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100 Affiches de Paul Colin $90.00 - sold	100 Best Posters of 1941 $135.00 - sold	100 Posters of Paul Colin $60.00 - sold
101 Alphabets $45.00 - sold	15th Annual of Advertising Art $45.00	17th Art Directors Annual of Advertising Art $85.00
1930's Commercial Art $45.00 - sold	25th Annual of Advertising and Editorial Art $45.00	31st Annual of National Advertising and Editorial Art $45.00
6th Annual of Advertising Art $100.00	A Book of American Trademarks & Devices $150.00 - sold	A Book of Hebrew Letters $25.00 - sold
A Book on the Art of Ps and Qs: A Book on the Art of Letter Arrangement $65.00 - sold	A Complete Guide to Drawing, Illustration, Cartooning and Painting $65.00 - sold	A Concise History of Posters: 1870-1970 $45.00 - sold
A Handbook of Type and Illustration $70.00	A Show at Sho' Cards, Comprehensive, Complete, Concise $155.00	A' Dilettanti Delle Bell'Arti $30.00 - sold
A. M. Cassandre $175.00	A.T.A. Type Comparison Book $24.00	ABC of Lettering and Print Types: Volumes A, B, & C $285.00 - sold
About Alphabets: Some Marginal Notes on Type Design $110.00	Advertisement Copy and Layouts A Working Textbook for All Who Originate or Write Advertisements $28.00	Advertising Display Parts 1&2, #539B $35.00
Advertising in America: the First 200 Years $65.00 - sold	Advertising Layout...The Projection of an Idea $28.00	AIGA Journal Vol. 4 No. 3 & 4 $20.00 - sold
Alphabets $85.00 - sold	Alphabets $85.00 - sold	American Culture and the Marketplace $20.00
American Poster '63 $50.00	American Wood Type: 1828-1900 $135.00 - sold	American Wood Type: 1828-1900; Notes on the Evolution of Decorated and Large Types $65.00 - sold
Annual of American Design 1931 $600.00	Art and Publicity: Fine Printing and Design $200.00	Art and the Alphabet $35.00 - sold
Art Deco Package Collection $195.00	Art Directors Club of Chicago Portfolio 31 $28.00 - sold	Art Monograms and Lettering, Vols. 1-2 $200.00
Artistic Signs: How to Design and Make Them, #343 $175.00 - sold	Artists at Curwen $30.00 - sold	Artists Guild Annual: A Yearly Exhibit in Book Form of Work by Members of the Artists Guild of New York 1939 $28.00
Arts et Metiers Graphiques, No. 49, October 1935 $175.00	Avant-Garde Page Design: 1900-1950 $85.00	Banta Book of Types & Typographical Tips $40.00
Barnhart Brothers & Spindler Type Superior Printing Plant Equipment, Catalog 25 $285.00 - sold	Barnhart Brothers & Spindler Type Superior Printing Plant Equipment, Catalog 25A $285.00	Bauhaus and Bauhaus People $45.00 - sold
Ben Day $95.00	British Modern: Graphic Design Between the Wars $25.00	Brodovitch $450.00 - sold
Brush Practice-Lettering Styles, #39 $40.00 - sold	California Cool: West Coast Jazz of the 50s & 60s, the Album Cover Art $45.00	Calling Cards: Creating Beautiful Business and Calling Cards $18.00 - sold
Catalogue of Keuffel & Esser Co. $150.00	Circle. International Survey of Constructive Art $85.00 - sold	Colour in Advertising $200.00 - sold
Colour in Advertising $30.00	Commercial Art & Design: the Study of Color $35.00	Commercial Art Advertising Layout $75.00 - sold
Commercial Art, Vol. 19 $145.00	Commercial Art, Volume VI $175.00	Commercial Illustrating and Cartooning, ICS #150 $150.00
Commercial Show Cards, #43 $40.00 - sold	Commercial Signs, #44 $50.00 - sold	Composition and Rendering $30.00
Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers $250.00	Constructive Cover Designing $850.00 - sold	Davids' Practical Letterer $65.00 - sold
