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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. No Jacket. Illustrations In Blue (illustrator). 1st Edition. 100 Pp. Light Blue Cloth Stamped In Brown. First Edition Stated. Slight Usage, But Cloth Browning, Small "5/62" At Bottom F Front Pastedown. Now Quite Scarce, One Of A Limitation Of 1750 Copies Only (Stated In Colophon). A Play: "Suppose That All These Mechanical Slaves Serving Mankind Got Sick Of Their Jobs. Suppose That They Managed, By Means Of Some Unknown Vibration, To Get In Touch With One Another And Pool Their Grudges. They Must Have Grudges . Suppose That The Higher Orders Of The Machine Fraternity, Already Raised To Almost Human Levels In Point Of Automatic Functioning, Should Take The Next Step In Evolution And Emerge As Personalities, With Faculties Of Judgment, Selection, Purpose, Organization, Individual Action . What, Then, Would Be The Position Of Human Kind Upon Earth?" Next Year, In Ten Years, In Twenty Years, A Hundred Years? And What Government Agency, Exactly, Will Care? William Addison Dwiggins (1880 -1956), Was An American Type Designer, Calligrapher, And Book Designer. He Attained Prominence As An Illustrator And Commercial Artist, And He Brought To The Designing Of Type And Books Some Of The Boldness That He Displayed In His Advertising Work. His Work Can Be Described As Ornamented And Geometric, Similar To The Art Moderne And Art Deco Styles Of The Period, Using Oriental Influences And Breaking From The More Antiquarian Styles Of His Colleagues And Mentors Updike, Cleland And Goudy. Dwiggins' Interest In Lettering Led To The Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Sensing Dwiggins' Talent And Knowledge, Hiring Dwiggins In March 1929 As A Consultant To Create A Sans-Serif Typeface, Which Became Metro, In Response To Similar Type Being Sold From European Foundries Such As Erbar, Futura, And Gill Sans, Which Dwiggins Felt Failed In The Lower-Case. Dwiggins Went On To Have A Successful Working Relationship With Chauncey H. Griffith, Linotype's Director Of Typographic Development, And All His Typefaces Were Created For Them. His Most Widely Used Book Typefaces, Electra And Caledonia, Were Specifically Designed For Linotype Composition And Have A Clean Spareness.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Illustrations In Blue (illustrator). 1st Edition. 100 Pp. Light Blue Cloth Stamped In Brown. First Edition Stated. Slight Usage, But Cloth Browning. Dust Jacket With Stamped Price $2.00 Net (Not Present On Some Copies), Wear, Small Losses And Short Tears And Creases At Edges But No Loss Of Lettering Or Design. Quite Scarce, One Of A Limitation Of 1750 Copies Only (Stated In Colophon). A Play: "Suppose That All These Mechanical Slaves Serving Mankind Got Sick Of Their Jobs. Suppose That They Managed, By Means Of Some Unknown Vibration, To Get In Touch With One Another And Pool Their Grudges. They Must Have Grudges . Suppose That The Higher Orders Of Th Machine Fraternity, Already Raised To Almost Human Levels In Point Of Automatic Functioning, Should Take The Next Step In Evolution And Emerge As Personalities, With Faculties Of Judgment, Selection, Purpose, Organization, Individual Action . What, Then, Would Be The Position Of Human Kind Upon Earth?" Next Year, In Ten Years, In Twenty Years, A Hundred Years? And What Government Agency, Exactly, Will Care? William Addison Dwiggins (1880 -1956), Was An American Type Designer, Calligrapher, And Book Designer. He Attained Prominence As An Illustrator And Commercial Artist, And He Brought To The Designing Of Type And Books Some Of The Boldness That He Displayed In His Advertising Work. His Work Can Be Described As Ornamented And Geometric, Similar To The Art Moderne And Art Deco Styles Of The Period, Using Oriental Influences And Breaking From The More Antiquarian Styles Of His Colleagues And Mentors Updike, Cleland And Goudy. Dwiggins' Interest In Lettering Led To The Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Sensing Dwiggins' Talent And Knowledge, Hiring Dwiggins In March 1929 As A Consultant To Create A Sans-Serif Typeface, Which Became Metro, In Response To Similar Type Being Sold From European Foundries Such As Erbar, Futura, And Gill Sans, Which Dwiggins Felt Failed In The Lower-Case. Dwiggins Went On To Have A Successful Working Relationship With Chauncey H. Griffith, Linotype's Director Of Typographic Development, And All His Typefaces Were Created For Them. His Most Widely Used Book Typefaces, Electra And Caledonia, Were Specifically Designed For Linotype Composition And Have A Clean Spareness.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Illustrations In Blue (illustrator). 