I guess you were hooked by the come-on, "If printing is your thing..."

Richard whats up with your new Star Ucks logo, did they finally do the right thing?

A variety of consonants are awaiting insertion pending resolution.

It's amazing. For this sum I would at least have investigated if there is an alternative.

http://www.abebooks.de/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=262656236

Maybe I should sell mine.

The E-Bay book was a 1848 type specimen book, while Abe Books is offering and 1882 book. Not the same thing, I should think.

T

> A variety of consonants are awaiting insertion pending resolution.

:->
http://www.theonion.com/onion2816/vowels2816.html

hhp

I was wondering when someone was going to post that Onion story... aren't we due for the "Helvetica sweeps the Fontys" article to be posted? :^)

> The E-Bay book was a 1848 type specimen book, while Abe Books is offering and 1882 book. Not the same thing, I should think.

yes, of course. but would you pay 2.700 $ for 34 years? I don't think, that there is a such a huge difference between those books.

The book may well be extremely rare and obviously worth that much to at least two parties. It was just a few grand more than I would have considered paying.

I was struck that for a listing of a type specimen book, there was a curious lack of type specimens shown. I am sure the seller was in shock at the final price.

> a curious lack of type specimens shown.

Makes sense. The people who pay that kind of money are collectors - they have little interest in the content.

hhp