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1973 Herbert Bayer intro YUSAKU KAMEKURA Japanese Graphic Design 188-pg HC-DJ

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c. 1982 Seymour Chwast PUSHPIN LUBALIN PECKOLICK Graphic Design Promo 48-pg Book

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1959 Yusaka Kamekura PAUL RAND 1946 – 1958 Japanese + English Graphic Design BK

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1978 Wolfgang Schmittel PROCESS VISUAL Swiss Corporate Identity Design ABC Verla

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1966 Buckminster Fuller MODERN HOUSES & CONVERSIONS Alison & Peter Smithson 256p

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1950 Alexey Brodovitch PORTFOLIO 1: GRAPHIC ARTS JOURNL Paul Rand Saul Steinberg

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1948 György Kepes LANGUAGE OF VISION New BAUHAUS Institute of DESIGN classic Bk

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1966 Paul Rand AIGA 50 YRS Saul BASS Ladislav SUTNAR Irving HARPER Elaine LUSTIG

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1960 Erik Nitsche GENERAL DYNAMICS AMERICA 426-pg Information Graphic Design BK

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1986 Seymour Chwast EDITORIAL IMAGE Magazine Illustration Neenah Paper Promotion

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1948 Egbert Jacobson BASIC COLOR The OSTWALD THEORY Morton GOLDSHOLL Book Design

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1968 Esther McCoy CRAIG ELLWOOD ARCHITECTURE California Modern Design 1st editio

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1970 Herb Lubalin SOMEWHER IT SAYS. . . PEACE ON EARTH Typography Holiday Poster

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1989 Ruedi Rüegg BASIC TYPOGRAPHY: LETTER DESIGN Wolfgang WEINGART Paul RAND Bk

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1968-71 Herb Lubalin + Ralph Ginzberg AVANT GARDE magazine 14-Issue Complete Set

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1981 Graphis ARCHIGRAPHIA Signage Design Otl AICHER Saul BASS Vignelli FOLLIS BK

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1995 Josef Albers GLASS, COLOR & LIGHT Guggenheim BAUHAUS Black Mountain College

$35.00

1984 Walter Diethelm SIGNET SYMBOL Swiss TRADEMARK Graphic Design ABC Verlag HcD

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1962 John Lewis PRINTED EPHEMERA Type + Letterforms English & American Printing

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2000 Per Mollerup TRADEMARK DESIGN HISTORY Paul RAND Saul BASS Armin HOFMANN Bk

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1940 A-D magazine George Switzer INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER Lucille Corcos WPA Artist

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1996 American Studio Jewelry 1940-60 MESSENGERS OF MODERNISM De Patta BERTOIA bk

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1965 Armin Hofmann GRAPHIC DESIGN MANUAL: PRINCIPLES + PRACTICE George Nelson 1s

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1961 Erik Nitsche Dynamic America INDUSTRIAL DESIGN Charles EAMES Mathematica

$75.00

1980 Graphis EPHEMERA Fornasetti BROWNJOHN Stig LINDBERG Saul BASS Herb Lubalin

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1963 Knoll DECORATION huge 325-pp Compendium NEUTRA Girard JUHL Saarinen VIGANO

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1974 Herbert Spencer NEW ALPHABETS A - Z Colin FORBES Alan FLETCHER Type Design

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1959 MoMA Bulletin THE PACKAGE Dieter RAMS Karl GERSTNER Aluminum FOIL Cat Cover

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1961 Georg Jensen JEWELRY Danish Crafts Design: Dansk Kunsthåndværk Kay BOJESEN

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1973 Y. Kuwayama TRADEMARKS + SYMBOLS 2-Vol set Anthologies 378 pgs 3,077 images

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1979 Jean-Paul Favre COLOR + COMMUNICATION Swiss ABC Verlag GRAPHIC DESIGN BK

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1959 George Nelson MODERN HOUSES Eichler NEUTRA Noyes BREUER Franzen MATSUMOTO

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1939 Lucien Bernhard PM Photo-Magnetic Lettering Service Art Deco WPA/FAP Design

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1953 Domus Series CERAMICS Milan TRIENNAL Friberg GAMBONE Melotti SALTO Stolhane

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1935 Georges Schreiber PM Graphic Arts Margaret Bourke-White Industrial Photos

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2003 Marilyn F. Friedman GOOD DESIGN Frankl RUHLMANN Gio PONTI Kem WEBER HcDj BK

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2006 Lionel Freedman LOUIS I. KAHN Architect YALE University Art Gallery POSTER

$75.00

1936 George Salter PM Graphic Arts Digest Ottmar Mergenthaler: LINOTYPE 50 Years

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1961 Swiss Graphic Design PUBLICITE Ann Neuburg DIETHELM Gerstner LOHSE Odermatt

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1975 Joe Deal AMERICAN MOVIE STILLS AS PHOTOGRAPHY Eastman House Exhibit Poster

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1957 Giulio Carlo Argan WALTER GROPIUS & THE BAUHAUS Italian Modern Design Book

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1983 Milton Glaser SIGNED copy: GRAPHIC DESIGN Modern Poster + Illustration Book

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1936 WPA AMERICAN BLOCK PRINT CALENDAR 1937 Artzybasheff Esherick Gropper Kent

$999.99

1950 Thomas Eckersley MODERN PUBLICITY Annual Paul RAND A M Cassandre Olle Eksel

$24.99

1995 Inscribed KELD HELMER-PETERSEN Modern Danish Photography Exhibition Poster

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1955 Piero Fornasetti Printed Plates GRAPHIS 57 Hiroshi Ohchi EMcKnight Kauffer

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1948 Arts et Métiers Graphiques LETTRES French Art Deco Letterpress TYPOGRAPHY

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1935 Aaron Douglas Harlem Renaissance Artist Cover + profile: PM mag WPA murals

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