Box 207, Folder 18
Bruce Rogers panel discussion by Ward Ritchie
Box 179, Folder 8
California Avifauna keepsake series
1990
Box 214, Folder 2
Book Club Printers, 1962-1987: page proofs, designs for title page
Box 136, Folder 3-4B
Book Collectors Club of Los Angeles
Box 191, Folder 14
Brothers of the Book Club
Box 154, Folder 15
California Historical Society
Box 36, Folder 1, Box 123/10, Folder 6
Box 206, Folder 28
First Edition Club
Contents
Book catalogue of John Bell books and newspapers.
Box 121, Folder 4
Gleeson Library Associates, University of San Francisco
Box 207, Folder 40, Box 207, Folder 7, Box 119, Folder 10
Historical Society of Southern California
Contents
Historical Society of Southern California, a Centennial History (Ts)
Box 127, Folder 17
John D. Bruckman Rare Book Committee
Box 139, Box 106, Folder 1-11, Box 105, Folder 1-16, Box 208, Folder 11
Assorted materials relating to the Limited Editions Club
1929-1970
Contents
correspondence, business records, catalogues, newsletters, prospectuses,
The Call of the Wild by Jack London,
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce (1942),
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce (1943-1970),
Youth; Typhoon; The End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad (1970-1972),
The Nigger of the Narcissus, (1962-1973),
American Indian Legends, (1967-1969)
Box 207, Folder 11
Silver Jubilee Dinner Party
1954
Contents
Copy of book bound in silver cloth with inscription from George Macy to Ward Ritchie.
Box 141, Folder 11
Los Angeles Art Directors Club Awards
1948
Box 159, Folder 7
Midwestern Books Competition
1966
Box 159, Folder 10
Printing Historical Society
Box 8, Folder 13, Box 99, Folder 13, Box 207, Folder 42, Box 188, Box 122, Folder 1-5, Box 123/10, Folder 1A-1C, Box 191, Folder 13, Box 214, Folder 9, Box 221, Folder 2, Box 218, Folder 2
Assorted materials relating to the Rounce and Coffin Club
1931-1981
Contents
correspondence, newsletters, keepsakes, ephemera, awards, certificates
Box 137, Folder 27
Rounce Coffin Club (roster)
Box 139, Box 159, Folder 19, Box 30, Folder 4
Box 203
Western Books of 1938 1939 archive
Contents
Bound materials relating to the 1938 & 1939 Western Books competition sponsored by the Rounce & Coffin Club, including letters
from entrants, accepts and regrets, jury selection, judging specifications, catalogue preparation, award certificate, list
of books rejected, exhibition announcements, press, etc. 1938 spiral bound with red paperboard covers. 1939 sprial bound with
green paperboard covers.
Box 204
Western Books of 1956 archive
Contents
Bound materials relating to the 1956 Western Books competition sponsored by the Rounce & Coffin Club, including letters from
entrants, accepts and regrets, jury selection, judging specifications, catalogue preparation, award certificate, list of books
rejected, exhibition announcements, press, etc. Bound in red leather with plastic comb binding.
Box 204
Western Books of 1949 exhibition poster
Box 191, Folder 16, Box 209, Folder 6, Box 209, Folder 42, Box 159, Folder 11, Box 141, Folder 31
Box 212, Folder 11, Box 218, Folder 2
Roxburghe/Zamorano oversized ephemera
Box 139
Society of Typographic Arts
Box 159, Folder 12
Southern Books competition
1976
Box 141, Folder 17
Southeastern Library Association
Contents
6th Annual Southern Books Competition, 1957
Box 98, Folder 9, Box 191, Folder 17, Box 105, Folder 18-21, Box 159, Folder 14, Box 188
Typophiles
1938-1968
Contents
correspondence, red expanding file titled "Typophiles Items" with various keepsakes and ephemera
Box 191, Folder 18, Box 159, Folder 15-16
Box 158, Box 191, Folder 15
Box 158
Wassail.... the Thistle Club
Contents
Invitation to their first meeting [2 copies, one with corrections (one gift of Michael Thompson, one from Ritchie's files
with corrections)]
Box 142, Folder 10, Box 141, Folder 31, Box 208, Folder 29, Box 189, Box 145, Folder 48, Box 191, Folder 12
Assorted materials relating to the Zamorano Club
1932-1995
Contents
Zamorano Club ephemera, including club announcements spanning 1932-1995.
Box 137, Folder 32
The Zamorano Club (roster)
Box 179, Folder 15
Typescript of club history written by Ward Ritchie and other club ephemera (brown cloth box)
Box 200, Folder 7
Keepsake: Facsimile of the 1816 census of the Pueblo of Los Angeles
1972
Box 200, Folder 8
Keepsake: Bruce McCallister print
1928
Box 206, Folder 23
Photograph of Zamorano Club members
1989
Box 211, Folder 12
Keepsake: Kelmscott Chaucer leaf
Misc. clubs, societies, and associations materials
Box 191, Folder 9
Membership lists for various clubs and societies
Box 191, Folder 10
Assorted clubs, societies, and associations ephemera
Box 191, Folder 11
Reprints and keepsakes for clubs, socities, and associations
Assorted Ephemera Subseries V_1_
Box 148, Folder 5B.
Ephemera printed by Ward Ritchie
Box 131, Folder 5
Membership cards and hotel labels
Box 36, Folder 2, Box 145, Folder 41A-41B, 52, Box 148, Folder 5F, 7, Box 155, Folder 15-17, Box 131, Folder 6, Box 33, Folder 2-3, Box 219
Box 209, Folder 49-55
Miscellaneous printers' and booksellers' ephemera
Box 141, Folder 59
Binding fabric (swatches)
Box 148, Folder 8
Miscellaneous ephemera (other presses)
Box 147, Folder 10
Admission ticket to
Werewolf, August 6, 1984
Box 147, Folder 13
United States Zip Code directory
Box 142, Folder 2
Los Angeles city and county directory
Box 154, Folder 21
Blank book with illustration on cover (orange/brown)
Box 131, Folder 7
Gas stamps, correspondence, 7-inch record, 5 kronor
Box 5
Mailing labels
Contents
Three folders, approximately 200 items. Includes specimens of the Merrymount Press, Pynson Printers, Curwen Press, Young &
McCallister, etc.
