Guide to the Fine Press Prints, Broadsides, and Ephemera Collection
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Abbeville Press, 1991
Acorn Press, 1989
Archetype Press, 1993
Arion Press, 1987-1989
Arion Press, 1990-1994
Arion Press, 1995-1999
Arion Press, 2000-2006
Art Makers
Art Center in Santa Cruz, 1988
Arundel Press, 1992
Barbarian Press, 1987
Baxter Press, 1989
Bieler Press, 1997-2001
Bird and Bull Press, 2006
Black Sparrow Press, 1993
Book Club of California, 1988-1997
Book Collectors Club of Los Angeles, 1979
Bookhaven Press
Brighton Press
Bronte Press, 1993-1997
Buckner Press, 1993-1995
Burning Books Press, 1992-2008
Calafia Press, 1988
Castle Press, 1998-2003
Catharijne Press
Chama Press
Cheney, William, 1959
Codex Foundation, 2006
D'Ambrosio, Joe
Dead Skin Press
Ecco Press, 1993
Eremite Press
Foolscap Press, 2005-2008
Freutel, Scott, 1991
Friends of the Malcolm Love Library, 1988
Gaulke, Cheri, 1991
Gehenna Press
Goin, Peter
Good Book Press
Greenhouse Review Press
Grey Spider Press, 1997
Hackman, Vida Ratzlaff, 1994
Har-Ma Press, 1981
Havilah Press, 2002-2006
Hermetic Press, 1991
Historical Society of Southern California
Hoffman, Richard, 1972
Huckleberry Press
James, the Printer, 1997
Kairos Press
King, Susan
Kirkpatrick, Garland
Koch, Peter, 1995-2002
Kore Press
Labyrinth Editions, 1991
Latana
Lavender Armadillo Press
Linden, James
Lindgren, Gary
Logan Elm Press, 1993
Many Names Press, 1998
Meadow Press, 1987
Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, 1998
Mornum Time Press
Moving Parts Press
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, 1988
Napa Valley Museum, 1994
Never Mind the Press, 1989-1990
Ninja Press, 1992-2010
Nut Quad Press, 1998
Oak Knoll Press, 2005
Occasional Works Press, 1991-1998
Okeanos Press
Orlando Gallery, 1990
Paradise Press, 1988
Pazifische Presse, 2000
Pequeño Press, 1993
Peripatetic Press
Peter's Press, 1998
Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts, 1993
Plantin Press, 1967
Port and Starboard Press
Pre-Columbian Press
Press at the Camperdown Elm, 1990
Press of the Palace of Governors Museum of New Mexico, 1987-1990
Press of Time, 1989
Price, Robin, 1989-1996
Printmaker Press
Protean Press
Quail Press
Rain Press, 1991
Rattlesnake Press, 1997
Reagh, Patrick
Red Butte Press
Rocket Press, 1989
Rounce and Coffin Club, 1981
Rosenberg, Marilyn, 1991
Roxburghe Club, 1999
Scripps College Press, 1988-2007
Sea Pen Press and Papermill, 1989
Sherwin Beach Press
Silver Buckle Press, 1995
Solo Press
Street of Crocodiles Press, 1991
Support Living Artists
Sutton Hoo Press
Tamazunchale Press
Taylor, Thomas, 1990
Thaumatrope Press
Thorne, C., 1991
Tree Garden Workshop, 1994-1995
Two Hands Press
2 Press
USC Fine Arts Press, 1990
Unicorn Books, 1969
University Art Museum, Cal State Long Beach, 1991
Warwick Press, 2004
Water Row Press, 1991
Waxwing Editions, 1995
Whittington Press, 1989
Whitney Museum Library, 1992
Worf, Sarah
Wind and Harlot Press
Windowpane Press, 1993
Woman's Building, 1989
Women's Graphic Center
Yolla Bolly Press
Yolla Bolly Press
Yolla Bolly Press
Yolla Bolly Press
Yolla Bolly Press
Yolla Bolly Press
Yolla Bolly Press, Bookfarm
Yolla Bolly Press, Limited Editions in Stock
Yonno Press
Zida Borcich Letterpress