1st Edition. 100 Pp. Light Blue Cloth Stamped In Brown. First Edition Stated. Slight Usage, No Cloth Browning. Dust Jacket Unpriced (A $2.00 Net Price Was Stamped On Some Jackets), Slight Wear, Near Fine. Once Readily Available, Quite Scarce Now That Ai Intrudes Everywhere And Is Now Conceivably Able To Connect Everywhere, One Of A Limitation Of 1750 Copies Only (Stated In Colophon). A Play: "Suppose That All These Mechanical Slaves Serving Mankind Got Sick Of Their Jobs. Suppose That They Managed, By Means Of Some Unknown Vibration, To Get In Touch With One Another And Pool Their Grudges. They Must Have Grudges . Suppose That The Higher Orders Of Th Machine Fraternity, Already Raised To Almost Human Levels In Point Of Automatic Functioning, Should Take The Next Step In Evolution And Emerge As Personalities, With Faculties Of Judgment, Selection, Purpose, Organization, Individual Action . What, Then, Would Be The Position Of Human Kind Upon Earth?" Next Year, In Ten Years, In Twenty Years, A Hundred Years? And What Government Agency, Exactly, Will Care? William Addison Dwiggins (1880 -1956), Was An American Type Designer, Calligrapher, And Book Designer. He Attained Prominence As An Illustrator And Commercial Artist, And He Brought To The Designing Of Type And Books Some Of The Boldness That He Displayed In His Advertising Work. His Work Can Be Described As Ornamented And Geometric, Similar To The Art Moderne And Art Deco Styles Of The Period, Using Oriental Influences And Breaking From The More Antiquarian Styles Of His Colleagues And Mentors Updike, Cleland And Goudy. Dwiggins' Interest In Lettering Led To The Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Sensing Dwiggins' Talent And Knowledge, Hiring Dwiggins In March 1929 As A Consultant To Create A Sans-Serif Typeface, Which Became Metro, In Response To Similar Type Being Sold From European Foundries Such As Erbar, Futura, And Gill Sans, Which Dwiggins Felt Failed In The Lower-Case. Dwiggins Went On To Have A Successful Working Relationship With Chauncey H. Griffith, Linotype's Director Of Typographic Development, And All His Typefaces Were Created For Them. His Most Widely Used Book Typefaces, Electra And Caledonia, Were Specifically Designed For Linotype Composition And Have A Clean Spareness.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Ganes, Ann (cover); Johnston, Franz; Clymer, J.F.; Dinsmore, E.J.; Skuce, Lou; Jefferys, C.W.; Chambers, W.V.; Taylor, H. Weston; Skuce, Lou (illustrator). First Edition. 80 pages. Features: They All Quit Cold - photo illustrated article on the 1928 Canadian National Exhibition Swim, in which none of the 199 contestants finished, but Georges Michel was the last man to quit - and he attempted to claim the prize of $25k - article with photos of George Michel, Ethel Hertle, George Young and Ernst Vierkoetter; Canadian V.C.'s (winners of the Victoria Cross) - article with illustrations of Captain F.A.C. Scrimger and Lance-Corporal Fred Fisher; Naught Broken Save This Body (short story about air battle); The Gatineau (River's) Taming - great photo-illustrated article on how the Gatineau River was developed for hydro power generation - with photos of Olivier Lefebvre, Major Walter Blue, the great Baskatong Dam, and more; Coyote Joe (fiction); Grains of Destiny - the romantic story of how Canada's wheat wealth sprang from a stray kernel in a shipload - with photos of Dr. Charles E. Saunders and L.H. Newman; When I Acted with Terry - recollections by actor Arthur Stringer; The Lordly Vagabond - fiction concerning a trussed king, a rogue unmasked and Beauty riding to the aid of Valor; Canada's Concern in the Pacific - article in the future relationship of the British Empire and the United States as affected by their affairs in China and Japan - with photos of Port of Yokohama and photo of "The Empress of Canada" in Shanghai Harbor; Finn - short story of a shrewd Saint John skipper; The World's Toughest - photo-illustrated article on Al Young, who drove six-horse stage coaches in B.C.'s Cariboo in temperatures as low as -74 degrees; With a Nonino! - legal short story; Photo of Mackennzie King and Hon. P.C. Larking inspecting a figure for the Canadian War Memorial at the March Studios, Farnborough, England; The Victoria Order of Nurses - they nurse 3,000 patients every day - article with photos of Miss Elizabeth Smellie and Right Honorable George P. Graham; Color and More in the Bedroom - interior design article with photos. Ads: Nice one-page ad for the Essex Super Six car; The Marquise De Polignac is illustrated in a one-page photo ad for Pond's skin products; Nice one-page ad for Barrett Roofings