R. Randolph Karch, How to Recognize Type Faces, 1952, Very Good hardcover w/dust jacket

Karch, R. Randolph. Bloomington: McKnight & McKnight Publishing Company, 1952. 

English, Very Good, HC, 8vo, 8 3/4" x 5 3/4", 265 pp. 

Hardcover in light blue cloth with stamped black lettering to front panel and spine. Minor wear with small bump to bottom tips, light soiling to back panel, some sunning. Affixed ex libris bookplate to front endpaper belonging to Richard E. Huss who wrote numerous books on mechanical type. Some additions to the typefaces are tipped-in. Very Good blue pictorial dust jacket, some foxing and soiling, minor wear, and sunning, now in Mylar. This wonderfully produced two-part book details everything one needs to know about typefaces and how to recognize them, and then provides 1,475 different typefaces for reference. Typefaces are arranged in order of their likeness.