Speedball Text Book: Modern Pen Lettering 7th Edition (1923) — Hardcover Reprint

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This book is printed one copy at a time when you order it. There is no warehouse shelf of these — your copy goes on the press after you check out. Hardcover binding takes longer than paperback. Please allow 3–4 weeks from order to delivery.

About this book

The 7th Edition of the Speedball Text Book — Modern Pen Lettering — is where Ross F. George and William Hugh Gordon's classic hit its stride. Published in 1923, this vintage pen lettering manual teaches the Speedball method through the two men who defined it: George, the pen's great popularizer, and Gordon, the era's leading lettering teacher.

Inside are the working materials of 1920s commercial lettering: broad-nib alphabets in single-stroke and shaded styles, show-card and advertisement layouts, borders, and the handling of the Speedball pen itself. George and Gordon wrote for the working letterer and the serious student alike — every alphabet is a tool for earning a living, every layout a lesson in selling with letters.

For hand letterers, calligraphy students, and sign painters, the Speedball texts remain among the most usable vintage manuals ever printed: the instruction is clear, the alphabets are practical, and the method transfers directly to today's broad-edge pens. Collectors value the 7th edition as a prime early-1920s statement of the method, before later editions revised the canon.

Whether you're learning pen lettering or collecting the books that taught America to letter, George and Gordon's 7th Edition is a cornerstone of any lettering library. 1923, and still teaching.

Details: 6×9" hardcover (case laminate), black and white interior, cream paper.

?? Please read before ordering — about print quality

This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document. The pages were scanned from an original 1923 printing, and the print quality of your book reflects the condition of that original scan.

What that means in plain terms: you may see faded text, uneven inking, age spots, show-through from the back of pages, and other imperfections that were in the 1923 original or introduced by the scanning process. These are preserved as-is — they are not printing defects, and they are not something we can fix.

We are not responsible for the condition of the original source material. If you want a pristine modern typeset book, this isn't it. If you want the actual 1923 book with all its character intact, you're in the right place.

Printed on demand by IngramSpark. One copy at a time — no inventory, no waste.