Finding Aid for the Collection of Fine Press Ephemera 1940-2009
Processed by Jamie Henricks.
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
University of California, Los Angeles
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles, CA 90018
Phone: (323) 731-8529
Fax: (323) 731-8617
Email: rfenning@humnet.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/clarklib/
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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Collection of Fine Press Ephemera,
Date (inclusive): 1940-2009
Collection number: Press Coll. Ephemera
Collector: William Andrews
Clark Memorial Library
Extent:
4 boxes (4 linear feet)
Repository:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: The collection contains material from fine
presses and individual printers in the United States and England (but
primarily from California). Items include cards, advertisements,
invitations, and other printed materials.
Physical location: Clark Library
Language of Materials: Collection materials in English
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts or ephemera must be submitted in writing to the Clark
Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA as the owner of the physical items
and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright
holder, which must also be obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Collection of Fine Press Ephemera, Press
Coll. Ephemera, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of
California, Los Angeles.
Acquisition Information
This collection of fine press ephemera is an artificially created
collection. It is an accumulation of fine press materials gathered at
the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library from the 1950s to the
present. The collection will continue to grow over time.
Processing History
Processed and described by Jamie Henricks, June 2009.
Scope and Content
This collection contains printed material from fine presses and
printers in the United States and England collected by the Clark Library
from the 1950s to the present. Items include but are not limited to
printed cards, advertisements for books, invitations to events, and
short runs of private press journals. A majority of the items originate
from California.
Arrangement
This collection is organized alphabetically by name of press or printer.
Related Material
The Clark Library holds extensive collections of materials related to
fine presses in California and around the world. The Clark's library of
fine press books and pamphlets is searchable via the
UCLA Library's online
catalog.
Archival material related to or produced by presses
and printers is described at the
Online
Archive of California
.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Printed ephemera--20th
century
Printers--20th century
Private presses--20th
century
Small presses--20th
century
Genres and Forms
Ephemera--20th
century
Container List
Box 1
Artichoke Press (Jonathan Clark)
Box 1
Clover Hill Editions (Don Cleverdon)
Box 1
Cuckoo Hill Press (David Chambers)
Box 2
Doolittle, Harold & Vestina
Box 2
Elkus Press (Jonathan Elkus)
Box 2
Jones (Dana) Company -- Mister Jones' Journal
Box 2
Mermaid Press (Fridolph Johnson)
Box 2
Merrymount Press (D.B. Updike)
Box 2
Minotaur Press -- The Minotaur
Box 3
OK Press
Scope and Content Note
Invitation "Not to Attend the 9th Annual Afternoon of Acquisitions"
at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. (c) 2006 Oak Son + KunChe
Lu.
Box 3
Pacific Center for the Book Arts
Box 3
Pike Press (Willard Goodwin)
Box 3
Pinson Printers (Elmer Adler)
Box 3
Quail Press (Tom Killion)
Box 3
Rollins, Carl Purington
Scope and Content Note
Material is primarily printed for or about Yale University, and
includes a printed booklet about the individual colleges' coats of arms.
Box 4
Stagecoach Press (Jack D. Rittenhouse)
Box 4
Stratford Press (Elmer Gleason)
Box 4
Wind River Press (David Holman)
Box 4
Press of the Woolly Whale