Unknown Presses
Arion Press, 1988-2005
Prospectus: Ulysses by James Joyce with 40 original etchings by Robert Motherwell, 1988
Prospectus: Eureka by Edgar Allan Poe with eight prints by Arakawa, 1991
Prospectus: A Lie of the Mind by Sam Shepard and Illustrated by Stan Washburn, 1993
Prospectus: The Case of the Wolf-Man by Sigmund Freud with etchigns and woodcuts by Jim Dine, 1993
Prospectus Letter: Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, 1994
Prospectus: Kora in Hell Improvisations by William Carlos Williams with prints by Mel Kendrick, 1998
Prospectus: Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf with Photographs by Diana Michener, 2005
Blackbird Press, 1985-1989
"Broken Lines" by Lawrence R. Smith - Illustrated by Carolyn Prince Batchelor - Printed by Jean Gillingwators, 1985
"Poetwoman: Myth in Progress" by Katherine Wells - Illustrated by Laura Brouse - Printed by Jean Gillingwators, 1985
"Foothill Country Day School" by Howell Webb - Illustrated by Olivia Haskell, 1986
"Special Invitation" by Katherine Wells - Illustrated by Scott Miller - Printed by Jean Gillingwators, 1988
"Branding" by Gretel Ehrlich - Illustrated by Susan Nees, 1989
Equinox Press, 1947-1964
Announcement of the Establishment of Equinox Press - Illustrated by Mary Fabilli (2 copies), 1947
"The Rose of Solitude" by Brother Antoninus, 1964
"The Preacher's Coagulate Rhetoric" by William Everson
"Prologue: At the Edge" by William Everson
"Stone Face Falls" by William Everson - Illustrated by Ray Rice
Greenhouse Review Press, 1989
"Big Jake" by Timothy Sheehan - Illustrated by Gene Holtan, 1989
"Katie's Birthday Bug" by Timothy Sheehan - Illustrated by Gene Holtan, 1989
"February 18" by Gary Young
"The Hiding Place" by John Hall
Prospectus: "A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance" by Stéphane Mallarmé - Translated by D.J. Waldie
"Styrofoamosaurus" by Timothy Sheehan - Illustrated by Gene Holtan
Lord John Press, 1977-1983
"Abandoned Airfield" by Joyce Carol Oates (2 copies), 1977
"Blackbird Sundown" by William Everson - Illustrated by Ron Sauter, 1978
"Nicholas Vergette 1923-1974" by John Gardner, 1978
"Snowfall" by Joyce Carol Oates, 1978
"Where Naked Troubadours Shoot Snotty Baboons" by William S. Burroughs - Illustrated by James R. Silke, 1978
"Conditional" by John Fowles - Calligraphy by M. Carey, 1979
"The Poet Considers his Resources" by Ray Bradbury, 1979
"And Half of the World a Bridegroom is, and Half of the World a Bride" by William Watson - Illustrated by Donald Barthelme, 1980
"The Stone Orchard" by Joyce Carol Oates - Illustrated by Matt Phillips, 1980
"Imagine" by Ray Bradbury - Illustrated by Joe Mugnaini, 1981
"Cougar" by William Everson, 1982
"Small-City People" by John Updike - Illustrated by Don Rico, 1982
A Spenserian Sonnet by Robert B. Parker, 1983
Miscellaneous Items, 1841-1995
Five Mexican Broadsides from Zacatecas, 1841-1853
"Tribute to Gutenberg" - Illustrated by Joseph Sanford, 1924
Certificate from Spring Valley Water Company Honoring Captain A.H. Payson, 1930
"St. Patrick was a Gentleman" - Illustrated by Mallette Dean, 1939
Invitation: Ward Ritchie at the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, 1956
"The Wand" by Clayton Eshleman, 1970