Deco Espana: Graphic Design of the Twenties and Thirties $35.00	Design and Form The Basic Course at the Bauhaus $64.00 - sold	Design and Printing in the Netherlands $48.00 - sold
Design Fundamentals $65.00	Design in the Service of Beauty: An Appreciation of the Advertising and Packaging of Beauty Products for Women $65.00	Designers in Britain 5 $65.00
Designing with Type: A Basic Course in Typography $35.00	Drawing the Fashion Figure, 350 Original Fashion Figures and How to Draw Them; How to Draw Fashion Figures that Sell $175.00 - sold	Dutch Moderne: Graphic Design from De Stijl to Deco $45.00
Dynamic Display $50.00	Early Modernism: Swiss & Austrian Trademarks 1920-1950 $40.00	Electronics–A New Science for a New World $400.00 - sold
Exempla Graphica $150.00 - sold	Exhibitions and Displays $250.00 - sold	Fantastic Architecture $200.00 - sold
Fantastic Architecture $250.00 - sold	Fashions in American Typography: 1780-1930 $35.00	Fifty Books Exhibited by the Institute $85.00
Film & TV Graphics $30.00 - sold	Fit for a King: The Merle Armitage Book of Food $45.00 - sold	Flair Annual, 1953 $95.00 - sold
Flight Thru Instruments: NAVAER 00-80W-7 $250.00 - sold	Fortune: The Art of Covering Business $55.00 - sold	Fourth Annual of Advertising Art $80.00 - sold
Fred Farrar's Type Book $40.00	French Trademarks: the Art Deco Era $40.00	Functional Graphic Design in the 20's $60.00 - sold
Gods' Man, A Novel in Woodcuts $225.00 - sold	Goethe's Color Theory $75.00 - sold	Grammar of Lettering: A Handbook of Alphabets $95.00
Graphic Arts from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 14th Edition $24.00	Graphic Arts: Typefaces, Vol. 1 $24.00	Graphic Design $125.00
Graphic Design in Germany, 1890-1945 $48.00	Graphic Design: A Library of Old and New Masters in the Graphic Arts $95.00	Graphic Design: A Library of Old and New Masters in the Graphic Arts $85.00
Graphic Forms: The Arts as Relating to the Book $65.00	Graphis Annual 1959/60 $125.00 - sold	Graphis Annual 1960/61 $125.00 - sold
Graphis Annual 1961/62 $125.00	Graphis Annual 1962/63 $125.00	Graphis Annual 1963/64 $125.00
Graphis Annual 1964/65 $125.00 - sold	Graphis Annual 1966/67 $125.00 - sold	Graphis Annual 1967/68 $125.00
Graphis Annual 1968/69 $125.00 - sold	Graphis Annual, 1960-61 $125.00 - sold	Graphis Annual, 1962-63 $110.00 - sold
Graphis Annual, 1964-65 $120.00 - sold	Graphis Diagram 1 $250.00 - sold	Graphis Diagram 1: The Graphic Visualization of Quantitative Information, Procedures, and Data $165.00 - sold
Graphis Diagrams: The Graphic Visualization of Abstract Data $250.00 - sold	Graphis Vol. 9, No. 46 $55.00 - sold	Graphis, Vol 10, No 51 $50.00 - sold
Great Ideas $95.00 - sold	Great Ideas $145.00 - sold	Great Ideas $115.00 - sold
Great Ideas $150.00	Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisement Plates $50.00 - sold	Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1954-55-56 $75.00 - sold
Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1958-59-60 $75.00 - sold	Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1958-59-60 $75.00 - sold	Great Ideas of Western Man, CCA Advertisement Plates by Paul Rand $25.00
Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1950-51-52 $75.00 - sold	Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1950-51-52 $8.00	Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1952-53-54 $75.00 - sold
Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1952-53-54 (Loose plates) $8.00 - sold	Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1954-55-56 $65.00 - sold	Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1954-55-56 $85.00 - sold
Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1956-57-58 $75.00 - sold	Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1956-57-58 $50.00 - sold	Great Ideas of Western Man, Advertisements for 1960-61-62-63 $75.00 - sold
Handbook of Designs and Motifs $40.00 - sold	Handbook of Lettering for Stitchers $125.00	Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop $75.00
Herbert Bayer: Collection and Archive at the Denver Art Museum $65.00	Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work $175.00 - sold	Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work $175.00 - sold
Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work $175.00	Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms: Guide to Correct Writing $165.00 - sold	How to Design Greeting Cards $35.00
How to Paint Signs and Sho' Cards $40.00 - sold	How to Paint Signs and Show Cards $75.00 - sold	Identity Kits: A Pictorial Survey of Visual Signals $65.00 - sold
Industrial and Applied Art Books, No. 8 $48.00	International Poster Annual '51 $75.00 - sold	Italian Art Deco: Graphic Design Between the Wars $35.00
John Heartfield: Leben und Werk, Dargestellt von seinem Bruder $300.00 - sold	L'Art Decoratif Francais 1918-1925, $575.00 - sold	Layout $28.00
Layout and Letterheads $65.00 - sold	Layout: the Design of the Printed Page $20.00	Le Spectacle Est Dans la Rue $600.00 - sold
Letter and Image $60.00	Lettera 3: A Standard Book Fine Lettering $65.00	Lettering for Brush and Pen $95.00
Lettering for Draftsmen, Engineers, and Students: A Practical System of Freehand Lettering for Working Drawings $100.00	Lettering of To-day $55.00	Lettering of Today $28.00
Lettering on Buildings $55.00 - sold	Lettering on Buildings $30.00 - sold	Lettering, Designing, Illustrating, Cartooning, Obtaining Position #150 $75.00 - sold
Lettering: The History and Technique of Lettering as Design $38.00 - sold	Lettres Modernes $55.00 - sold	Line Drawing for Reproduction $48.00
Love $195.00 - sold	Love and Joy About Letters $85.00 - sold	Ludwig Hohlwein $950.00
Ludwig Hohlwein $950.00	Making a Poster, 'How to Do It' Series, Number Nineteen $65.00	Marionette in Motion, Handbook XII $100.00 - sold
Marken und Signete $150.00 - sold	Martin's Complete Ideas for Signmen, Artists, Displaymen $85.00	Milton Glaser: Graphic Design $65.00 - sold
Mise en Page: the Theory and Practice of Lay-Out $1,500.00	Modern Art In Advertising: An Exhibition of Designs for Container Corporation of America $95.00 - sold	Modern Book Production $110.00 - sold
Modern Design in Bookbinding: The Work of Edgar Mansfield $50.00	Modern French Decorative Art $750.00 - sold	Modern Lettering and Typography $45.00
Modern Packaging Encyclopedia Issue for 1957, November 1956, Vol. 30, No. 3A $165.00	Modern Packaging Encyclopedia, 1951 $65.00 - sold	Modern Packaging Encyclopedia, 1953 $135.00
Modern Packaging Encyclopedia, 1954 $95.00 - sold	Modern Packaging, Vol. 25, No. 6, February 1952 $35.00	Modern Publicity 1935-6 $55.00 - sold
Modern Publicity 1956-7 $100.00	Modern Styles-Decorative Ornament, #40 $75.00 - sold	Modern Styles-Decorative Ornament, #40 $85.00 - sold
More Street Jewellery $48.00 - sold	Never Leave Well Enough Alone $350.00	Notes on Modern Printing $75.00
Novel Effects with Novel Gothic $35.00 - sold	Op Art $175.00 - sold	Optical Illusions and the Visual Arts $25.00 - sold
P's and Q's: A Book on the Art of Letter Arrangement $24.00 - sold	Packaging $125.00	Paragraphs on Printing $125.00
Paris, Vol. 2, 1929 $35.00	Paul Klee, Pedagogical Sketchbook $55.00 - sold	Paul Rand: A Designer's Art $250.00 - sold