shows roofer at work; One-page Northern Electric ad explains how they transmit power and sound; One-page Canada Dry ad shows family Christmas scene dated Dec. 25, 1928; One-page Canadian Marconi Company ad features their 6-tube battery operated receiver (radio), with cabinet by McLagan; One-page Arrow Shirt ad features pipe-smoking gent in suit; Splitdorf Radio ad; Nostalgic one-page contest announcement offers prize to the person who can create the largest list of words from the letters in the name of author L.A. Cunningham (whose photos appears in the ad); "Ceetee" underwear ad; Appleford-brand heavy waxed paper; Dodge New Senior Six car ad; Nice illustrated ad for Langmuir Luggage - with Yale pin-tumbler locks; Kotex; Stromberg-Carlson Radios; Tillson's Natural Bran; Squibb's Dental Cream; Royal Yeast Cakes; No-Mar furniture - manufactured by Malcolm & Hill, Limited, of Kitchener; One-page Ovaltine features lady on bed with nerves which need soothing; Moirs Chocolates; Weed tire chains by the Dominion Chain Company; Handsome one-page red and black ad for Rogers brushing lacquer; Seaman-Kent Hardwood Flooring; Westclox; Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup; The "Mona Lisa" doll by the Reliable Toy Company (with photo); Vintage one-page orange and black illustrated ad for "The Makers of Canada" book series is entitled "The Campbells Are Coming" and talks of the history of Scotchmen in settling Canada's west; Willard Batteries - one page in red and black; The United Bond Company of Toronto; Please note: back cover missing. Pages 17-18 missing - contained colour plates of war paintings. Pages 67-68 missing.(probably contained ads). A worthy vintage copy.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Sambrook, Russell: Cover Art; Grassick, C.A.; Shreve, Carl; Dinsmore, E.J.; Chambers, W.V.; Summers, Dudley Gloyne; Sellen, H.E.M.; McCrea, H.W. (illustrator). First Edition. 84 pages. Features: Nice mini-golf cover illustration; Heinz vinegar and olive oil colour ad inside front cover; Nice vintage full-page photo ad for Clark's Tomato Ketchup features grocer behind counter speaking with lady customer dressed in contemporary fashion; Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of the late J.Pierpont Morgan - discusses modern women - ad with photo of Miss Morgan as part of Pond's ad; Some Truths about Wheat - W.W. Swanson argues that there has been no "foolish overproduction of wheat"; Backstage at Ottawa; The Dark Road (fiction); Pigeons on Patrol - the story of the Royal Canadian Air Force pigeon service whose winged messengers have pulled many a pilot out of a tight hole; The Hyams Twins Case - Did the Hyams brothers kill Willie Wells in Toronto in 1893?; Barry's Clarissa (fiction); The Silver Scale (fiction); Patrick "Pat" Burns - One of the West's Dominant Business Figures; Bonds of Danger - the story of "Surge" the steelhead; Canadians in Hollywood - great article with five nice photos of stars Fifi Dorsay, Walter Huston, Fay Wray, Mary Pickford, Marie Dressler, and Norma Shearer (photo of Pauline Garon appears later); The Devil in the Jade - a strange tale of mysterious Burma; The Western Mennonites - a graphic description of life among a group of New Canadians now in the throes of the conflict between orthodoxy and modernism - with photos; Sir Oswald Mosley and his New Party cause stir in Britain; Nice full-page photo ad for Kraft cheese and Velveeta; Nice full-page ad for the Chrysler Eight De Luxe; Nice full-page illustrated ad for REO speed wagons and trucks; The Brome Lake Duck Farm of Knowlton, Quebec - article with photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Swift's bacon; Great colour full-page art deco ad for Calay soap; Full-page illustrated ad for Studebaker Trucks features a 2-ton model for $1125; Nice photo ad for Spud cigarettes features a pilot lighting up; Fashionable full-page ad for Penmans new silk hosiery; Excellent full-page colour ad for International Harvester commemorates the centennial of the McCormick reaper; Nice colour full-page ad for Keen's mustard; Woodward's "Gripe Water" ad; Excellent two-colour full-page ad for Dodge Trucks shows row of trucks backed up to loading gates; Nice full-page two-colour ad for the book Murder at Belly Butte; Humour; Nice full-page ad for the Graham Prosperity Six car; Lux soap ad features photos of Clara Bow, Nancy Carroll, June Collyer, Mary Brian, Lillian Roth, and William Powell; Hot weather supper dishes - recipes; Nuce full-page ad for the new Chevrolet Convertible Cabriolet; Outdoor furniture; Colour ad for Parker pens on back cover. Unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy of this excellent issue.