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Correspondence Series 1.

Box 1, Folder 1

Photo of Lew & Dorothy Allen, Hillsborough, July 2 1950

Physical Description: 1 item Black and white photo. 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.

Box 1, Folder 1

Photo of Lew and Dorothy Allen, and Margot Archer, Hillsborough, July 1950

Physical Description: 1 item Black and white photo of Lew and Dorothy Allen, and Margot Archer lounging in a yard 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.

Box 1, Folder 1

Letter from L&D Allen to the Archer, July 5 1950

Physical Description: 1 item Letter describes "hay prints." 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.

Box 1, Folder 1

5 "hay prints" 1950

Physical Description: 5 items 5 colored prints of plants and leaves. Some of the prints have the name of the plant on the back, such as sage and bamboo. multiple

Box 1, Folder 2

Postcard from Museum Plantin-Moretus at Antwerpen. Correspondence between L&D Allen to Dr. H. Richard Archer. 1957

Physical Description: 1 item Postcard depicts a black and white image of a plaza surrounded by brick buildings 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.

Box 1, Folder 2

Letter from L&D Allen, December 20 1977

Physical Description: 1 item Allen press heart logo on upper-left corner of letter. "Dear Richard, We just learned of your illness, and are terribly distraught and unhappy..." 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.

Box 1, Folder 2

Letter from Lew Allen, "Dear Archer, something ought to be done about Wichy..." n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item Contain additional annotation: "and we need copy apr 15" 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.

Box 1, Folder 2

Letter from Lew Allen to Richard Archer, May 3 1969

Physical Description: 1 item "Dear Richard, We've nailed down a couple of cots at Hotel Shoreham..." 5 x 8 in.

Box 1, Folder 2

Letter from Lew Allen to Richard Archer, October 27 1970

Physical Description: 1 item Letter contains Allen Press footer. Printing press logo on bottom-right corner of letter. "Dear Richard, From your communications I gather that you haven't had much time for the pool halls..." 8 x 11 in.

Box 1, Folder 3

Handwritten letter addressed to Lewis Allen from Will Chevey. Bottom of letter is a message from Richard Archer. 1953

Physical Description: 1 item Bottom of has a message from Richard Archer to Lewis Allen. Header is "Nine forty-two Alandele Avenue, Los Angeles, California." 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 in.

Box 1, Folder 3

Letter from Lew Allen to Richard Archer, May 30 1970

Physical Description: 1 item Response letter from Richard Archer attached. Letter contains Allen press Footer. Additional annotation: "Will put chapin down for GENESIS. Adrian's Address: 1 Tuscany Alley, S.F. 9A133." 8 x 10 1/2 in.

Box 1, Folder 3

Letter from Richard archer to L&D Allen, August 11 1970

Physical Description: 1 item In Response to the letter from Lew Allen, May 30, 1970 8 1/2 x 11 in.

Box 1, Folder 3

Letter addressed to Lew and Dorothy, 20 May Decoration Day 1969

Physical Description: 1 item 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 in.

Box 1, folder 3

Letter addressed to Lew and Dorothy, July 17 1969

Physical Description: 1 item 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.

Box 1, Folder 3

Original folder with heading, "H. Richard Arthur correspondence with L&D Allen" n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item

Prospectuses Series 2.

Prospectuses: A-B

Box 1, folder 5

Aeschylus. The Oresteian Trilogy, Volume 1 - Agamemnon. 1982

Physical Description: 1 item 7 x 10 in.

Box 1, Folder 5

Aeschylus. The Oresteian Triology, Comprising the Libation Bearers and the Furies. 1982

Physical Description: 1 item 7 x 10 in.

Box 2, Folder 1

The Allen Press Bibliography 1981

Physical Description: 1 item 6 3/4 x 14 3/4"

Box 1, folder 5

Allen Press Bibliography: A facsimile. Book Club of California. 1985

Physical Description: 1 item With a notice inside. 6 1/2 x 9 in.

Box 1, folder 5

Atherton, Gertrude. The Splendid Idle Forties. 1960

Physical Description: 1 item 6 1/4 x 9 3/4 in.

Box 2, Folder 1

All for love: Antony - Cleopatra 1976

Physical Description: 1 item 6 1/4 x 15"

Box 2, Folder 1

Antigone: A Tragedy of Sophocles 1978

Physical Description: 1 item 6 3/4 x 14 3/4"

Box 2, Folder 1

The Bacchae by Euripides n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item 7 1/2 x 15 3/4"

Box 1, Folder 5

Balzac, Honore de. The Hidden Treasures, or The Advencture of Maitre Cornelius. 1953

Physical Description: 1 item 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.

