(7) issues of Typographer’s Digest, 1959-1961. Edited by Alexander S. Lawson. Published quarterly by W. C. Stremic, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Each issue is 5.5. x 7.75 with 24 pages and stapled covers. Typographer’s Digest was published exclusively for the members of the International Typographic Composition Association, Inc.
Issues include: No. 2, 1959; No. 3, 1959; No. 4, 1960; No. 5, 1960; No. 7, 1961; No. 8, 1961; and No. 9, 1961. Excellent articles related to historical and contemporary typography and graphic design. With Acknowledgments and Production Notes as back matter. Heavily illustrated in black and white throughout.
Articles include ... A Show of Hands (Fists); Typography U.S.A. by George Krikorian; The Value of Space; The 50 Books: A Critique and Suggestion by George Salter; Decorated Types; Caslon Flowers by W. A. Dwiggins; A Contribution to Book Typography by Herbert Bayer; The Nature of Type by Oscar Ogg; The Annual Report; Broadsides ... Then and Now; Giambattista Bodoni; Which Way from Futura?; Naming Type Faces; Paragraphs on Type Design by Hermann Zapf; Creative Typography; A Revival: 19th Century American Type; Is Modern Typography Really Modern?; A Comeback for Shadow Types; Typographic Design Is Not Art! by William Golden; The Typographic Image by Herb Lubalin; The “Adverebus” by P. K. Thomajan; The Future of Typography is Here by Freeman Craw; Is Your Layout Way Out by Allen Hurlburt; Expressive Typography; and much more.
A very good collection with only light wear and some handling, mostly to the glossy covers. Early issues are hard to find and uncommon as a group; recommended!