All of them.

or the best collected writings: MSS by WAD

I doubt you could get closer to Dwiggins' heart than The Dwiggins Marionettes.

great thanks.

I am surprised that our resident Dwiggins devotee Miss Tiffany has not yet chimed in.

ChrisL

I have to agree with Rich, all of them is the best answer. There is a book, soon to be released, about Dwiggins' life which will be a must have. The MSS are good. WAD to RR is really good, an excellent (and historical) "primer" for type designers. I'm a collector though. So maybe my thoughts are warped.

Tiff,
What is WAD to RR? Some of us don't know the code.

ChrisL

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Dwiggins, William Addison, WAD to RR (Rudulph Ruzick) a letter about designing type. Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, 1940.

http://www.cs.ru.nl/~freek/books/wadtorr.sat

Thank you Vincent!--and I do love your business card even with all its faults :-)

ChrisL

you still making business card cracks, chris? >^P

But you are not ay Paul? :-)

ChrisL

There is a book, soon to be released, about Dwiggins’ life which will be a must have.

Who, what, where? And please stop telling people to get "all." There won't be enough for the rest of us.

George
I felt bad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no Bodoni

Tiff: The MSS are good. WAD to RR is really good, an excellent (and historical) “primer” for type designers.

It also contains one of my favorite typographic quotes;
Curves do all kinds of queer things when reduced.

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George, I'm pretty sure the "official" announcement will be out by TypeCon of this year. The book which Dorothy Abbe put together about stencils, which I purchased from Emigre a billion years ago, is a great way to observe his use of black and white.

Oak Knoll has a few juicy items right now. Search for WAD.

For anyone collecting Dwiggins, the best reference is Dwight Agner's The Books of WAD which lists everything he designed.

George
I felt bad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no Bodoni

I'm sure that book will now be considered incomplete once this new one comes out. =^D But it is an excellent resource.