[Rarebooks] FS: David Kindersley, designer, typographer

[Nina W. Matheson]

For your consideration :

Kindersley, David.  Variations on the theme of twenty-six 
letters.  [Wellingborough, Skelton's Press, 1969]. Original quarter leather 
and brown paper boards. Lower corners lightly bumped, otherwise fine. Of 
500 copies, one of 50 specially bound, numbered, and signed. Printed on 
papers of various colors.  $200.00

Kindersley, David.   Mr. Eric Gill, recollections.  New York] The 
Typophiles, 1967. Original yellow cloth. Fine. One of 400 copies for the 
Typophiles.Chapbook 44. 24 pp. Illustrated. Designed by Ward Ritchie.  $40.00

Kindersley, David.   Graphic variations.  [Cambridge, England, David 
Kindersley & Lida Lopes Cardozo, c1979]. Yellow dust jacket attached to 
plain wrappers. Lightly bumped at the head and foot of the backstrip and 
corners, otherwise near fine. 4-p. introduction by Kindersley followed by 
alphabets and sayings on colored papers.  $40.00

Morison, Stanley.   Tact in typographical design: a type 
specimen.  [Cambridge, Rampant Lions Press, 1962]. Original green printed 
wrappers. Fine. The first full showing of "Monotype" Octavian, Series 
603-14, a new roman and italic designed by Will Carter and David 
Kindersley. The text is an extract from the Introduction to The typographic 
book to be published in 1962. This is one of 100 advance copies printed by 
Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press on the occasion of the 165th meeting 
of the Double Crown Club at Magdalene College, 22nd June 1962. Fitzwilliam 
Museum / The Rampant Lions Press 21 (noting the advance copies).  $75.00

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