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Guide to the Jacob Zeitlin Collection
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Box 1, Folder 1

Publications ca. 1930 - 50

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Up and Down the Bookshelves: an Intimate Guide to Dawson's Book Shop. Los Angeles, California, by Tom Neal. No date, 16 page, illustrated booklet. Los Angeles: The Bookman Press. "A Whispered Song, " Anthology of Southern California Verse, (poem), ca. 1930
Box 1, Folder 2

Publications ca. 1950 - 60

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"Rare California Books of 2050," California Librarian, (article, 2 copies), ca. September 1, 1950 More Whispers and Chants, (book of poetry), ca. 1952 Red Barn Almanac, volume 1, no.1, ca. June - July 1953 "Small Renaissance," Bibliographical Society of America, (lecture, 4 copies), ca. August 27, 1955 Souvenir of Toledo, (pamphlet, 2 copies) ca. 1956 What Kind of Business is This? (pamphlet), ca. 1959 "Thomas Salusbury Discovered," Isis volume 50, (article, 2 copies), ca. 1959
Box 1, Folder 3

Publications 1960 - 70

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"Bookselling Among the Sciences," College and Research Libraries, (article, 2 copies), ca. November 1960 "Who Shall Silence All the Airs and Madrigals," Library Journal, (article, 2 copies), ca. June 1, 1965
Box 1, Folder 4

Publications 1970 - 80

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"Eloge," (Herbert M. Evans), Isis, (article), ca. 1971 "Bern Dibner as Friend/Collector," Society of Bibliographiles, (lecture), ca. 1973 Letter to Dr. Guluck, ca. August 22, 1975 "Harold Percy Ullman," UCLA Faculty Center, (lecture), ca. October 17, 1976 "George Washington," (lecture), ca. 1976 Letter to people. ca. May 16, 1977 "What I Believe," This I Believe, (article), November 4, 1977 Letter to people. ca. September 3, 1978 "John Bruckman," (lecture), ca. March 22, 1979 Letter to Johnsons, ca. March 27, 1979 Letter to Johnsons, ca. September 17, 1979 Letter to Editor, Los Angeles Times, (article, 3 copies), ca. January 10, 1979
Box 1, Folder 5

Publications 1980

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Letter to Johnsons, ca. January 11, 1980 Letter to Akio Saito, ca. February 23, 1981 Letter to Johnsons, ca. February 23, 1981 Letter from L. Kenney to David at Zeitlin Booksellers, ca. June 17, 1981 Letter to Helen May Johnson from Jake, ca. August 8, 1981 Letter to Jake from Helen May Johnson, ca. August 28, 1981 Letter to L. Kenney from Jake, ca. September 15, 1981 Letter to Jake from L. Kenney, ca. October 26, 1981 Letter to L. Kenney from Jake, ca. November 2, 1981 Letter to Jake from Lou, ca. February 19, 1982 Letter to L. Kenney from Jake, ca. March 1, 1982 Letter to Johnsons, ca. March 5, 1982 Letter to L. Kenney from Jake, ca. April 9, 1982 Letter to L. Kenney from Jake, ca. April 4, 1982 Letter to Johnsons, ca. September 3, 1982 "Imprint of Stanford," Libraries Association, (lecture), ca. October 1985 Letter to L. Kenney from Jake, ca. April 4, 1987 Letter to Jake from L. Kenney, ca. April 21, 1987 Letter to N. Joy from Joesphine Zeitlin, ca. November 9, 1987 "Bookseller and the Librarian," (article), n.d.
Box 1, Folder 6

Newspaper Articles ca. 1969 - 87

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"Support your Local Bookstore," Los Angeles Times, ca. October 19, 1969 "Jake Zeitlin at 75-looking back," Los Angeles Times, ca. November 1978 "The Library's Donnybook," L.A. Times, ca. March 15, 1979 "In the Spirit of Kollwitz," December 9, 1979 "Judged by their Covers," San Diego Reader, ca. September 11, 1980 "Designer brought 'Fine Printing' to Area," L.A. Times, ca. September 29, 1980 "Biting his Mother's Tongue," L.A. Times, ca. January 18, 1981 "One Book that was Bound to Sell," L.A. Times, ca. October 6, 1981 "Zeitlin, Weston: Focusing on Film," L.A. Times, ca. June 6, 1982 "L.A. Arts and Letters from A to Zeitlin," San Diego Reader, (2 copies), ca. August 13, 1982 L.A. Times, (2 copies), ca. October 6, 1983 "Jake Zeitlin's Best Sellers Top Any List," L.A. Times, ca. December 16, 1984 "Rare Man's Rare Love for Even Rarer Printed Word," L.A. Times, ca. January 1985 "Jake Zaitlin: Bookseller at the Crossroads," L.A. Times, ca. January 31, 1987
Box 1, Folder 7

Announcements

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Red Barn, ca. June 20, 1956 Jake's 60th birthday, ca. November 4, 1962 Jake's 65th birthday, ca. November 5, 1967 Rudi Baumfeld's 70th birthday, January 1, 1974 Clark Memorial Library dinner, ca. September 28, 1974 Jake's 75th birthday, (friends of UCLA library), ca. 1 November 4, 1979 Lecture-Center for South California Studies in Visual Arts (2 copies), ca. April 2, 1979 Exhibition-Center for South California Studies in Visual Arts, ca. November 26, 1979 Lecture-Center for South California Studies in Visual Arts, ca. March 18, 1981 Lecture-Friends of the Kahn Jewish Community Library (3 copies), ca. November 6, 1982 "Summer Safari of the Mind," (invitation from Library Relations, University of San Francisco), ca. July 24, 1987 Memorial Service for Jacob Zeitlin, ca. September 13, 1987 "Christmas Plenty," (brochure), n.d.
Box 2, Folder 1

Catalogs ca. 1928 - 66; 1974 - 79

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"Western Americana," cat no. 1 (2 copies), ca. 1928 "A Pleasant Pint of Seductive Spirits: A Catalogue of books," cat no. 6, n.d. "The King's Treasury of Pleasant Books & Precious Manuscripts...," cat no. 7, ca. May 13, 1932 "Our Two Decades," cat no. 14, ca. 1938 "The Great West: As Recorded in Books and Art," cat no. 213, ca. 1966 "A Splendid Gathering for Bibliophiles," cat no. 237, ca. 1974 "Zeitlin and Ver Brugge," cat no. 241, ca. 1976 "Our First Half Century," cat no. 246, ca. 1978 California State University Long Beach Exhibit, ca. 1979
Box 2, Folder 2

Catalogs ca. 1980

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"Fore-edge Painting," cat no. 279, ca. 1984 Int Antiquarian Book Fair, ca. February 1985 Int Assoc of Bibliophiles, ca. September 1985 Int Antiquarian Book Fair, ca. February 1986 "Horological Disquisitions," cat no. 287, ca. 1986 "Travel on Land and Sea," ca. 1986 "Science," cat no. 295, ca. 1987 "A Summer Miscellany," cat no. 298, ca. 1987
Box 2, Folder 3

Exhibits

Box 2, Folder 4

Miscellany