Through the selection of eleven master designers, Jerry Kelly illustrates a wide range of styles: from classically inspired design and historical revival, to novel and modern layouts. Throughout the twentieth century, modern design theories in combination with newer printing technologies offered book designers far more options than were previously available to them. Utilizing these resources, some skillful artisans produced stunning designs in period style, arranging modern re-cuttings of early type designs with historical decoration that resulted in the creation of truly beautiful books; while others preferred a more contemporary aesthetic, building upon earlier principles in a fresh, novel manner. Through the selection of eleven master designers, Jerry Kelly illustrates a wide range of styles: from classically inspired design and historical revival, tonovel and modern layouts. He describes the care with which each designer combined typographic elements in their own unique way. The selection of these designers, ranging from Updike to Zapf, is only a small sampling of the practitioners that the twentieth century produced, but they are indicative of the wide range of book design styles achieved during this exceptionally dynamic century. JERRY KELLY is an award winning designer, calligrapher and printer working in New York City.

IN THE GRIP OF THE IRON CURTAIN takes place in ravaged Berlin -- a decade after the conclusion of World War II. The island city of three million citizens is isolated deep into Communist-dominated occupied territory. More than thirty spy organizations from countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain operate in the former capitol city, while the majority of Berliners still live and work in the ruins of bombed and artillery-shelled buildings. Steve McKinnon, trained by the U. S. Army Counterintelligence Corp. for a covert assignment, arrives in the former German capitol at the height of the Cold War, to serve as an undercover CIC agent, while working in the four-man Berlin Command Public Information Office. Upon arriving in Germany, he is instructed to be the sole contact with another CIC undercover agent, recently planted in Soviet-controlled East Berlin. McKinnon becomes a central figure in a dangerous, deceptive action.

The story of a foundational aspect of publishing, from Gutenberg's press to today's digital type. It's common knowledge that the name Gutenberg and the words "moveable type" go together. What's far less known is that Garamond, Baskerville, and Bodoni aren't just font options in a word processing dropdown menu, but the names of some of the real punchcutters and type designers who raised the essential work of typography to the level of art. One Hundred Books Famous in Typography, the latest entry in the Grolier Club's prestigious Grolier Hundred series, is the story of art and technology working in harmony with each other, all the way from Johannes Gutenberg's ingenious development of a system for reproducing texts through the introduction of newer technologies like hot-metal line casting, phototype, and digital type. Featuring scholarly yet accessible context for the works discussed and their typographical significance, and illustrated with more than two hundred images, Jerry Kelly's book is the most comprehensive exploration yet of this essential facet of bookmaking and publishing.

A continuation of the Grolier 75 volume of short biographies published by the Club in 1959 to celebrate its 75th birthday, this indispensable new collection of over 120 profiles by members illustrates the contributions of Grolier Club members in the fields of collecting, rare book librarianship, book design, and the antiquarian book trade. Designed by Jerry Kelly to complement Joseph Blumenthal's design for Grolier 75, and published in an edition totaling 750 copies. This is one of 250 copies in maroon cloth backed in beige linen, title in gilt on black leather spine label, in slipcase with maroon cloth top and bottom, and gray paper sides with an overall pattern of the Club device in red.