Pen and Brush Lettering, #41 $40.00 - sold	Penrose Annual, Vol. 53, 1959 $85.00	Penrose Annual, Vol. 59, 1966 $45.00 - sold
Penrose's Pictorial Annual The Process Year Book 1910-11 Vol. 16 $135.00	Peter Piper's Principles of Plain & Perfect Pronunciation $55.00	Planning and Producing Posters $35.00 - sold
Plant Analysis Distemper Color Bookcover Designing Carpet Designing Oilcloth and Linoleum Designing Wallpaper Designing the American Vignola Color Harmony, #8 $185.00	PM Vol. 4 No. 6 April-May 1938 $35.00 - sold	Portfolio The Annual of the Graphic Arts $175.00 - sold
Portfolio: A Magazine for the Graphic Arts (Vol. 1, No. 3) $225.00	Poster Art in Vienna $550.00 - sold	Poster Art in Vienna $550.00 - sold
Poster Gallery: The Best Posters of 1946 $35.00	Posters & Their Designers $65.00 - sold	Posters & Their Designers $150.00 - sold
Posters American Style $60.00	Posters: Designing, Making, Reproducing $48.00 - sold	POSTERS: The Twentieth Century Poster, Design of the Avant-Garde $55.00
Postscripts on Dwiggins, Vols. I & II $95.00	Practical Graphic Figures: The Technical Side of Drawing for Cartoons and Fashions $30.00 - sold	Practical Lettering, Modern and Foreign $65.00 - sold
Practical Lettering: A Self-Instruction Guide for Beginners and Professionals in the Commercial and Applied Arts $14.00 - sold	Principles and Practice of Show-card Writing $35.00 - sold	Printed Ephemera $25.00 - sold
Printed Salesmanship, The Printing Art Quarterly, Vol. 65, No. 3 $65.00	Printing & Graphic Arts Vol. 1 No. 1 $50.00	Printing Art Quarterly Vol. 67 No. 2 $125.00 - sold
Printing Art Quarterly, Vol. 66, No.4 $95.00	Printing Design and Layout $60.00	Progressive Design for Students $80.00 - sold
Publicite et Arts Graphiques Werbung und Graphische Kunst $175.00	Publicite, March 1936 $250.00	Retail Advertising, #1004 $50.00 - sold
Revolutionary Soviet Film Posters $70.00 - sold	Revue Cenpa, No. 4 $60.00 - sold	Rising's Maureen Deckledge $55.00
Roman Cieslewicz: Master of Graphic Design $95.00	Roman Cieslewicz: Master of Graphic Design $45.00 - sold	School Art, Vol. 39, No. 2 & Vol. 37, No. 1 $30.00
Seven Designers Look at Trademark Design $125.00 - sold	Seven Designers Look at Trademark Design $250.00	Several Thoughts on Typeset Covers $75.00 - sold
Show-Card Designing, Color Schemes, #42 $48.00 - sold	Show-Card Writing, Show-Card Design and Ornament, Letter Formation, #113 $145.00 - sold	Six Chapters in Design: Saul Bass, Ivan Chermayeff, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Ikko Tanaka, Henryk Tomaszewski $55.00 - sold
Sixty (60) Alphabets $45.00 - sold	Sixty (60) Alphabets $28.00	Soviet Commerical Design of the Twenties $65.00 - sold
Specimen Book of American Line Type Faces: American Point Line, Point Body and Point Set $95.00	Specimen Type Faces at the Pitman Press $45.00 - sold	Specimens: A Stevens-Nelson Paper Catalogue $195.00 - sold
Streamline: American Art Deco Graphic Design $95.00	Strong's Book of Designs $175.00	Studio Handbook: Letter and Design for Artists and Advertisers $85.00 - sold
Studio Handbook: Letter and Design for Artists and Advertisers $95.00 - sold	Studio Handbook: Letter and Design for Artists and Advertisers $135.00 - sold	Studio Handbook: Letter and Design for Artists and Advertisers $110.00 - sold
Studio Handbook: Letter and Design for Artists and Advertisers $110.00	Style of Empire: Great Britain 1877-1947 $30.00	Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols $80.00 - sold
Technique of Advertising Layout $48.00	Techniques of Advertising Photography $25.00	Tested Display Methods $65.00 - sold
