution of design with influential designers Bass, Chermayeff, Glaser, Rand, Tanaka and Tomaszewski. More
Customers as Partners: Building Relationships That Last
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1996. Soft cover. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription to inside front cover. Soft cover. xv, 236 pp. Sticker ghost to rear cover, else fine. More
Benham's Book of Printing Types
Chancery: Benham & Company Ltd, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Brown cloth lettered in white, 39, plus [22]pp of printed specimens. Fading on spine and front board otherwise near fine. More
The Art of Lettering and Sign Painters' Manual: A Complete and Practical Illustration of the Art of Sign Writing
Boston: A. Williams and Company, 1878. 4th Edition. Hardcover. 15" x 9" Fourth edition. Green blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering to front board, beveled edges. 29 ff., [13 ff.]. Previously rebacked. Damp staining to cloth, chafing to extremities. Ink ownership stamp of John W. Keene to every leaf and endpapers. Numerous..... More
Your Attention, Please. How to Appeal to Today's Distracted, Disinterested, Disengaged, Disenchanted, and Busy Audiences
Avon, MA: Adams Media, an F+W Publications Company, 2006. Soft cover. Softcover. SIGNED by both Authors on title-page. A near fine copy. More
Field Day Golf Tournament and Dinner, An Old American Custom for Commonwealth Country Club
Victoria, Australia: Commonwealth Country Club, 1940. No Binding. 8.5" x 15.5" 8.5" x 15.5" poster. Printed by T.J. Lyons Press, Allston-Boston. Lightly edge toned, else fine. Commonwealth Country Club opened in Victoria, Australia in 1921, and was the site of the 1967 Australian Open. More
Ford Falcon 61 Sedans and Station Wagons
Canada: Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd., 1961. Soft cover. 10.5" x 7.75" Oblong bifold brochure, staple bound. 12 pp. Colour photographs, specs and diagrams. Fine condition. More
Graphica 1970, 1971, 1972: 3 Years of the Best in Canadian Advertising
Montreal: Graphica Club, 1972. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 8.5" x 7.5" Oblong soft cover. 438 pp. Covers are creased and rubbed, short tears to tail of rear cover repaired with tape. Damp staining to upper corner of text block. Interior deeply age toned. More
Old Sox on Trumpeting
Chicago: Consolidated Book Publishers, Inc., 1928. Hardcover. 8vo (small). Third Edition. Original red and black jacket with greek key patterns on front and rear cover, in bright red cloth. 379 pp., illustrated throughout, pages lightly browned, dampstain on lower front pastedown and lower corner of front board, small blue and..... More
Graphic Styles from Victorian to Post Modern
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Orig. grey boards Graphic endpapers. 239 pp. Fully illustrated. Sunning to spine and offset pane to front board, else fine. More
Handbook of Early Advertising Art, Mainly from American Sources
New York: Dover Publications, 1956. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Typographical and Ornamental Volume. Third edition. Orig. orange cloth. Light chafing to extremities, wear to corners, fraying to spine foot, owner stamp to front pastedown, else fine. Expanded with a new collection of initials and alphabets selected by Alexander Nesbitt. More
The Invisible Roll Screen
Brooklyn, NY: Invisible Roll Screen Co. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 3.5" x 6" N.d., [ca. 1920s?] Orig. wrappers with window. 16 pp. B&W illustration. Wrappers soiled, staples rusted. Centre leaf detached. More
Japanese Graphics Now!
Koln: Taschen, 2006. Hardcover. 12mo. 349pp. Small bump to foot of spine, jacket rubbed and creased with small wear to foot of jacket spine otherwise very good overall. An exploration of Japanese culture through visual advertising and marketing. More
Phillip's Old Fashioned Type Book
Frederick Nelson Phillips, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Blue cloth, 225pp. Handsomely illustrated with a variety of rich type faces. Boards lightly soiled, otherwise near fine. "Approximately one thousand odd fonts of old-fashioned, exotic, ancient and antique typefaces." More
The Trademarks of Paul Rand: A Selection
New York: George Wittenborn, Inc., 1960. Soft cover. 9.5" x 9.5" Review copy. Soft cover. Unpaged, unopened, features 12 trademarks and accompanying graphic art. Covers are age toned, some staining to top and tail of covers. Corners curled. Acid migration from tape inside covers (affixing glassine wrapper). Orig. glassine jacket..... More
The IBM Way: Insights Into the World's Most Successful Marketing Organization
New York: Harper & Row, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. SIGNED with inscription from Buck Rodgers to half-title. Orig. blue cloth. Front board bowed, foxing to cloth. Presentation bookplate from Harry T. Seymour to ffep. Dust jacket is price clipped, slightly warped to head of front cover. More
A Book of American Trade-Marks & Devices
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1924. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 4to. LIMITED edition, #1077/2050. Quarter black cloth, printed paper boards. 64 pp. Fully illustrated with engravings. Unopened at head, but only printed to open pages. Spine and joints sunned, edges rubbed, corners worn, some light staining to boards. Ex libris stamp..... More