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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.
- 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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