Box 150
Menus (plus oversized menus in drawer)
Box 159, Folder 5, Box 4, Folder 4
Box 28, Folder 3-4
Company bulletins (architecture)
Box 28, Folder 5
Company handbooks and manuals
Box 145, Folder 55
Anderson, Ritchie, and Simon news
Box 141, Folder 42
Artwork used in books (photographs)
Box 118, Folder 9
Vroman's Bookstore advertising
Box 145, Folder 13
David Alfaro Siqueiros block prints, 1932
Box 145, Folder 47
White Star Line--On Board the RMS "Homeric"
Box 207, Folder 5
Color postcards of books designed and bound by Kerstin Tini Miura
Contents
Five sets of color postcards protected in paper wrappers, including Bibliophile Bindings, Poems in Color, Twelve Views of
Tini Miura's Bibliophile Bindings for Trees Talk, Twelve Views of Tini Miura's Bibliophile Bindings for the Private Presses,
and Beautiful Hand-bound Books.
Box 214, Folder 11
"The Ritchies Yes"
General
Removed from Box E1 (?), Folder 8; originally in Map Drawers (now in Box 214)
Box 214, Folder 13
Miscellaneous Foreign Printing Ephemera
Box 214, Folder 14
Miscellaneous U.S. Printing Ephemera
Box 215, Folder 13, Box 216, Folder 1, 7, 12, Box 217, Folder 1, 3-4, 6-9, 11
Oversize prints and ephemera
General
Box 215/13: Program with introduction by Lawrence Clark Powell; Jeffers, Robinson, "Rock and Hawk", 1928; Armour, Richard,
"Joseph A. Foster"; Armour, Richard, "The Scripps Five"
Box 216/1 : Calendar - Andrews, Nelson, Whitehead
Box 216/7 : Broadside of Kelmscott Manor; printed reproductions of drawings by Sanford Berger
Box 216/12 : Pamphlets: Christmas Essay, 1946; Beer Tasting & BBQ event, 1938; Broadsides: "Senator Vest's Tribute to a Dog",
"Desert Sky and Clouds" by John C. Van Dyke
Box 217/1 : Santa Susana Press, 1988, Type-Faces: A Photographic Study of Ward Ritchie, includes two photographs?; Ward Ritchie
80th Birthday Broadside (2); Huntington Library Entrance Sign, 1952; 1849-1949 Gold Rush Centennial - William Andrews Clark
Library, 1949; Grant, Lester - "The Challenge of Cancer", 1949 (Cover Photographs).
Box 217/3 : Nash, John Henry - "A Printer Dreams a Terrible Dance of Death", 1982 (3)
Box 217/4 : "Abraham Lincoln to his fellow countrymen" - Public Works Art Project, 1934; L.P. White Co. - "The Councellors
of the Privy Council Press… Leo H. Joachim"; Prospectus for "Persian Miniaures" by Laurence Binyon, JV Wilkinson; LA County
Commendation, 1994
Box 217/6 : Zeitlin, Jake, "The earliest printing of Alta California", 1938; Occidental College Student Book Collection Contest,
1960; Warren Press, "The dialogues of the Tarquinius Bartolus"; List of books printed on Dard Hunter paper and note to Bill
regarding the list, 1978; Paylore, Patricia, "Up in Coconino County...", 1953.
Box 217/7 : Various oversized menus
Box 217/8: Rounce & Coffin Club 25 Years Later Broadside, signed by W. Grant Dahlstrom, Ward Ritchie, Jake Zeitlin, and Saul
Marks; Ritchie, Ward, "Untitled", 1977 (looks like coffee/paint stains); "from Gutenberg to the Twentieth Century" sheets;
Original designs for "Permanent collection: the cookbook of the alliance of the Laguna Beach Art Museum"
Box 217/9 : Hackett Newell Co., Village Press announcement; Scripps College, Ward Ritchie Day Proclamation, 1984
Box 217/11 : Letterpress and some of design by Patrick Reagh, offset by Castle Pess; The Studio Press Prospectus/ Edwin and
Robert Grabhorn
Box 218, Folder 3-9, drawer 34, Folder 2, drawer 33, Folder 2-3, 5
Oversize prints and broadsides
General
Box 218/3 : Print of "The Boat" by Peter Blume (removed from Ward Ritchie's portfolio of "The Club")
Box 218/4 : Two prints: A photographic print signed "padilla"; "Paul Landacre: Wood Engravings"
Box 218/5 : Five broadsides: "A Letter from Robinson Jeffers" by Kerwin and Dorothy Whitnah and Arlen and Clara Louise Philpott;
"Twelve Alphabetik Images in Colour" (David Kindersley); "Goldmeter, the Gold Seekers' Guide"; "Chinese Whisper," Hamlet's
soliloquy translated from French by Voltaire and retranslated into English by "Many Hands"; an excerpt from the Rule of Saint
Benedict printed in 1969 by Zeitlin and Ver Brugge
Box 218/6 : One delicate pieces of art: print of an 1850 drawing by H.M.T. Powell, titled "Pueblo de Los Angeles..." by the
Grabhorn Press
Box 218/7 : Three posters/pieces of art: One is a poster for a 1963/1964 retrospective of Jacques Lipchitz's artwork, listing
partiicpating museums; another is titled "Southwest Indian Designs" and features hand-drawn (then printed) designs and symbols
used by various tribes; the third is a pamphlet for "An Exhibition of American Design, The Lakeside Press Galleries"
Box 218/8 : One large empty envelope labeled "Menus for Sylvia at Christmas" and "Y+R [illegible]"; one large stip of paper
reading "Ward Ritchie, Printer - A 75th Birthday Salute"; and one boradside for the 1982 International Antiquarian Book Fair
Box 218/9 : Two copies of "A Prospectus Giving Particulars and Specimen Pages of the Bruce Rogers World Bible"
Drawer 34/2 : "Boat Canyon, Laguna Beach" by Bennett Bradbury
Drawer 33/2 : Charts of the hisory of printing in Europe and America
Drawer 33/3 : Broadside: "We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals..." from 'The Outermost
House' by Henry Benson, 1977
Drawer 33/5 : "Out of the cradle endlessly rocking" by Walt Whitman; and "Powell's annual schanppsguzzle"
drawer 34, Folder 3-6, 8-10
Oversize broadsides, dust jackets and other materials
General
Drawer 34/3: Two broadsides : one commemorating Professor Ada Nisbet's retirement in 1974 from UCLA Library Special Collections;
and the other for a "lecture-demonstration" given by Ricky Jay at the Clark Library on October 31, 1984.
