Den Nya Stilens Genombrott (The Advent of a New Style)
Stockholm: Skolan för Bokhantverk, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. 42/1400. Quarto. 71 (1)pp. Bound in tan half-buckram over marbled boards with gilt lettering on red leather label of spine, retaining original wraps with modern typeset and silver-green design on cover. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece portrait photograph, with tissue guard. A collection of statements about the new style and its introduction in Swedish typography. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and typeset samples, four pages of impressive modern Swedish typeset samples in color, four color pages with figurative design and one color lithograph of a watercolor by Maj Lindman. Text in Swedish. Binding with light wear along edges and some sunning of spine. Ex Libris of Kristen Rasmussen on inside front cover. Binding in overall good, interior in very good condition. g to vg. Item #47770
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