"Manzanita" by Gary Snyder – A Keepsake of the Dedication of the Kent State University Library, 1971
Address Delivered at a Joint Session of Congress by Gerald Ford, 1973
Eagle Drawing by Ward Ritchie, 1976
"Dead Man, Dying Girl" by Reynolds Price - Illustrated by Chuck Miller, 1978
"The Book as an Art Form" by Joe D'Ambrosio, 1983
"The Book as an Art Medium" by Joe D'Ambrosio, 1983
"Birds in Paradise (or) Life Upon a Japanese Screen" by Joe D'Ambrosio, 1984
"Happy 80th Birthday Ward Ritchie" by Joe D'Ambrosio, 1985
"Death Has Lost Its Charm for Me" by Ray Bradbury, 1986
California State University, Northridge First Amendment Exhibit, 1987
Exhibit Poster: Peter Koch, Printer – Cowboy Surrealists, Maverick Poets & Pre-Socratic Philosophers – San Francisco Public Library and New York Public Library, 1995
Prospectus: "Ravaged With Joy" by William Everson with Woodcuts by Keiji Shinohara, 1998
Address by Ralph Waldo Emerson - Illustrated by Laurence B. Haste
"America – An American Epic" by Ray Bradbury
Chain Letter (2 copies)
"Ditez-Donc? Comment ca-va?" (2 copies)
Drawing of Plaque: "Make No Little Plans" written by Daniel H. Burnham
"Make Yourself Useful" (2 copies)
"September California" by Richard Brautigan - Illustrated by Richard Correll
Miscellaneous Presses, 1934-1991
Arif Press: "Two Logging Songs," 1973
The Basilisk Press: Prospectus for The Kelmscott Chaucer with a companion volume of Burne-Jones drawings by Duncan Robinson; The Australian Flower Paintings of Ferdinand Bauer Botanical - Text by Dr. William T. Stearn; The Red Books of Humphry Repton with an explanatory volume by Edward Malins, 1974
Bedford Arts Publishers: Prospectus for O California! Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century California Landscapes and Observations by Jack Werner Stauffacher, 1989
Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia: Prospectus for Two Mementoes from the Poe-Ingram Collection, 1971
Black Sparrow Press: Prospectus for Coils - A New Book of Poems by Clayton Eshleman, 1977
The Book Club of California: Prospectus for An Artist Records the California Missions by Henry Chapman Ford, 1989
The Book Club of California: Prospectus f or The Heathen Chinee by Bret Harte - Illustrated by Phil Little - Printed by John Henry Nash, 1934
The Book Club of California: Prospectus for Texas Argonauts by Richard H. Dillon - Illustrated by Charles Shaw, 1987
Bookworm Press: "The Lady with the Scarlet Shoes" by Alix Egerton - Illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith (2 copies), 1975
Castle Press: "On Books" by John Gardner, 1981
City Lights Books: "Populist Manifesto" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1975
City Lights Books: "Rimbaud" by Jack Kerouac, 1960
The Gehenna Press: Portrait and News Item on Benjamin Franklin
Lavender Armadillo Press: "One Winter I was in Love with Oranges" by Jean Krenzer, 1988
Lavender Armadillo Press: "Sappho: Bridesmaids' Carol II" by Robin Price (2 copies), 1988
The Lime Kiln Press: "West to the Water Six Poets: A Santa Cruz Portfolio" by George Hitchcock, Mary Norbert Korte, Peter Veblen, Naomi Clark, John Skinner and William Everson, 1972
Monash University: Prospectus for The Banksias, Volume II, by Alexander George illustrated by Celia Rosser, 1989
