Typographics 2025 will feature the ninth edition of the Typographics Book Fair, June 27–29, with items for sale from some of our favorite booksellers.
There will be a wide diversity of material available relating to typography, lettering, design, etc, with everything from rare antiquarian type specimens to contemporary titles on modern graphic design.
| Access: | Free and open to the public (no registration needed) |
| Dates: | Fri–Sun, June 27–29, 2025 |
| Hours: | 10am–5pm |
| Location: | 41 Cooper Square, between E 6th St & E 7th St (just across the street from the Great Hall where the main Typographics conference will be taking place) |
Dave Bergman is a general antiquarian bookseller with specialties in typography, graphic design and decorative arts. He will be bringing a large selection of mid-nineteenth to late twentieth century material in these fields. Unfortunately, he is unable to process electronic payment and it is cash or check only.
Draw Down Books specializes in publishing and selling books about typography, design, and visual culture. Our titles delve into the intricacies of typography, covering topics ranging from historical typographic practices to current design trends, and our catalog includes monographs, competition catalogs, guidebooks, exhibition catalogs, type specimens and posters. Founded by designers Christopher Sleboda and Kathleen Sleboda, both design educators and typographic enthusiasts, Draw Down Books offers printed matter for aspiring, discerning, and seasoned designers.
After three decades at the helm of P22 Type Foundry, Richard Kegler founded Dry Inc. in 2020 as a design and letterpress printing studio. Kegler is now parting with much of his extensive collection of typographic books. These materials were carefully amassed through decades of research for digital type revivals and typographic obsession. The Typographics Book Fair is one of the rare opportunities to explore and acquire these hard-to-find reference books, type specimens, and other alphabet-related ephemera. Featured titles include fine press publications by P22 and letterpress prints from Dry Inc.
Inventory Press publishes books on topics in art, architecture, design, and music, with an emphasis on subcultures, minor histories, and the sociopolitical aspects of material culture.
Katherine Small Gallery presents exhibits meant to encourage affordable collecting as a way for graphic designers and students of design to learn about the history of their field. New and vintage typography and graphic design books from the Europe and Japan (and sometimes the US) are also offered.
ksmallgallery.com
@ksmallgallery@typo.social
@ksmallgallery@pixelfed.social
@ksmallgallery
Letterform Archive is back for their ninth Typographics Book Fair! As always, there will be original specimens of metal type and other rare typographic books deaccessioned from one of the best collections in the world. You can also snag one of the Archive’s own publications, including reprints of specimens by Bernhard, Excoffon, Novarese, and Emigre.
letterformarchive.org
@letterformarchive@typo.social
@letterformarchive
The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design & Typography, one of the co-organizers of the Typographics festival, is a study archive but also has been publishing various things since it opened in 1985. They will be selling some of these items as well as some duplicates of type specimens and other books from their collection of 20th-century graphic design.
lubalincenter.cooper.edu
@lubalincenter@typo.social
@lubalincenter
Creatively applying the cultural politics of content, form, and style whilst critically dissecting these to spark literacy, Set Margins’ publications enforces the voices of marginalized cultural agendas. As a support structure, a platform for production, a network and publisher, Set Margins frames current impulses with particular focus for communication, forms of cooperation, and involved politics. Set Margins’ delivers critical experiences, discourse, and dialogue, steps up for liberties and builds critical community.
setmargins.press
@Set_Margins_publications@mastodon.social
@Set_Margins@pixelfed.social
@freeklomme.bsky.social
@setmargins
Weinberg Modern Books specializes in modernist visual culture and intellectual history. We feature rare and important items in the fields of design, graphic design, art, and architecture. Graphic design and typography give visual shape and structure to the books, catalogs, posters, and ephemera that inform our experience of modern culture. Good graphic design becomes itself an inextricable part of the discourse, able to excite and inspire us. Our collection of modern graphic design ranges from foundational texts to type sample books, and includes part of a lifetime collection amassed by a long-time art director at CBS Television Network, himself a 1930s student at the Cooper Union, and his father, a typographer, calligrapher, advertising illustrator, and artist.