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The Cat's Meow. Bauer Type Foundry 1961 Type Specimen, Günther Stiller Woodcuts
The Cat's Meow. Bauer Type Foundry 1961 Type Specimen, Günther Stiller Woodcuts
The Cat's Meow. Bauer Type Foundry 1961 Type Specimen, Günther Stiller Woodcuts
The Cat's Meow. Bauer Type Foundry 1961 Type Specimen, Günther Stiller Woodcuts
The Cat's Meow. Bauer Type Foundry 1961 Type Specimen, Günther Stiller Woodcuts
The Cat's Meow. Bauer Type Foundry 1961 Type Specimen, Günther Stiller Woodcuts
The Cat's Meow. Bauer Type Foundry 1961 Type Specimen, Günther Stiller Woodcuts
The Cat's Meow. Bauer Type Foundry 1961 Type Specimen, Günther Stiller Woodcuts
The Cat's Meow. Bauer Type Foundry 1961 Type Specimen, Günther Stiller Woodcuts

The Cat's Meow. Bauer Type Foundry 1961 Type Specimen, Günther Stiller Woodcuts

$ 50.16

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Illustrator: Günther Stiller
  • Condition: Book Condition: New. Mint condition. Envelope Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+). Has sun fading at the edge of one side and a bit of wear to the top edge.
  • Year Printed: 1961
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Publisher: Bauer Type Foundry
  • Modified Item: No
  • Topic: Type specimens
  • Language: Multilingual
  • Special Attributes: 1st Edition
  • Measurements: 8 3/8 x 8 1/4 x 1/8 inches
  • Weight: Weight: 4.5 oz
  • Designer: Walter Plata
  • Original/Facsimile: Original
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany
  • Binding: Softcover, Wraps
  • Subject: Typecases

    Description

    The Cat's Meow.  Bauer Type Foundry type specimen “For the Friends of Bauer Alphabets, NY”, 1961, designed by Walter Plata. First Edition. Softcover. Unpaginated. 18 pp. Includes original black card envelope. Fourteen woodcuts by Günther Stiller of Weisbaden, Germany, are used to illustrate five literary pieces that are printed using different type specimens. The woodcuts are on the cover, the last page, and accompany each of the 5 different pieces about cats by major authors.
    The pieces are in their original language and English. The literary pieces are Black Cat by Rainer Maria Rilke, She-Cat by Pierre-Jean de Béranger, Mice Cat and Bell by Hans Sach and Sir Roger L’Estrange, Concerning Love by Josephine Preston Peabody, and the text of Adlai Stevenson’s veto of the “Cat Bill”. Quite a charming and beautifully printed publication.
    Book Condition: New. Mint condition.
    Envelope Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+). Has sun fading at the edge of one side and a bit of wear to the top edge.
    Measurements: 8 3/8 x 8 1/4 x 1/8 inches.
    Weight: 4.5 oz
    Please examine the photos closely & purchase based on your own judgement as to condition & value.
    This item is inventory #8413.
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