Drawer 34/4: One delicate piece of art: rubbing labeled "A.D. 1625 Sir Arthur Georges wife, sons and daughters. Chelsea Old
Church, London"
Drawer 34/5: Blank certificate from the La Canada Valley Chamber of Commerce
Drawer 34/6: "A Unique Fifteenth-Century Hand-Colored Woodcut" - a reproduction of "Man of Sorrows" paired with short essay
Drawer 34/8: Three booklets of advertisements: two of which are copies of "America's Fifth Freedom is Free Enterprise" (ads
sponsored by the Union Oil Company of California); the third contains ads from the agency Foote, Cone, & Belding.
Drawer 34/9: Three prints of "Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Cal." (landscapes)
Drawer 34/10: Two sheets of dust jackets of "Death Valley and the Creek Called Furnace" by Edwin Corle with photos by Ansel
Adams and "I Love to Cook Book" by Ruth Conrad Bateman
A-Z Ephemera Subseries V_2_
Catalogues Subseries V_3_
Box 183
Herman Abromson
Contents
Catalogue no. 8, 10
Box 183
Alta California Bookstore
Contents
Catalogue no. 48 (cover only), 62, 77
Box 183
Argonaut Book Shop
Contents
Catalogue no. 83, 100
Box 183
Pierre Beres
Contents
Catalogue no. 84 (two copies)
Box 183
Bertram Rota
Contents
Catalogue no. 146, 146A, 165, 249
Box 183
Blackwell's
Contents
Catalogue no. 779, 825
Box 183
The Bookpress
Contents
Catalogue no. 5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 16, 19-21, 28-32, 34, 45
Box 206, Folder 16, Box 183
Thomas G. Boss
Contents
Catalogue no. 7, 11, 13, 15, 17
Box 183
Monk Bretton Books
Contents
Catalogue no. 1, Feb. 1982 book list
Box 183
Bromer Booksellers (Ann and David Bromer)
Contents
Catalogue no. 21, 24, 28, 30, 33-35, 39, 41, 44, 57, 61, 63, 64
Box 141, Folder 32, Box 183
Chiswick Book Shop
Contents
Catalogue no. 75, 77, 89, list no. 49
Box 206, Folder 32, Box 183
W V Dailey Antiquarian Books
Contents
Catalogue no. 1, 16, 36, 39, 62.
Box 183, Box 206, Folder 42
Dawson's Book Shop
Contents
Catalogue no. 91, 229, 249, 259, 266, 313, 320, 322, 328, 330, 359, 369, 384, 395, 403, 414, 419, 420, 427, 428 (2 copies),
432-435, 439, 440, 448, 458, 461, 462, 465, 467, 470, 473, 485, 488, 492, 495, 501, 503, 504, 514, 515, 517, 521, 525, 527,
528, 530, and 5 unnumbered book lists.
Box 206, Folder 33
Dreyfus-Valette Thomas-Scheler Librairies
Box 184
Philip C. Duschnes
Contents
Catalogue no. 127, 141, 143, 146, 148, 192
Box 184
Glenn Books
Contents
Catalogue no. 1, 3
Box 184
E.P. Goldschmidt Co.
Contents
Catalogue no. 122, 126
Box 184
Marian L. Gore
Contents
Catalogue years 1968, 1973
Box 184
Timothy Hawley Books
Contents
Catalogue no. 78, 125
Box 184
W. Heffer Sons Limited
Contents
Catalogue no. 28, 869
Box 184
Joshua Heller Rare Books, Inc.
Contents
Catalogue no. 2-5 (two copies of no. 2, list no. 1
Box 184
Keith Hogg
Contents
Catalogue no. 85, 104, 107, 113, 123, 125, 127, 145
Box 184
Interlibrum Vaduz
Contents
Catalogue no. 254, 261-262
Box 184
John H. Jenkins
Contents
Catalogue no. 100, 110, 115, 125
Box 184
Kenneth Karmiole
Contents
6 unnumbered catalogues, list no. 180
Box 184, Box 206, Folder 41
H.P. Kraus
Contents
Catalogue no. 60, 89, 91, 93, 175, 178, 180, 192
Box 185
Librairie Alexandre Loewy
Contents
Catalogue no. 62, 64, 69, 78-84, 86-89
Box 206, Folder 30, Box 185
Librairie L' Exemplaire (Catherine Schmitt)
Contents
4 unnumbered catalogues
Box 206, Folder 31, Box 185
Librairie Lardanchet
Contents
Catalogue years 1992, 1993, 1994.
