TYPOGRAPHY & TYPE SPECIMENS, 1927-1952, Graphic Design, 2 Vols.

Frederick M. Farrar’s Type Book, New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1927, first edition, publisher’s cloth-backed boards, with pictorial bookplate of George Herbert Utter. Accompanied by R. Randolph Karch’s How to Recognize Type Faces, Bloomington, McKnight & McKnight, 1952, octavo, publisher’s cloth with dust jacket. 2 vols.

Sound used copy; boards rubbed with toned covers; Farrar with chipped spine ends and bumped corners; Karch dust jacket edge-chipped, creased, and surface soiled, with top edge wear; interiors with minor handling.