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Books for Sale • Please see attached lists of Printing books for sale. This is a portion of the books that we have for sale. • We are working on a complete price list for all as soon as time permits. • In the interim if you see a book you are interested in, we will send a picture and quote a price. 100 years of Canadian Drawing 1939 Printing Trades Blue Book 1959 Printing Trades Blue Book 1981 Printing Trades Blue Book 2000 Designs Forms & Ornaments 1914 128 pages A Book of Printing Typefaces 1987-88-97-98 A Catalogue of 19th Century Printing Presses Sterne A Catfish in the Bodoni A course in Bookbinding 1927 451 pages A Dictionary of Printer's Terms A Dictionary of Toronto Printers 1982 A History of Journalism in Canada A History of Plant Jobber Ralph Green A Manual of Bookbinding Nicholson A Manual of Decorated Typefaces 1965 A Manual of Script Typefaces R. S. Hutchings 1965 A Manual of Style 10th & 12th Editions University of Chicago A Manual of Style 1937 also 1969 12th edition A Manual of Styles 12th Edition Revised 546 pages hardbound A Monotype Composing Machine Described A Practical Printing & Binding Reprint 1972 Odhm Books A Short History of the Printed Word soft cover 244 pages Warren Chappell A Treasury of Bookplates 1977 Dover Books 151 pages A Treasury of Bookplates from the Renaisance to the Present A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles Vol. 2 1901-1938 A.N.P.A. Mechanical Conference 1954 A.T.A. Type Comparison Book ABC of Letter Eric Lindegrew 1963-66-67-68-69-71-72-76-77-79-80 Acimga Italy Catalogue Adana Printing Equipment Catalogue 1952 Adler Traldi Linotype Matrices #40 25 pages Adler Traldi Linotype Matrices 1967 #13 119 pages Advertising Comp. Editing Psychology Type American Industrial Machinery Service 1870 C. H. Wendel American Iron Hand Presses American Line Type ATF 292 pages American Line Type Book ATF 1906 920 pages American Metal Typefaces of the 20th Century (McGrew) American Pressman 1965 American Printer Updike American Printing Equipment Catalogue American Specimen Book of Typestyles 1923 Books For Sale - Page 1 of 18 - (416) 751-5944 - [email protected] American Specimen Book of Typestyles Vol. 1 1912 868 pages hard bound American Type Designers by D. K. Thomagan (soft bound 86 pages) American Type Founders 1906 Red hard bound 1181 pages American Type Foundry Machinery Catalogue American Typefaces of the 20th Century Preliminary Edition American Types Handy Index ATF American Wood Type (1828-1900) Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Catalogue #1953-54-55-56-57-58-59-60-61-62 Annuals of Printing Edmund Poole 315 pages hard cover 1966 APL Parts Book Arithmetic for Printers Art of Wood Type Artists Manual for Silk Screen Printmaking Shokler ATF 1900 1108 pages hard bound ATF 1923 Specimen Book ATF 1934 207 pages ATF Specimen Binder A-K + 2 supplements and Univers ATF Supplies ATF Tpestyles Supplement 215 pages hard bound 1917 Automatice Matrix Cleaner Italy B B & S #25 Hard cover 708 pages B B & S #25a Hard cover 528 pages Type That Talks B B & S #9 Hard cover 1020 pages B B & S Specimen book 172 pages B B & S Superior Copper Mixed Type 879 pages Barnhart-Brothers & Spindler type Basic Bookbinding A. Lewis Basic Bookbinding A. Lewis Dover Bauer 3 Specimen Books Bauer Alphabets Syd Stone Bauer Alphabets for Guidance 2 copies 48 & 68 pages Bauer Types Bedford Alphabets 1-2-3-4 Belchers Farmers Almanac 1860 Benjamin Franklin Printer 1917 244 pages (no back cover) Book Composition Book Making Marshal Lee 1966 399 pages Book of American Types ATF 207 pages 1934 Book of American Types ATF 191 pages 1941 Book of Specimens Madkellar, Smith & Jordan Facimile Bookbinders Requisites 1795-1957 Bookbindery & the Care of Books (5th edition 1953) Bookbindery (Handicraft Guide No. 3) Bookbinding for Amatuers (1903) Bookbinding in America 1941 Bookbinding in America 3 essays Bookmaking-The Illustrated Guide to Design & Production Books For Sale - Page 2 of 18 - (416) 751-5944 - [email protected] Books & Printing A Treasury for Typophiles Paul Bennett Books & Printing (Paul A. Bennett 1951 417 pages Books for Our Times (Oxford Press 1941) Books from Writer to Reader Books of Our Time Boston Type Foundry Supplementary Specimen Sheet Peat Reprint 1856 British Bookmaker Vo. 1 & 2 1888 British Bookmaker Vol. 3 & 4 1889 British Bookmaker Vol. 5 & 6 1892 British Bookmaker Vol. 7 1894 British Printer Vol. 4 1891 Brown Bros Brown Linotype Jim Daggs Bruces N. Y. Typefoundry price List 1856 Peat Reprint Soft Bound 18 pages Bryantype Budget Techniques Tools of the Trade C. P. Style Book Canada's Printing Pioners Canadian American Linotype Parts Book 1906 Canadian Book of Printing Canadian Book of Printing 130 pages 1940 Canadian Book of Printing (How Printing came to Canada) Canadian Linotype Supplies