Grant Dahlstrom, master printer : a tribute on his 75th birthday / by Philip S. Brown, John Dreyfus, Ward Ritchie, Roby Wentz, Hermann Zapf & Jake Zeitlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Philip S., author.

Dreyfus, John, author.

Ritchie, Ward, 1905-1996, author.

Wentz, Roby, author.

Zapf, Hermann, author.

Zeitlin, Jake, 1902-1987, author.

Contributor:

Dahlstrom, Grant Edward, honoree.

Gerry, Vance, printer.

Kavin, Mel, binder.

New Ampersand Press, publisher.

Dawson's Book Shop, bookseller.

Zeitlin & Ver Brugge (Los Angeles, Calif.), bookseller.

Weather Bird Press, printer.

Rounce & Coffin Club, host institution.

S.D. Warren Company, papermaker.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dahlstrom, Grant Edward.

Printing--California--Los Angeles.

Printing.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Imprints.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

California--Los Angeles.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Janson.

Case bindings (Binding)

Decorated paper bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[8], 36, [2] pages : portrait ; 25 cm

Manufacture:

Fallbrook, Calif. : Weather Bird Press, 1977.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : New Ampersand Press, 1977.

Contents:

Grant Dahlstrom : a career in context / Roby Wentz

Dahlstrom: the man of the world / Philip S. Brown

Ink is thicker than water / John Dreyfus

G.D / Ward Ritchie

On quiet typography / Hermann Zapf

Grant Dahlstrom at seventy-five / Jake Zeitlin.

Notes:

Frontispiece is portrait of Grant Dahlstrom by Jim Wood.

"Published for the Rounce & Coffin Club, Los Angeles by Dawson's Book Shop ... Los Angeles ... and Zeitlin & Ver Brugge ... Los Angeles."--Verso of title leaf.

"300 copies of this book have been printed by Vance Gerry at the Weatherbird Press in Fallbrook, California 1977 ..."--Colophon.

"Warren's Olde Style paper, Janson type. Bound in specially-made paper over boards by Mel Kavin."--Twenty-five years of the Weather Bird Press.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 201 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 300 copies. See colophon.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("TO C678") in pencil on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.

Cited in:

Gerry, Vance. Twenty-five years of the Weather Bird Press, number 31a

OCLC:

5103316