A Garland for Jake Zeitlin : on the occasion of his 65th birthday & the anniversary of his 40th year in the book trade / edited by J.M. Edelstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zeitlin, Jake, 1902-1987, honoree.

Edelstein, J. M. (Jerome Melvin), 1924-1996, editor.

Marks, Saul, 1905-1974, publisher, typographer.

Marks, Lillian, typographer.

Dahlstrom, Grant Edward, publisher, printer.

Plantin Press, typographer.

Castle Press, printer.

Earle Gray Bookbinding Company, binder.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zeitlin, Jake, 1902-1987.

Zeitlin, Jake.

Bookselling--history.

Tiempo, César, 1906-1980.

Medical Subjects:

Bookselling--history.

Genre:

Private press books (Publishing) -- Castle Press.

Festschriften.

Private press books (Printing)

Penn Provenance:

Zeitlin, Jake, 1902-1987 (autograph, April 1971)

Zigrosser, Carl, 1891-1975 (inscription) (donor)

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[4], 131, [1] pages : illustrations, portrait ; 26 cm

Manufacture:

Pasadena : The Castle Press

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles [California] : Grant Dahlstrom & Saul Marks, 1967.

Contents:

Jake, by C. McWilliams

Vespasiano da Bisticci: a great bookseller & his customers, by K.T. Steinitz

The steam locomotive: a selective bibliography (p. 21-31), by E.L. DeGolyer

Memo to Jake Zeitlin, by L.C. Powell

Jake Zeitlin & the science vector, by B. Dibner

The forgotten street of books, by W. Ritchie

A day in Florence, by S.M. Malkin

Jake Zeitlin: master at filling libraries, by E. Belt

In it together, by W.A. Myers

To be or not to be organized, by R. Vosper

The telephone, by W.R. Howell

Jake Zeitlin: a graphic appreciation, by E.M. Bloch

Possibility theory & the bookshop, by P. Tuttle

A bibliography of books published by the Primavera Press (p. 117-131).

Notes:

"Typography by Saul & Lillian Marks, The Plantin Press. 800 copies printed by Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press. Binding by the Earle Gray Bookbinding Company"--Colophon.

Includes "A bibliography of books published by the Primavera Press" / J.M. Edelstein: p. 117-131.

Local Notes:

Kislak Libra copy has inscription: "To Carl Zigrosser, with thanks for more than forty years of valued friendship. Jake. Los Angeles April 1971."

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

OCLC:

429518