The Alphabet Makers $14.00	The American Billboard: 100 Years $65.00	The Art and Practice of Typography: A Manual of American Printing $150.00
The Art of Advertising: George Lois on Mass Communication $150.00 - sold	The Art of Decorative Design $30.00 - sold	The Art of Lettering $85.00 - sold
The Art of Lettering $95.00 - sold	The Art of Lettering $85.00	The Art of the Book $60.00
The Art of the French Book $48.00	The Art of the Label: Designs of the Times $40.00 - sold	The Art-Revival in Austria $350.00 - sold
The Book Cover: The Graphic Face of the Revolutionary Onslaught Epoch 1917-1937 $85.00 - sold	The Book Cover: The Graphic Face of the Revolutionary Onslaught Epoch 1917-1937 $85.00 - sold	The Book Cover: The Graphic Face of the Revolutionary Onslaught Epoch 1917-1937 $85.00 - sold
The Book of American Types $75.00 - sold	The Buckeye Book of Direct Advertising $30.00	The Chicago Bulletin $60.00
The Cynics Calendar of Wisdom for 1904 $48.00 - sold	The Decorative Twenties $40.00	The Decorative Work of T. M. Cleland $250.00
The Ecology of Design $12.00 - sold	The Essentials of Poster Design $140.00	The French Poster: Chéret to Cappiello $48.00
The History and Technique of Lettering $24.00	The History of Printed Scraps $65.00	The Illustrated Book: Its Art and Craft $28.00
The Isms of Art/ Die Kunstismen/ Les Ismes de l'Art $85.00 - sold	The Lakeside Press Manual of Style $95.00	The Limerick Up To Date Book $48.00 - sold
The Lost Art of Profanity $65.00	The Modern Dutch Poster: The First Fifty Years, 1890-1940 $30.00	The Modern Poster $85.00
The Modern Poster $85.00 - sold	The New Typography & Modern Layouts $150.00	The New Typography & Modern Layouts $125.00
The Packaging Catalogue of Great Britain: Packaging Annual, 1949 $195.00	The Pleasures of Pattern $45.00 - sold	The Poster in History $55.00 - sold
The Printing Salesmen's Herald, Book 35, Special Issue on Paul Rand $35.00	The Rise and Fall of the Poster $50.00	The Savoy Cocktail Book $250.00 - sold
The Technique of the Color Wood-Cut $115.00 - sold	The Twentieth Century Book: Its Illustration and Design $115.00 - sold	The Verse by the Side of the Road $35.00 - sold
The World of Art Deco $25.00 - sold	Thoughts on Design $95.00 - sold	Thoughts on Design $300.00 - sold
Training in Commercial Art $48.00	Type Faces Volume 1 $24.00	Type for Books and Advertising $25.00
Typographic Facts $95.00 - sold	Typographic Variations $450.00	Typomundus 20 $65.00
Victorian Publishers' Book-Bindings in Paper $165.00	Vision + Value Series $225.00 - sold	Vision + Value Series $250.00 - sold
Vision in Motion $95.00 - sold	Vision in Motion $150.00 - sold	WAD: the Work of W. A. Dwiggins Shown by the American Institute of Graphic Arts at the Gallery of the Architectural League $75.00 - sold
Westvaco Inspirations for Printers, No. 33 $48.00 - sold	World Geo-graphic Atlas: A Composite if Man's Environment $350.00 - sold	World Geographic Atlas: A Composite if Man's Environment $350.00 - sold
World Geographic Atlas: A Composite if Man's Environment $350.00 - sold	World Geographic Atlas: A Composite if Man's Environment $350.00 - sold	World Geographic Atlas: A Composite if Man's Environment $300.00 - sold
World Geographic Atlas: A Composite if Man's Environment $400.00 - sold	World Geographic Atlas: A Composite if Man's Environment $350.00 - sold	World Geographic Atlas: A Composite if Man's Environment $300.00 - sold
Zaner's Gems of Flourishing $95.00 - sold

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