Pioneers of Modern Typography

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Hardcover copy of “Pioneers of Modern Typography” with 160 pages and two book jackets. There is a clear plastic book jacket cover over the patterned book jacket. The patterned book jacket is blue with a design on the front of an overlapping white circle, yellow triangle, and red square. There is a tear at the top and some loss to the edges. At the top left of the front cover is black printed text [Herbert Spencer] next to white text which reads [Pioneers of / modern / typography]. The author and title are on the spine in white with the publisher [Hastings House] in black. On the back cover of the book jacket there is a list of names printed in black in one central column starting with [Apollinaire]. The jacket front flap describes the book and the author while the back flap has “Other books of related interest”.

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