Box 185
Adam Mills Rare Books
Contents
Catalogue no. 7, occasional list
Box 185
Edward D. Nudelman
Contents
Catalogue no. 7, 15
Box 186
Oak Knoll Books
Contents
21, 29-35, 37-41, 43, 45-51, 54-56, 58, 59, 61, 62, 64, 67A, 68, 70-73, 75, 78-80, 82, 124-126, 128, 129, 131, 132, 134, 136,
138, 139, 141, 143-146, 159, lists no. M522, M523, 1 unnumbered list, 1 index of Alida Roochvarg Collection, 1 newsletter.
Box 185
David L. O'Neal
Contents
Catalogue no. 49, 58, 65, list no. 47
Box 185
William Reese Company
Contents
Catalogue no. 42, 92
Box 185, Box 206, Folder 43
J.E. Reynolds
Contents
Catalogue no. 78, 141 (five copies), 142, 144 (two copies – one with markings), 145, 152
Catalogue no. 144
4 copies of catalogue no. 144 were bequeathed. 1 copy remains in the archive, 1 copy was cataloged in Ritchie's press collection,
2 copies were deaccessioned.
Box 185
Rulon-Miller Books
Contents
Catalogue no. 70, list no. 18
Box 185
William H. Schab
Contents
Catalogue no. 27, 34
Box 185
Serendipity Books
Contents
Catalogue no. 40, 42
Box 185
Dorothy Sloan Rare Books
Contents
Catalogue no. 2 (part I), 2 (part II), 7
Box 185
W. Thomas Taylor
Contents
Catalogue no. 26, 31, 38, 40, 41, 42, 49, 50, 55, 57
Box 185
Jeffrey Thomas
Contents
Catalogue no. 1, 2
Box 187
The Veatchs
Contents
Catalogue no. 12, 15
Box 208, Folder 3
Jeff Weber Rare Books
Contents
Catalogue no. 66
Box 187
Joseph F. Weiler
Contents
Catalogue no. 1 (two copies)
Box 187
Winter Farm Books
Contents
Catalogue no. 4 (two copies)
Box 187
William P. Wreden
Contents
Catalogue no. 58, 62, 67
Box 187
Zeitlin Ver Brugge
Contents
Catalogue no. 226, 231, 232, 248, 257, 259
Box 187, Box 206, Folder 47, Box 121, Folder 3, Box 120, Folder 10A-10B, Box 4, Folder 1
Various Booksellers' Catalogues
Contents
Anacopa Books (no. 35), Orrin Anderson Books (no. 4), Tony Appleton Bookseller (no. 30), Birrell & Garnett's Newspaper Catalogue
(no. 44), Brick Row Book Shop (1991), Peggy Christian (no. 6), Cornwall House Books (no. 1), Current Company (no. 67), Dolphin
Book Shop (no. 4), Ex Libris (1981-1982?), Fischler Rare Books List (no. 5), Richard Flamer (no. 1515), Flühmann Schöne Bücher
Rare Books (no. 4), Colin and Charlotte Franklin (no. 4), Friends of the Bancroft Library (1987), Gilhofer & Ranschburg (no.
96), V.A Heck (no. 58), Heritage Book Shop (no. 184), Joseph the Provider Books (no. 21), George W. Leistner Library Sale
170 (January 11, 1981), W. David Laird (no. 259), Librairie Paul Jammes (no. 262), Maggs Bros (no. 892), David Magee (no.
43), Marlborough Rare Books (List 15), Linda K. Montemaggi (no. 1), Jeremy Norman & co. (no. 3), J.A. Penza (no. 2), Pageant
Book & Print Shop (unnumbered), Robert Perata Books (no. 19), Colin Richardson (no. 91), Chas J. Sawyer (no. 134), Sotheby,
Wilkinson, & Hodge (1923), Nicholas T. Smith (unnumbered), A. Sokol Books (no. 21), Patrick et Elisabeth Sourget (no. 9),
Ader Tajan (April 25, 1994), Turtle Island Booksellers (no. 3), Christian F. Verbeke (no. 52), Jeff Weber (no. 17), Jeff Weber
and Charles A. Goldsmind (no. 6/10), Weiss & co. (no. 6), Alan Wofsy Fine Arts (no. 1), Peter Wood (no. 9), Charles Yale (no.
16)
Box 187, Box 207, Folder 37
Various Booksellers' Lists
Contents
AIGA Book Auction Dinner (1942), D.C Churchman (1976), Museum Books (undated), Bernard Quartich (1935)
Box 190, Folder 42
Preliminary Listing of Private Press Proprietors in the United States and Their Presses (Arthur Goldsmith Jr.)
Box 190, Folder 42
A Catalog of the Exhibition of Selected Private Presses in the United States (Ohio State University Libraries)
Box 208, Folder 42
Book catalogues for various presses
Box 159, Folder 8
New York Central Supply Co: Printmaking Supplies catalog
Box 208, Folder 37, Box 28, Folder 7
Assorted exhibition catalogues
Box 191, Folder 1
Exhibition catalogues 1940-1959
1940-1959
Box 191, Folder 2
Exhibition catalogues 1960-1965
1960-1965
Box 191, Folder 3
Exhibition catalogues 1966-1995
1966-1995
Box 191, Folder 4
Exhibition catalogues (undated)
Box 154, Folder 11
American Book Collector
1961
Box 209, Folder 7
American Artist
1941
Contents
P. 21 Paul Landacre article on wood engraving and printing.
Box 141, Folder 8
Das Plakat, February 1921
Box 147, Folder 4
Gentry, Orange County
1983
Box 201, Folder 1
Letter Perfect (Crowell-Collier Publishing Company)
Box 148, Folder 5E.