Catalogue 69/70 Canadian Printing Pioneer Vol. 31 No. 2 1966 Care of the Linotype and Intertype Casting & Driving Mechanism Model 5-29-36 Casting Good Type Catalogue of 19th Century Bindery Equipment Catalogue of 19th Century Printing Presses Sterne Catalogue of Cast Brass Type Celtic Designs and Motifs Courtney Davis (Dover) 44 pages 1991 Central Type & Supply Catalogue Centuries of Fine Printing Stanley Morrison 1957 Chasing Monotypes Hill & Dale Chronicles of Genius & Folly 1979 Cincinnati Type Foundry Selected Specimens from 1857 Peat Reprint 72 pages Comet Parts Catalogues 54 & 59 Comp & Slug Casting Machine USSR Md #7 Continental Type Founders 5th Edition 157 pages Cornerstone 1957 Corona Creative Bookbinding Pauline Johnson Daniel Berkley Updike & the Merry Mount Press 1947 hardbound Dashes Braces & Other Ornaments Linotype David Gates Type 1973 Dead Horse by Donn Purdy Design of Printers ITU Books For Sale - Page 3 of 18 - (416) 751-5944 - [email protected] Design with Type Dair Design with Type Planning ATF Designing with Type 175 pages hard bound 1971 James Craig Display & Linotype Faces McCorquodale & Blades Display Composition Display Composition ITU Dr. Churchs Hoax Huss E. B. Eddy Handbook of Printing Production Early Printers & Printing in Canada Gundy 1964 Eastern Newspaper Supply 1957, #20 Electrically controlled Hydraquadder Elektron Electrical System Service #21 Elektron Parts Catalogue #60 Elements of Composition Encyclopedia of Phototype Styles (Castcraft) Encyclopedia of Type Faces 1990 416 pages reprint 4th editon Encyclopedia of Typefaces Blandford Encyclopedia of Typefaces 55th anniversary Edition 2008 Engineering Bulletins Intertype Engraving Metals 1908 Everyday Lettering & rinting Extra Muros-Intro Nuros Collection Rare Books at University of Toronto Farewell Etaoinshrdlu Field Guide to North American Hand Presses Robert Oldham 2006 Fifty Printers Marks Fine Print of Type (1989 147 pages) Five Decades of Burin 80 pages hard cover 2004 Five Hundred years of Printing 1966 paperback Fleuron Anthology 1973 U of T Press Flexographic Printing 1958 Font Numbers and Font Lines Intertype Foster Manufacturing Fototype Specimmen Book Four Centuries of Printing Stanley Morrison 1957 Revised hard bound 336 pages Frederick Nelson Philips 1929 540 pages hard bound Fundamentals of Layout (Dover books) for Newspapers 124 pages 1965 Fundamentals of Type 112 pages 1936 Gane #982 Gane 1965 General Bookbinding Chris Groweman revised 1946 General Graphics 2000 General Printing Cleeton, Pitkin Cornwell General Printing Catalogue 1970-71 Globe & Mail Style Book Glossary of Typographic Terms (ITCA) Government and Printing Office Style Manual 1967 Graphic Arts Carlson 1965 174 pages Carlson/Bennett Books For Sale - Page 4 of 18 - (416) 751-5944 - [email protected] Graphic Arts Equipment & Supplies Turner of Detroit Graphic Arts Exposition Program 1927 Graphic Arts Monthly 1981 Buyers Guide Graphic Arts Monthly 1982 Buyers Guide Graphic Arts Monthly 1983 Buyers Guide Graphic Communications-Letterpress, lockup & Presswork Graphic Products Corporation Griffin Brothers Haddons Type & Borders Canada Edition #1 1903 Hamilton #21 Hamilton #25 Hamilton A History in Headlines Hamilton Cabinets #23 Hamilton catalogue #2 Hamilton Printing Equipment #22 Hamilton Printing Equipment #27 Hamilton Printing Equipment #28 Hamilton Printing Plant Equipment Catalogue #16 Hamilton Printing Plant equipment Catalogue #20 Hamilton Specimens of Wood Typefaces Shooting Star Press Hamilton Steel Equipment for Newspapers & Publishers Original Catalogue #2 Hamilton Wood Type Catalogue #14 1899-2000 Hamiltons Specimens of Wood Type Faces 17th edition Handbook of Early Advertising Art 1953 Handbook of Print Media 1205 pages (Hikipphan-Heidelberg) hardbound Handbook of Typefaces & Lettering 4th edition 1982 Handy Catalogue of Printing Types Handy Type Index Hatch Show Print hard bound 190 pages Hatch Showprint 2001 hard cover 190 pages Heidelberg 10x15 Parts Book Heidelberg 13x18 Parts Book Heidelberg Cylinder Parts Book Heidelberg News Issue 2, Vol. 24 1966 Heidelberg News issue 4 , Vol 23 1965 Heidelberg Promotion Book Hints for the Pressman (Original Heidelberg) Hints for the Pressman 119 pages Platen Hints for the Pressman 131 pages Cylinder Hints for the Pressman 93 pages Historic Sites in Ontario History of the Linotype Company History of the Typographical Union 1913 History of Typography Holmes Vertical Press 1958 How to Buy Printing Profitably 1927 134 pages How to Clothbind a Paperback Book (Francis Kafka) Books For Sale - Page 5 of 18 - (416) 751-5944 - [email protected] How to do Paste Ups & Mechanicals How to Plan Printing Scott Paper 81 pages 1928 How to Recognize Typefaces (Karch 1959 second edition How to Recognize Typefaces (Karch) 1952 How to Select
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