Two Books on Jewish Typesetters - Der "Bachur Ha'Zetzet" Meir Castoff - the Author's Dedication / Die entstehung ...

Two Books on Jewish Typesetters - Der "Bachur Ha'Zetzet" Meir Castoff - the Author's Dedication / Die entstehung meiner Hadassah-Hebraisch, Henry Friedlander
A. Meir Castoff Der "Bachur Ha'Zetzet" – 50 Yor Alt 1885-1935 (Meir Castoff the typesetter, the 50th anniversary of his birth). New York, 1935. Yiddish.
On the title page, three lithographs of the artist Saul Raskin.
Th elithograph at the center of the title page - a typesetter in the image of Meir Castoff.
The book contains five additional photographs of Castoff, his family yand colleagues.
A rare copy with Chastoff's dedication and signature, December 1935.
126 pp. 25x17 cm.
Condition: The leaves are in very good condition. The bindings is stained and torn with no damage to text.
B. Die entstehung meiner Hadassah-Hebraisch (The Beginning of My Hebrew Hadassah). Hamburg, 1967. German and Hebrew.
On the cover (in Hebrew): "Write the vision and make it plain upon the tablets, that he who reads it may run" (Habbakuk 2:2).
The author's photograph is glued onto page 36.
The text is in German accompanied by examples of Hebrew fonts.
38 pp. 23x15 cm.
Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Slight stains on the binding.