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Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space

John Savard

This typeface looked a lot like Century Expanded, but the capital J that goes below the line eliminates that.

The italic capital Q eliminates Baskerville or Bulmer. I'm pretty sure this isn't Imprint, because it doesn't look at all like Caslon. (Similarly, it isn't the Phemister Old Style.)

I think I should be able to recognize this typeface immediately, but I'm embarassed to admit that I can't.

Also, I see that it is not Number Twenty-One from Linotype; that doesn't have a descending J, and it has a different type of Q in the italic.

Font: 
Linotype Baskerville
Solved By: 
bowfinpw
Michael Yanega

Looking at the Baskerville types in Mac McGrew's book "American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century", this looks like the Linotype version of Baskerville. The italic 'k' is I think the key to separate it from the Monotype and ATF versions. It also has that unusually long J, and the italic Q seems to match.

- Mike Yanega

John Savard

Although I haven't been able to fully verify this, as the page with Baskerville on it isn't in the preview of "The Type Specimen Book" by V&M Typographical on Google Books, and Baskerville isn't in "The Linotype Manual", looking at Intertype Baskerville on this page leaves me little doubt that you're absolutely right.

Ah, the Linotype specimen in question is online here.

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