Northland Press: "Occasional Broadside Number 1: Desert Sky and Clouds" by John C. Van Dyke, 1979
Northland Press: Prospectus for Occasional Broadsides
Orange County Book Society: "Then is All Love? It is, it is!" by Ray Bradbury - Illustrated by Scott Fitzgerald, 1981
Penmaen Press: "Moloch" by Allen Ginsberg - Illustrated by Lynd Ward, 1978
Peregrine Press: "Ever Normal Turmoil" by Carl Sandburg, 1950
Press of the Pegacycle Lady: "Lemons" by Eugenio Montale - Translated by E.F. Tuttle, 1977
Press of the Pegacycle Lady: "A Cruikshank Outrage" by George Somes Layard, 1980
Press-22: "Iowa" by John Updike - Etching by Liza Jones, 1980
Scott Paper Company: "Principles of Freedom" designed by Hermann Zapf
Scripps College Press: "Color," 1987
Slow Loris Press: "Public Outcry" by Joyce Carol Oates, 1976
Waves Press: "An Oddly Lovely Day Alone" by John Updike, 1979
Windowpane Press: "For a Dance" by Jackson Browne (2 copies), 1991
Yonno Press: Prospectus for Cookery by Fred Chappell - Illustrated by John Martin
Ninja Press, 1986-2010
Poem by Henry David Thoreau, 1986
Poem for Mercy at the Winter Solstice by Michael Hannon, 1986
"The Basilisk," 1987
"November Day at McClure's" by Robert Bly, 1987
"Honoring the 150 th Birthday of John Muir," 1988
Invitation: Carolee Campbell of Ninja Press at the Beverly Hills Public Library, 1996
"True Dharma" by Michael Hannon, 2001
"Ninja Press at Twenty – Exhibit at Clark Memorial Library at UCLA," 2004
"Ninja Press at Twenty – Exhibit at UCSB," 2004
"Ninja Press at Twenty – Exhibit at UCSD Libraries," 2004
"Tradition" by Thomas Cahill, 2005
"The Flight of the Reader" by Billy Collins, 2006
"Flying at Night" by Ted Kooser - Designed by Carolee Campbell, 2008
"Alphabet Juice" by Roy Blount Jr. - Designed by Carolee Campbell, 2009
"Vixen" by W.S.Merwin - Designed by Carolee Campbell, 2010
"A Happy Dog Is" by José Montoya (3 copies)
Palaemon Press, 1977-1982
Broadside Number Two: "The Dream of a House" by Reynolds Price, 1977
Broadside Number Four: "Old Flame" by Robert Penn Warren - Graphic by Robert Dance, 1978
Broadside Number Six: "The Shark at the Window" by James Dickey - Graphic by Robert Dance, 1951
Broadside Number Eleven: "Narcissus" by O.B. Hardison, Jr. - Graphic by Anne Carter Pollard, 1979
Broadside Number Thirteen: "Talking to Trees" by Sean Siobhan - Illustrated by Justine Linville, 1979
Broadside Number Fifteen: "Hold April" by Jesse Stuart - Illustrated by Edward Richter, 1979
Broadside Number Seventeen: "Homestead Act" by Jerald Bullis, 1980
Broadside Number Eighteen: "Loneliness" by Kelly Cherry, 1980
Broadside Number Nineteen: "Those Who are Gone" by Reginald Gibbons, 1980
Broadside Number Twenty: "The Wheel" by Wendell Berry, 1980
Broadside Number Twenty-One: "The Consequence of Weather" by Dara Wier, 1981
Broadside Number Twenty-Three: "An Epinician Ode in Honor of John Crowe Ransom" by Donald Davidson, 1981
Broadside Number Twenty-Four: "To the Nuthatches" by Gibbons Ruark, 1981
Broadside Number Twenty-Five: "The Way Back" by Robert Morgan, 1981
Broadside Number Twenty-Six: "The Dreamers" by Brewster Ghiselin, 1981
Broadside Number Twenty-Seven: "From Musing Toward Grasmere" by Marion Montgomery, 1981