Quick, Publisher's Weekly, Occidental Alumnus
Box 137, Folder 21, Box 208, Folder 45
Box 154, Folder 10
Western Printer and Lithographer
Contents
August 1948 and September 1947
Box 37, Folder 7
Print: A Quarterly Journal of Graphic Arts
Box 120, Folder 8A-8B, Box 141, Folder 30, Box 182, Folder 1-23, Box 208, Folder 46-48, Box 121, Folder 2A-2C, Box 154, Folder 18, Box 148, Folder 5C
Assorted newspaper clippings
Contents
Box 182, Folder 1: 1926; Folder 2-3: 1943-44 (secret weapons); Folder 4: 1948; Folder 5: 1950; Folder 6-12: 1952-1959; Folder
13: 1962, 1964, 1969; Folder 14: 1973; Folder 15: 1980-1986; Folder 16-17: 1991-1992; Folder 18-19: 1994-1995; Folder 20:
Various dates - "ideas"; Folder 21-22: Various dates - Ritchie biographical (as found); Folder 23: Undated
Box 154, Folder 13, Box 191, Folder 40
Box 126/13, Folder 4
California presses clippings
Box 208, Folder 38, Box 191, Folder 43-44
Box 136, Folder 1
Association Typographique Internationale
Box 136, Folder 2
Humanities Research Center notes
Box 136, Folder 5
Clark Library newsletters
Box 136, Folder 7
The Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California
Box 136, Folder 8A-8D
The American Printing History Association
Box 136, Folder 9
UCI, Friends of the Library
Box 136, Folder 10A-10D, Box 136, Folder 13
American Institute of Graphic Arts
Box 136, Folder 11
Occidental College Library Patrons
Box 136, Folder 14A-14B
Friends of the Huntington Library
Box 136, Folder 15
California State Library Foundation Bulletin
Box 136, Folder 17
Library of Congress Information bulletin
Box 137, Folder 1
Alliance for Contemporary Book Arts
Box 137, Folder 2
American Antiquarian Society
Box 207, Folder 46
Biblio-Cal Notes (Southern California Local History Council)
Box 137, Folder 4
Dawson's Book Shop catalogs
Box 137, Folder 5
Decorative Arts Study Center
Box 137, Folder 6
The Flapping Sail, 1928-1929
Box 37, Folder 4
Foot, Cone, and Belding Newsletter
Box 137, Folder 7
The Friend, 1849 (Honolulu)
Box 137, Folder 12A-12B
Printing Historical Society
Box 137, Folder 14
The San Juan Capistrano Historical Society
Box 137, Folder 16
Southern Californian newsletter
Box 137, Folder 18
Tenth Annual Conference,
Printing Without Type, 1985
Box 137, Folder 23
Association Internationale de Bibliophilie
Box 137, Folder 25
Los Angeles Center of P.E.N. International (roster)
Box 137, Folder 28
The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco (roster)
Box 137, Folder 29
Sewanee Class of 1928 (roster)
Box 137, Folder 30
The Society of Colonial Wars (roster)
Box 137, Folder 31
Southern California Local History Council (roster)
Box 10, Folder 2, Box 215, Folder 8, Box 201, Folder 3
Box 179, Folder 6
Thomas Hart Benson research materials
Conferences Symposiums Subseries V_5_
Box 8, Folder 10
Bruce Rogers Centennial Conference
Binding Companies Subseries V_6_
Box 114, Folder 4A-4C
The Doves Bindery
Contents
correspondence, photographs, ephemera
Box 118, Folder 8
Sebco Stauffer Edition Binding Co.
Booklets and Keepsakes Subseries V_7_
Box 31, Folder 8, Box 216, Folder 2
George Ellery Hale keepsake
Box 148, Folder 1A-1C
Assorted booklets and keepsakes
Contents
Some Facts Concerning the Invention of Printing, 1939 (Douglas McMurtrie, 2 copies);
Five Hundred Years of the Printed Book, 1940;
Great Books in Great Editions, 1940;
The Beginning of Printing in America, To Honor Gutenberg and Bookmaking, 1940,
The Story of the Recorded Word, 26 Lead Soldiers--A Salute to Printers, 1939, by Evelyn Little
A Brochure in Honor of Gutenberg, The First Printers and their Books, 1940;
150 Years of Printing in English America, 1940,
A Tribute to Printing, 1940;
500 Years of Printing, 1940; catalog,
Great Books in Great Editions, 1940.
One Fifty-Five Sansome, 1955;
From the Pen of Benjamin Franklin, Reading Between, Benefit Auction, Why Steinbeck Wrote The Grapes of Wrath, 1940;
Eight Lyrics by William Shakespeare, The Poet of the Month
Box 138, Folder 2A-2B
Booklets: Edward Lawrence Estelle Doheny
Contents
Glass Paperweights (1977),
A Guide to St. John's Seminary (1966) by Francis J. Weber,
The Estelle Doheny Collection of California
Box 131, Folder 18
Booklets:
Bridge, Publisher's Weekly)
Box 138, Folder 9
Booklet:
Four Letters from William Morris--Arion Press
Box 141, Folder 54
Booklet: Bronson Vitamins
Box 145, Folder 37
In Memory of Melba Berry Bennett / Charles Howard Wade Memorial keepsake
Bookplates Book Covers Subseries V_8_
Box 34
Assorted Book covers (all folded, oversized)
Box 145, Folder 11, Box 41
Assorted bookplates
Contents
Includes Eric Gill collection at Clark Library; William Andrews Clark, Jr. (leather, gold foil); Robert D. Farquhar; Cora
Edgerton Sanders; UCLA; Anne and Morris Slemons; Harmsworth Theological Collection; Olive Percival Collection of Children's
Books; Jake Zeitlin.
