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Of bookmen & printers : a gathering of memories / by Ward Ritchie.

LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1461
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ritchie, Ward, 1905-1996, author, book designer.
Contributor:
D'Ambrosio, binder.
Dawson's Book Shop, publisher.
Premier Printing Corporation, printer.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Ritchie, Ward, 1905-1996--Friends and associates.
Ritchie, Ward.
Ritchie, Ward, 1905-1996.
Book industries and trade--History--20th century.
Book industries and trade.
Book industries and trade--Employees--Biography.
Printing--History--20th century.
Printing.
Printers--Biography.
Printers.
Book industries and trade--Employees.
Friendship.
Genre:
Biographies
History
Limitation statements (Publishing)
Private press books (Printing)
Penn Provenance:
Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Ritchie, Ward, 1905-1996, (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Powell, Lawrence Clark,1906-2001 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Physical Description:
189, [2] pages ; 25 cm
Manufacture:
[Brea, California] : Premier Printing Corporation
Other Title:
Of bookmen and printers
Place of Publication:
Los Angeles, California : Dawson's Book Shop, [1989]
Contents:
For Ward a foreword / by Lawrence Clark Powell
A bookman's Los Angeles in the 1930s
Jake Zeitlin, when he was joyous young
Paul Landacre, artist and wood engraver
Merle Armitage, his many loves and varied lives
Robinson Jeffers, recollections of the poet
Jane Grabhorn, the roguish printer of the Jumbo Press
Paris adventure with François-Louis Schmied
John Cage, the maniac of music
St. John Hornby and the Ashendene Press
A requiem for Lawrence Clark Powell
Virginia City and the genesis of a cookbook.
Notes:
Revisions of articles previously published.
Includes index.
"Five hundred copies, designed by Ward Ritchie, were printed by the Premier Printing Corporation for Dawson's Book Shop. "--Colophon.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 26 of 50 in a special hand binding designed and produced by D'Ambrosio.
Contains:
Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-2001. For Ward a foreword.
For Ward a foreword.
ISBN:
0870932756
9780870932755
OCLC:
21161561

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