WER IST VICTOR HAMMER? [WHO IS VICTOR HAMMER?]
by [Hammer, Victor]: Koch, Rudolf
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[Lexington, KY: King Library Press, 1996].. Large quarto (31 x 25 cm). Open strap-sewn stiff paper wrapper, Japanese paper endsheets, untrimmed. Printed in red and black. Fine. One of appRoximately fifty copies handprinted as a keepsake for a workshop in printing and graphic design taught by Dr. Paul Holbrook on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the King Library Press by Carolyn Reading Hammer. The original 1930 German text is printed in red with the English translation printed interlineally in black, the former handset by Suann Childer in Koch's Jessen Schrift font and the latter in Hammer's Samson Uncial. Laid in are three variant printings of a larger rendering of the silhouette portrait of Koch from his "Vie Schriftgiesserei im Schattenbild."
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- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
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- Title
- WER IST VICTOR HAMMER? [WHO IS VICTOR HAMMER?]
- Author
- [Hammer, Victor]: Koch, Rudolf
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Publisher
- King Library Press
- Place of Publication
- [Lexington, KY
- Date Published
- 1996].
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We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization.
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