Guide to Graham Mackintosh papers
Mss 332
Finding aid prepared by Beaudry Allen. Rehoused by Carla Altomare
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California, 93106-9010
Phone: (805) 893-3062
Email: special@library.ucsb.edu; URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/special-collections
2017
Title: Graham Mackintosh papers
Identifier/Call Number: Mss 332
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
1.3 linear feet
(3 document boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1964-2002
Date (bulk): 1964-1985
Abstract: The collection consists of works from White Rabbit Press, Graham Mackintosh, and other small West Coast publishing houses.
Language of Materials: The collection is in English and French.
creator:
Mackintosh, Graham, 1935-2015
Acquisition Information
Graham Mackintosh's works were given to Naomi Greene, retired French professor of UC Santa Barbara, and the collection donated
to Special Research Collections consists of Mackintosh's works compiled by Naomi Greene and Allen Cohen.
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of Item], Graham Mackintosh papers, Mss 332. Department of Special Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library,
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Biographical note
Graham Mackintosh was a printer, illustrator, book designer, and publisher of White Rabbit Press. Mackintosh was born April
1935 in Salt Lake City, Utah. As a child his family relocated to California where Graham attended Lowell High School. Mackintosh
studied at San Francisco School of Arts. In 1951, Mackintosh was part of ROTC and was intended to go to Korea upon graduation
but after high school he attended California School of Fines Arts. During this period he met and married his first wife Kathy
Knight. Mackintosh was drafted into the Army and in the 1960s after discharge returned to the Bay Area and with the GI Bill
was able to attend UC Berkeley. He became increasingly involved in the literary and poetry scene and began a small printing
and publishing shop in Piedmont. Berkeley's Oyez Press partnered with Mackintosh on several prints.
Concurrently, the White Rabbit Press, founded by Joe Dunn in 1957, was known as the printer for the poetry of the Jack Spicer
Circle, the first ten books were printed at the Greyhound Bus offices (the name coming from the rabbit in Greyhound races)
on 7th street in San Francisco. These early books were illustrated by Jess, Robert Duncan, and Kenn Davis. It was the primary
publisher of the work of Jack Spicer, Robin Blaser, and Robert Duncan—the three central figures of the literary movement first
known as the Berkeley Renaissance. Over the years Dunn's printing shop published sixty-three books and ten broadsides. After
a production hiatus, the imprint was revived in 1962 by Graham Mackintosh with Spicer’s
Lament for the Makers, which was published in a small edition and illustrated by Mackintosh.
Mackintosh had also joined Noel Young and Martin's Black Sparrow Press and Mackintosh moved to Santa Barbara to set up shop
with Noel Young. Young also managed other small West Coast publishing houses, but eventually sold his printing shop to Mackintosh.
Throughout the 1970-1980s Mackintosh traveled back and forth between San Francisco and Santa Barbara. Mackintosh remarried
in 1986 to Janet Thormann. Charles Bukowski, Lynn Stark, Jim Jimenez, Joe Babine, Sasha Newborn, Aaron Young Linda Benet,
and Caitlin Mackintosh all worked with Graham in different times and ways. Mackintosh died in 2015.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of books, journals, and booklets published by Mackintosh's White Rabbit Press and other small West
Coast publishing houses. Many of the works have either been designed and printed by Mackintosh himself and White Rabbit Press.
The majority of the works are poetry and some are in french with translations included done by retired UC Santa Barbara French
professor Naomi Greene. Of particular note, the collection includes press-clippings mentioning Mackintosh's activities and
biographical information. The collection is a small respresentation of West Coast publishing and mid-centruy book art.
Arrangement
The collection retains the original order of the creator.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Spicer, Jack
American literature
Printing
Printing--California
Publishers and publishing--United States--California
Santa Barbara (Calif.)