Box 145, Folder 8
Clare Ryan Talbot bookplate
Box 145, Folder 5
Florence and Paul Newell bookplate
Box 145, Folder 10
Jean Jake Zeitlin bookplate
Box 145, Folder 1
Leura Dorothy Bevis bookplate
Box 145, Folder 6
Occidental College bookplate
Box 145, Folder 7, Box 26, Folder 1-4
Ward Ritchie bookplates
Contents
Plates #1-90, wood block of Lawrence Clark Powell bookplate and duplicates, plate #23: Keene and Beatrice Thompson.
Box 145, Folder 9
Wilfred Terrell bookplate
Box 145, Folder 2
William W. Clary bookplate
Paper Companies Samples Subseries V_9_
Box 192, Folder 18
Atlantic Enterprises Velke Losiny Mill paper samples
Box 210, Folder 10
Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead paper samples
Box 192, Folder 22
Champion International "Color Ensemble" paper guide
Eastern Corporation, Specimen Sheets
Box 123/10, Folder 3L.
The Line of Least Resistance
Box 123/10, Folder 3M.
Types Cast by Binny and Ronaldson
Box 123/10, Folder 5
Portfolio and letterheads designed by Kurt Volk
Box 147, Folder 3
Gilbert Paper Co.,
The Gilcrafter
1956
Box 206, Folder 12
Hammermill Paper Company
Contents
Very Promptly Yours book advertisement.
Box 210, Folder 9, Box 192, Folder 20
Steven-Nelson Paper Corporation samples
Box 210, Folder 7
Tisbury, Salisbury, and Wiltshire
Box 154, Folder 9
Paper samples from 1941-1943
Box 118, Folder 7, Box 192, Folder 21
Box 192, Folder 22
Cloth binder of assorted paper samples
Box 209, Folder 56
Samples of 17th century paper
Box 213, Folder 2
Samples of patterned paper
Box 218, Folder 14
Specimen sheets : Albion Press (1956) and Weiss type on Eastern Corporation's Atlantic Bond paper
Box 118, Folder 4
Printers and Type Foundries Subseries V_10
Box 147, Folder 9
Amsterdam Continental Types, Inc.
Box 206, Folder 15, Box 141, Folder 24, Box 208, Folder 32, Box 159, Folder 1-2
Harold Berliner's Typefoundry
Box 208, Folder 22, Box 208, Folder 31
Lanston Monotype Company
Contents
An Alphabet for Printers Christmas keepsake
Box 147, Folder 8
Mergenthaler Linotype GmbH
Box 142, Folder 4
The Meriden Gravure Company
Box 119, Folder 7A-7B
Printers--magazine articles and correspondence
Prospectuses Subseries V_11_
Box 145, Folder 42
Adventures with Authors
1978
Box 145, Folder 20A.
Al Bello Secso, 1947 (Zamorano Club)
Box 158
Al Bello Secso, 1947, proof
Box 145, Folder 20B.
Al Bello Secso, 1953 (Printed by Anderson, Simon, Ritchie for Zamorano Club) (proofs, prospectus, correspondence)
Box 145, Folder 29
Alchemy of Books, The (Lawrence Clark Powell)
Box 145, Folder 49
An Artist Records the California Missions, (Henry Chapman Ford)
1989
Box 141, Folder 26
Armory Center for the Arts (broadside)
1991
Box 145, Folder 21
Bibles of the Estelle Doheny Collection, 1952
Box 158
Book Club of California
1971
Contents
Printed for
Dr. Johnson and Noah Webster.
Box 141, Folder 25
Book of Gaelic Arts for Una's Melodeon (Robinson and Una Jeffers)
1989
Box 141, Folder 36
Books and Shekels (The Guild Santa Barbara)
Box 141, Folder 12
Campaigns in the West
1949
Box 141, Folder 27
Casablanca, 1994 (Julius J. Epstein)
Box 141, Folder 49
The Challenge of Cancer (Lester Grant) (oversized)
Box 141, Folder 10
Child's Garden of Verses, A (Robert Louis Stevenson)
1935
Box 145, Folder 18
Great American Historical Documents, Manuscripts, and Books
1949
Box 158
Gutenberg and the Catholicon of 1460
Box 141, Folder 40
If Morning Ever Comes (Ann Taylor) (paste-up)
Box 145, Folder 30
Islands of Books (Lawrence Clark Powell)
Contents
Prospectus and cover.
Box 145, Folder 25
Jottings in Southern California History, 1957 (Marco Newmark) (prospectus)
Box 141, Folder 15
Letters and Notes, 1953 (Elinor Castle Nef)
Box 211, Folder 11
Le Diable Boiteux (printed by Theo Schmied)
Box 138, Folder 3
Mirror of the Parisian Bibliophile, The (Alfred Bonnardot)
Box 141, Folder 18
Most Agreeable Vice, The(Aldous Huxley)
Box 145, Folder 51B.
