[Rarebooks] FS: Both volumes inscribed by Hermann Zapf

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS) Zapf, Hermann. ABOUT ALPHABETS. SOME MARGINAL NOTES ON TYPE DESIGN. New York: The Typophiles. 1960. 12mo. 117,(1)pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and 9 tipped-in facsimiles (5, are double page), plus 23 pages of alphabets in various languages, and 1 page of type ornament. Edition limited to 700 copies (printed in English), signed on the colophon by Hermann Zapf. In addition, Zapf has inscribed a preliminary blank, "For Andy Horn with cordial regards and affection, Hermann Z., 1965." OFFERED WITH: [Standard, Paul, compiler]. HERMANN ZAPF CALLIGRAPHER, TYPE-DESIGNER AND TYPOGRAPHER. An Exhibition Arranged and Circulated by The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Art Museum 1960-1961. Cincinnati: Contemporary Arts Center... 1960. Printed at the Stempel foundry in Frankfurt am Main. Unpaginated. A catalog of 170 calligraphic and typographic typefaces, 20 of which are reproduced with facsimile examples. Inscribed on the title page, "for Andy Horn from Hermann Z." Both volumes are uniformly bound in blue silk cloth with brown morocco spine labels. Fine.    $200.00 (trade discount allowed)
In 1965 Andrew Horn was the Associate Dean of the UCLA Library School Program, under Larry Powell. Upon Powell's retirement Horn became the second Dean of the school. He ran the "printing chapel" teaching letterpress printing.  Zapf was arguably the greatest 20th century type designer-calligrapher in the world.

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