About U.S. — Experimental Typography ... Come Home to Jazz, No. 1 [Herb Lubalin]

About U.S. — Experimental Typography by American Designers: Come Home to Jazz, No. 1, 1960. The Composing Room: Dr. Robert Leslie, Hortense Mendel and Aaron Burns, New York, NY. 6.75 x 9.5, pp. 16. Text or “librettos for exercises in typography” are written by Percy Seitlin. Photographs by Carl Fischer. Excellent graphic design by Herb Lubalin.

Come Home to Jazz designed by Herb Lubalin is number one in a series of four, sixteen-page inserts reprinted from Der Druckspiegel, the graphic arts magazine published in Stuttgart, Germany. Conceived, edited and typeset in New York City and produced under the sponsorship of The Composing Room, Inc. Other volumes in this series are designed by: Gene Federico, Brownjohn, Chermayeff and Geismar and Lester Beall.

From the back cover: “In presenting experimental American typography to the European graphic arts community through the pages of Der Druckspiegel, we wanted to doubly utilize the opportunity offered by such a cultural exchange by 1) showing the work of American designers and 2) providing our European colleagues with something characteristically American to read about American.”

A very good plus stapled booklet with only light wear to the letterpress printed wrappers and some foxing on the first and last pages.