Mystique of Printing, The / Irrespressible Jane(flyer)
1984
Box 211, Folder 7
A Note on the Latin Preface to Eric Gill's Introduction to his Engravings, 1929 (Watler Shewring)
Box 141, Folder 22
Redwood and Lumbering in California Forests (Book Club of California prospectus)
1983
Box 141, Folder 23
Robert Frost and his Printers, 1985 (Joseph Blumenthal)
Box 141, Folder 16
Scriptorus Concours d'Eleclampce, A / Mapping the American West, (Carl I. Wheat)
1956
Box 138, Folder 6
Selected Essays on Books Printing (A.F. Johnson)
1969
Box 154, Folder 16
Southern California's Spanish Heritage, an Anthology, 1992 (Historical Society of Southern CA)
Box 141, Folder 50
Three Gentlemen, 1986 (Tom Filer)
Box 141, Folder 57
Triumph of the Postmodern (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
Box 141, Folder 35
W. Thomas Taylor (prospectuses)
The First English binding and marbling manuals et le premier manuel de reliure imprime separement en français, Twelve Bindings,
The Tragedie of King Lear
Box 145, Folder 19
West Art, Literature and Poetry, The Book Catalog (prospectus)
1951-1952
Box 145, Folder 12
Ward Ritchie (prospectuses printed by)
One Hundred Books on Hollywood and the Movies, Jeffers 1977; The Tussie Mussie, Primavera Books, Azle and the Attic Room,
California's Best Wines, Apaches and Longhorns, The Generous Miser, Publications of Anderson & Ritchie: The Ward Ritchie Press
Box 145, Folder 27
William Morris and His "Praise of Wine" (1958)
Box 138, Folder 4
Zapata (John Steinbeck)
1991
Box 33, Folder 5, Box 4, Folder 7, Box 35, Folder 8, Box 141, Folder 6
Prospectuses (date unknown)
Box 33, Folder 4
Prospectuses (including oversized)
Box 141, Folder 1-3, Box 35, Folder 3-7
Prospectuses, 1930-1970
1930-1970
Box 141, Folder 4-5
Prospectuses from the 1980-1990
Box 216, Folder 3-4, 8, 10-11, Box 217, Folder 13, drawer 33, Folder 4
Oversized prospectuses
General
Box 216/3: Seager, Mrs. S. F. - Prospectus for 2 Broadside Letters and 1 Colophon
Box 216/4 : Prospectus: "Fragment from the lament of Radzill…"
Box 216/8: Prospectuses: "Tickhill Psalter…" (2) - NYPL; "A Genuine Caxton Leaf…" (3 items) - Oxford Univ. Press; "Vita Christi,
Lisbon 1498" - Maggs Bros.; "Early Italian Engraving" by A.M. Hind - Bernard Quartich
Box 216/10 : Prospectuses: "Vincent Van Gogh" and "August Renoir" - B.T. Batsfod, Ltd.; "Sandpaintings of the Navajo Shooting
Chant" - J.J. Augustin, publisher; "Gulliver's Travels" (2) - The Cresset Press, Ltd.; "Oregon & California Drawings, 1841
& 1847" - Book Club of California
Box 216/11 : Prospectuses: St. Coleridge's "The Ancient Mariner"; 'Woodcuts and Wood Engravings" - Rynson Printers; "The Plan
of St. Gall" - UC Berkeley Press
Box 217/13 : "illustrations of the Book of Job" by William Blake, 1935; "Engraved in Wood" - Rampant Lion Press; "The Book
of Kells" Switzerland
Drawer 33/4 : Prospectus for Cheshire House : list of books for sale [1932?]
Box 2, Folder 7, Box 7, Folder 7
Box 4, Folder 6, Box 154, Folder 19, Box 8, Folder 14, Box 212, Folder 6, Box 119, Folder 5
Box 37, Folder 5
Miscellaneous publications
Box 190, Folder 51
Arnold Bank Lettering Portfolio
Contents
Includes note from Dawson's Book Shop.
Box 190, Folder 73
Ritchie handwritten note on Frank Wiggins Trade School question sheet
Box 190, Folder 75
Lawrence S. Thompson lectures (Ts)
Box 190, Folder 76
Lawrence S. Thompson keepsakes
Box 179, Folder 14
Examples of early California printing (red cloth box)
Box 192, Folder 25
Style and editing manuals
Box 198
Marengo Literary Reader. Newspaper of the Marengo Avenue School, edited by Ward Ritchie and Harold Kelley: numbers 1-7 (#2 in photofacsimile), Oct.
7 through Dec. 2, 1919.
Box 198
Green glass sign painted with "Kelmscott/ William Morris" and with "key to the gables" attached.
Box 205
Rittenhouse Company Christmas gold, frankincense, and myrhh keepsake
Box 208, Folder 4
Sears Roebuck and Co. photos of printing plant
Box 206, Folder 13
Blank copy of "Snakes of Hawaii" inscribed by V. Ralph Knight, Jr.
Box 207, Folder 23
Columbia Times Carrier's Address 1861 reproduction (folded)
Box 207, Folder 30
Unbound pages of unidentifed work, probably printed by Ritchie
Box 207, Folder 25
Various detached title pages and book covers
Box 208, Folder 39
Western Wilderness calendar
1983
Box 205
Woodblock with "Hickory Farms" printed in blue
Box 209, Folder 19
Ten dollar bill drawings on blue paper
Box 209, Folder 26
Living American Art Portfolios print
1938
Box 211, Folder 8
Printed envelopes from William Morris Co. Pynson Printers
Box 211, Folder 17
Floral text border and photograph of engraved block
Box 213, Folder 8
Chinese block prints (4 leaves)
Edwin Carpenter Acquisition Series VII_
Contents
This series consists of records gifted to the Clark Library by Edwin Carpenter in 1996. They are arranged in orignal order
as received by Mr. Carpenter.
Box 151, Folder 1A-1E
A Concise Account of Ward Ritchie, His Printing, and His Books (1984)
Box 151, Folder 1F-1H
Davies/Ritchie--December 1983
Contents
Revision of preface, illustrations, related papers.
