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Zwischen Spartakus und Sozialdemokratie [tr: Between Spartacus and Social Democracy] by Paul Levi, 1969
Paperback series with political texts jointly published by Europäische Verlagsanstalt Frankfurt (Germany) and Europa Verlag Wien (Austria) in the late 1960s. The covers were designed by August Bachmeier, exclusively using Stempel Garamond. The text is positioned in an oblong framed by a fine line, with the series title aligned to the top, and the volume’s title to the bottom. The author’s name appears on top of the latter, in the same size, but in italics. The publishers’ names is shown at the very bottom, outside the rectangle, at a smaller point size. Stempel Garamond is used with its ligatures for ch (non-touching) and ft (see Feuerbach, Luxemburg).
Das Recht auf Faulheit by Paul Lafargue, 1966
Marxismus und Philosophie by Karl Korsch, 1966
Anthropologischer Materialismus. Ausgewählte Schriften I by Ludwig Feuerbach, 1967
Karl Marx by Karl Korsch, 1967
Politische Schriften I–III by Rosa Luxemburg, 1966–1968
3 Comments on “Politische Texte series”
Dig the initial swash lowercase v in the medial position in Paul Levi, like a socialist peasant who doesn’t know his place.
Ha! I see what you mean. While Stempel Garamond’s italic came with a range of alternate swash forms, this v is not one of them: it’s rather the default form, and the sole one included in the font. It’s similar (although less salient) for w. You can see the swashy v in medial position on this index card by the D. Stempel AG, for Novellen and Universität.
Wow, you’re right.
Still, it’s as if the v is shouting, “I am Spartacus!”
Stempel Garamond is near the top of my list of typefaces that need their optical ranges digitized.