Broadside Number Twenty-Nine: "A Broken Lake" by James Applewhite, 1982
Broadside Number Thirty: "Two Minnesota Poems" by Eugene J. McCarthy, 1982
Broadside Number Thirty-One: "Groundwork" by Dabney Stuart, 1982
Broadside Number Thirty-Two: "Two Poems" by Miller Williams, 1982
Broadside Number Thirty-Three: "In Defense of Myself" by Erskine Caldwell, 1982
Broadside Number Thirty-Four: "Who Are They?" By Robert Watson, 1982
Broadside Number Thirty-Five: "Styles of Bloom" by John Updike, 1982
"Agamemnon Speaks" by David R. Slavitt
Rook Press, 1975-1978
"The Duel That is Vertical" by Samuel Hazo, 1975
"Further Adventures of Charles Simic" by Charles Simic, 1975
"Mermaid" by William Heyen, 1975
"The Psychologist" by Karen Swenson, 1975
"Sunday in Boston" by John Updike, 1975
"Two Riddles from Aldhelm" by Richard Wilbur, 1975
"Pickerel" by William Heyen, 1978
Santa Susana Press, 1975-1991
Proof: "Marshall McLuhan," 1975
"The Last Judgment" by Clayton Eshleman, 1977
"The Bike Repairmen" by Ray Bradbury - Designed and Printed by Pall Boehne, 1978
"A Pear Like a Potato" by John Updike - Illustrated by Irving Block, 1986
"The Twilight of Orthodoxy in New England" by William Nykamp (10 copies and 1 Proof), 1987
"Type-Faces" by Ward Ritchie - Illustrated by Joe D'Ambrosio (3 copies), 1988
"Five Poems" by Benjamin Saltman (2 copies), 1989
"Old Wine, Fine Wine?" by Roy Brady (2 copies), 1990
Dedication of the Oviatt Library, Phase II, 1991
"Baker" by George Cruikshank
"For Mark Kritzer" by Clayton Eshleman
Poster: George Silverman's Explanation by Charles Dickens - Illustrated by Irving Block (2 copies)
"Man Dead? Then God is Slain!"
Women's Building Press, 1986-1989
"Disabled Women: Hidden from History" by Anne Finger and Bonnie Thompson Norman, 1986
"Today… tomorrow" by Carlos Aguilar, Bonnie Thompson Norman, and Plaza de la Raza, 1987
"Today… tomorrow" by Nora Calderon, Bonnie Thompson Norman, and Plaza de la Raza, 1987
"Today… tomorrow" by Lucia Covarrubias, Bonnie Thompson Norman, and Plaza de la Raza, 1987
"Today… tomorrow" by Zoila Covarrubias, Bonnie Thompson Norman, and Plaza de la Raza, 1987
"Today… tomorrow" by Angelica Jimenez, Bonnie Thompson Norman, and Plaza de la Raza, 1987
"Today… tomorrow" by Rigoberto Jimenez, Jr., Bonnie Thompson Norman, and Plaza de la Raza, 1987
"Today… tomorrow" by Leslie Juarez, Bonnie Thompson Norman, and Plaza de la Raza, 1987
"Today… tomorrow" by Alice Yu, Bonnie Thompson Norman, and Plaza de la Raza, 1987
"Tierra del Sol Art Gallery: Able Independence through Loving Guidance" by the Tierra del Sol Foundation and Bonnie Thompson Norman, 1988
Poster-book: "Once Upon a Moment" by Bonnie Thompson Norman, 1989
Yolla Bolly Press, 1989-2000
Prospectus: Storytellers Series, 1989
Prospectus: Roan Stallion by Robinson Jeffers, 1990
Prospectus: One of the Missing: Civil War Stories by Ambrose Bierce - Illustrated by David Page, 1991
Prospectus: The Man Who Died by D.H. Lawrence - Illustrated by Leonard Baskin, 1992
Prospectus: The Bread of Days - Eleven Mexican Poets Translated by Samuel Beckett - Illustrated by Enrique Chagoya, 1994
Prospectus: Theseus by André Gide - Illustrated by Sidney Goodman, 1998
Prospectus: Paris, France by Gertrude Stein - Illustrated by Ward Schumaker, 2000