Box 151, Folder 2
The Pre-Printing Period (includes 2 letters from Ritchie to David Davies)
Box 151, Folder 3
Southern California Printing from the Personal Library of Ward Ritchie, 1974 (Catalog 141)
Box 151, Folder 4
A Ward Ritchie Bibliography 1961-1976 (Paula S. Hill)
Box 151, Folder 5
Ward Ritchie's 75th Birthday Salute, 1980
Box 151, Folder 6
Ward Ritchie's 80th birthday invitations
Box 151, Folder 7
Rounce and Coffin Club Honoring Ward Ritchie--June 1961
Box 151, Folder 8
A Selective Checklist of Books printed by the Ward Ritchie Press
Box 151, Folder 9
Introduction in Potlatch Forests Paper Work Book, No. 2
Box 151, Folder 10
Impromptu, 1963 ("Robinson Jeffers" by Ritchie)
Box 151, Folder 11
Hoja Volante, 1976 ("Some Recollections of Beatrice Warde")
Box 151, Folder 12
Hoja Volante, 1979 ("University of California Press")
Box 151, Folder 13
Westways ("Rare Edition" by Ritchie)
Box 151, Folder 14
Biblio-Cal Notes, Vol. 3, No. 1 ("Books and Printing" by Ritchie)
Box 151, Folder 15
Biblio-Cal Notes, Vol 13, No. 1 ("Fifty Year Friendship" by Ritchie)
Box 151, Folder 16
AB Bookman's Weekly ("Virginia City's Memorable Publishing Venture")
Box 151, Folder 17
François Louis Schmied, Artist, Engraver Printer, 1976, by Ritchie
Box 151, Folder 19
Homage to Teachers of Printing, 1978
Box 151, Folder 20
I Remember Robinson Jeffers
Box 151, Folder 21
A Selection of American Press Books 1968-1978: Printer's Choice (W. Thomas Taylor)
Box 151, Folder 24
Ward Ritchie correspondence
Box 151, Folder 25
Review of Mercator-Hondius World Atlas
Box 151, Folder 26
Offprint from
A Bibliophile's Los Angeles, 1985
Box 151, Folder 27
Printing Jeffers' First Book and Starting the Ward Ritchie Press
Box 151, Folder 28
Ward Ritchie: 76 (about Laguna Verde)
Box 151, Folder 29
Ward Ritchie's Account of the First Year of the Ward Ritchie Press
Box 151, Folder 31
Ward Ritchie Press after Ward sold it
Box 151, Folder 33-41
Ephemera
1933-1942
Contents
1933: Cal Tech; 1934:
Spring List of Fifty Beautifully Printed Books from the Fine Presses of the World; Guide to the Botanical Gardens of the Henry
Huntington Library, 1935-1936 Information for the Friends of the Occidental College; Jawlensky Retrospective Exhibition; Ex
Libris Estelle Doheny; The Historical Society of Southern California; The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation;
William Blake 1757-1827; An Itinerant House
; 1937:
1936-1937 Information for the Friends of Occidental College; To the Friends of Occidental College; The Constitution of the
United States; Science and the New World
; 1938:
Occidental College Forty Sixth Annual Commencement; Forty Fifty Annual Commencement; The Grabhorn Press: A Catalog of Imprints
in the Collection of Henry Wagner; Forgotten Characters of Old San Francisco; The Most Agreeable Vice
(Aldous Huxley);
List of Publications of the Ward Ritchie Press; Mexico in the Sixteenth Century; 1940:
WR Press Ornaments; Cattle, Horses, and Men of the Western Range prospectus; Frances and Robert Schad Christmas card;
Design Today (Robert Baermann);
DH Lawrence and His Critics: A Chronological Excursion in Bio Bibliography; A Letter from the President to the Friends of
the Huntington Library; The Dove Quarterly Magazine
; 1939:
Beyond the Swarm (Aldous Huxley); Huntington Library ephemera); 1941:
Los Angeles: Preface to a Master Plan; Have Patience Little Saint, prospectus;
Publications of the Ward Ritchie Press; Songs (William Blake);
Paintings Drawings (Dillwyn Parrish);
A 1941 Letter from the President to the Friends of the Huntington Library; The Dove Quarterly Magazine, Autumn 1941; 1942 (
The Gutenberg Address; Here's How We Work Together at the May Company; Russell M. Story; Lines for the Canonization of Pedro
Domecq and other Poems; The Dove,
October 1942;
The Dove, June 1942;
Sample from Anderson and Ritchie "Occidental Leaflets"; Undated ephemera (
For Hire: Expert Watchmen; A Merry Christmas Supper; Children's Books 1773-1934; The Rough Road to Personal Success by Henry McKee;
Katherine Benepe; New Orleans Groups; Miscellanea 2; The Purposes of the Wine and Food Society; The Francis Bacon Foundation.
Box 151, Folder 43
Correspondence from WR to EHC
Box 151, Folder 44
Xerox of first version of Edelstein checklist; with correspondence
Box 151, Folder 45
Ward Ritchie personal imprints; 1974
Box 151, Folder 46
Book Club Printers 1962-1987
Box 151, Folder 48
A Garland for Ward Ritchie (Tiger Press)
Box 151, Folder 49
The Annual of Bookmaking: The Colophon, 1937
Box 151, Folder 50
Prospectuses (
A Book of Gaelic Arts for Una's Melodeon; Fortsas Bibliohoax).
Box 151, Folder 52
OC Style magazine (October 4; 1987)
Box 151, Folder 53
American Printer: The Magazine for Commercial Printers
Box 151, Folder 54
The Passio Jesu Christi, covers (Albrecht Durer) 1936
Box 151, Folder 55
Trustees of the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery invitations
Box 151, Folder 56
The Book as a Work of Art; An Exhibition of Books and Manuscripts from the Library of Mrs. Edward Doheny (cover)
Items Shelved Separately Series VIII_
Physical Location: These items were shelved by Clark Library staff in 1998 during the processing of the first 182 boxes. While processing boxes
183-213 in 2014, the items could not be located.
Manuscript accounts of the Ward Ritchie Press, including information about the costs of supplies, prices of printing jobs,
overhead expenses, and monthly profits. Written on the blank leaves of a salesman's dummy of Georges Clemenceau's
Grandeur and Misery of Victory.
Binder: description of Ward Ritchie's printing jobs from 1929 to 1940. Includes titles, dates, sizes, types, colors used,
bindings, number of copies, job numbers, designers, publishers, notes, and comments.
Binder: description of Ward Ritchie's printing jobs from 1941 to 1943. Includes titles, dates, sizes, types, colors used,
bindings, number of copies, job numbers, designers, publishers, notes, comments, and student work.