Box 1, Folder 1-2
Press mentions,
1971, 1976, 2002
Box 1, Folder 3
Gerard Haggerty Space Gallery, announcement,
1983 July 2- August 6
Box 1, Folder 4
Backfire, Story for the Screen by Raymond Chandler,
1984
General note
The story was a proposal for a unpublished screenplay by Chandler. The design and print was by Mackintosh and signed by preface
author, Robert B. Parker.
Box 1, Folder 5
Nine Queen Bees, Zero issue,
1970
The Identical Lunch by Philip Corner,
1973
General note
Designed and printed by Mackintosh.
Box 1, Folder 7
Cartes Postales by F.J. Temple,
1964
General note
Printed by Neil Young.
Box 1, Folder 8
"Thus Jack Spicer Refuted Child Psychology," by Jim Herndon,
undated
Winter Ditch and other poems by Barbara Mor,
1982
Coffee House Press, Where Good Books are Brewing, Fall catalog,
1993
Box 1, Folder 12
"The Dead Star," William Burroughs,
NOVA Broadcast Series 5,
1969
Box 1, Folder 13
A Life of Stephen Dedalus by James Liddy,
1969
General note
Printed by White Rabbit Press.
Box 1, Folder 14
A Munster Song of Love and War by James Liddy,
1971
General note
Printed by White Rabbit Press.
Box 1, Folder 15
Billy the Kid, by Jack Spicer,
1969
Box 1, Folder 16
Introduction to Raymond Chandler's Unknown Thriller: The Screenplay of Playback,
1985
Box 1, Folder 17
Fire Station, by Charles Bukowski,
1970
Box 1, Folder 18
Songs Set Two-A Short Count,
1970
Box 1, Folder 19
Portfolio keepsake, James J. Guthrie,
1968
Box 1, Folder 20
The Oval Lady: Six Surreal Stories,
1975
Box 1, Folder 21
Baudelaire's Bar Flowers, by James Liddy, White Rabbit Press,
1975
Box 1, Folder 22
Union Onion, White Rabbit Press,
1970
Box 1, Folder 23
Epitaphery, a Chapterbook of Poems, White Rabbit Press,
1997
Other Descriptive Information
Printed, bound, and designed by Mackintosh.
Box 1, Folder 25
The Blue Train, by Lawrence Clark Powell,
1977
Box 1, Folder 26
On- by Graham Mackintosh,
1976
Box 1, Folder 27
Conversations with Apollinaire, White Rabbit Press,
1972
Box 2, Folder 1
The Collected Books of Jack Spicer,
1975 May
General note
Design and typography by Mackintosh.
Box 2, Folder 2
A Book Concluding with as a Wife has a Cow, by Gertrude Stein,
1973
Box 2, Folder 4
Miss Vietnam NOVA Broadcast, Wolf Vostell,
1968
Box 2, Folder 5
Book of Magazine Verse, by Jack Spicer,
1966
Box 2, Folder 7
Land's End: a Prospectus,
circa 1976
Box 2, Folder 8
Dreams of Orpheus, White Rabbit Press,
1970
Box 2, Folder 9
Soundings, Collections of the University Library,
1973 June
Box 2, Folder 11
The Sanctified Church , by Zora Neale Hurston,
1981
Box 2, Folder 12
The Faulkner Investigation,
1985
Box 2, Folder 13
Oranges and Snowfields: Southern California at the Turn of the Century by Graham Mackintosh,
1977
Box 2, Folder 14
Lives of the French Symbolist Poets , White Rabbit Press,
1967
Box 2, Folder 15
The Great Naropa Poetry Wars,
1980
Box 3, Folder 1
Pepper and Stern Rare Books Catalogue 17,
undated
Box 3, Folder 2
"Spectrum," volume 20, number 1,
1977 Fall
Box 3, Folder 3
On Civilizing the Corporation,
1976
Box 3, Folder 6
100 Rarities of Modern Literature,
undated
Box 3, Folder 7
Modern Mainstays,
1973 June
