I only have the English version which of course is different from the original from 1928 which probably was Akzidenz Grotesk (or Bücher Grotesk or Royal Grotesk if I am not completely wrong) as Yves said.


In this case though:

Frutiger is used on the cover.

Inside is Frutiger for headlines. And something that isn't Univers for body but bears a resemblance to it. And since this is what you probably wanted to know I am sad to say that I don't know it.

By the way... I find the book very irritating to read.
The type is extremely light and the paper is very glossy which means that if I try to read this book with any kind of lighting nearby I am blinded by the dazzling reflexion from the insanely bright paper and the type is lost in what seems to be a nuclear blast of a backlight.
Just my opinion.

mg

Well, the "California" edition of 1998 contains "A Note on the Book and it's Design" (!) -- ... has attempted to follow the author's original page layouts and design precepts as closely as possible. Aurora Grotesk, shown in the Berthold Photoypes E1 catalog (1974), was identified as the typeface closest to that used in the original German edition; this typeface, however, had not been digitized at the time the California edition was produced. The text was set in 7.75 Image Light Extended with a 11.6 point leading. The typeface was revised by extending its overall set widths by 112 percent; character spacing was expanded to a Quark XPress tracking value of 16."
rest of fonts: Frutiger Ultra Black.
The "shiny" paper was selected to match the original edition... haha!
I think I have a fascimile edition of the original German edition somewhere, but don't know where. Sorry.

You are completely right. I just flipped through to the back of the book... there it is in black letters on shiny bright white paper.

Wasn't that Berthold Akzidenz-Grotesk (or its predecessor)?