Prospectuses: C

Box 1, Folder 6

Clemens, Samuel. Mark Twain: San Francisco Correspondent. Book Club of California. 1957

Physical Description: 1 item In an envelope addressed to "Mr. Ward Ritchie" from The Book Club of California. Envelope footer: "The Book Club Of California Announces Its Spring Publication." With order reply card inside prospectus. 8 x 11 1/4 in.

Box 1, Folder 6

Clemens, Samuel. Roughing it in California. 1953

Physical Description: 1 item Third copy. Other 2 copies housed in envelopes. 6 3/4 x 10 in.

Box 1, Folder 6

Clemens, Samuel. Roughing it in California. (in an envelope addressed to "Mr. H. Richard Archer") 1953

Physical Description: 1 item In an envelope addressed to "Mr. H. Richard Archer" from the L-D Allen Press 6 3/4 x 10 in.

Box 1, Folder 6

Clemens, Samuel. Roughing it in California. (in an envelope addressed to "Mr.H. Richard Archer, curator of Spl. Coll.") 1953

Physical Description: 1 item In an envelope addressed to "Mr.H. Richard Archer, curator of Spl. Coll." from L-D Allen Press. With reply order card. 6 3/4 x 10 in.

Box 1, Folder 6

Crucial Essay on Cowan's 1914 Bibliography of the History of California and the West. Book Club of California. 1993

Physical Description: 1 item 8 x 10 1/2 in.

Prospectuses: E-H

Box 1, Folder 7

Essays of Montaigne 1948

Physical Description: 1 item With reply card and envelope to Dawson's Book Shop 6 1/4 x 9 3/4 in.

Box 2, Folder 1

From a Good-Humoured Christmas Chapter n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item Broadside 11 x 14"

Box 2, Folder 1

Four Fictions 1973

Physical Description: 1 item 6 1/2 x 15 1/2"

Box 1, Folder 7

Harte, Bret. A millionaire of rough-and-ready 1955

Physical Description: 1 item In an envelope addressed to "The Library, UCLA." With a reply card to L-D Allen Press. 5 1/4 x 4 in.

Box 1, Folder 7

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Rappaccini's Daughter. 1991

Physical Description: 1 item 6 3/4 x 10 in.

Box 1, Folder 7

Herodotus. Egypt: fifth century B.C. 1989

Physical Description: 1 item 7 x 10 1/4 in.

Prospectuses: L-M

Box 1, Folder 8

Lewis, Oscar. On Reaching Seventy. 1982

Physical Description: 1 item 8 1/4 x 13 in.

Box 1, folder 8

Lewis, Oscar. On Reaching Seventy. 1982

Physical Description: 1 item 8 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.

Box 1, Folder 8

Lewis, Oscar. On Reaching Seventy. (with marking) 1982

Physical Description: 1 item Yellow mark at bottom of page. 8 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.

Box 2, Folder 1

A Legend of India: The Transposed Heads 1977

Physical Description: 1 item 6 1/4 x 14 3/4"

Box 2, Folder 1

The Mirrour of the World 1964

Physical Description: 1 item 7 3/4 x 15 3/4"

Prospectuses: O-R

Box 1, Folder 9

On the ambitious projects of Russia (copy to Clark Library) 1955

Physical Description: 1 item (copy) In an envelope addressed to "William Andrews Clark Memorial Library" from The Book Club of California. 8 x 11 1/4 in.

Box 1, Folder 9

On the ambitious projects of Russia (copy to Ward Ritchie) 1955

Physical Description: 1 item In an envelope addressed to "Mr. Ward Ritchie" from The Book Club of California. With order reply card. 6 1/2 x 10 in.

Box 1, Folder 9

Private Journal of Stendhal n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item Another copy. 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.

Box 1, Folder 9

Private Journals of Stendhal (with reply cards) 1954

Physical Description: 2 item 2 copies in an envelope addressed to "William Andrews Clark Library." Both copies have a reply card.

Box 1, Folder 9

Rich, Adrienne. Knight. 1957

Physical Description: 1 item 6 1/2 x 10 in.

Box 2, Folder 1

Persian Stories from the Arabian Nights 1980

Physical Description: 1 item 7 x 15"

Box 2, folder 1

Printing with the handpress: announcing a definitive manual by Lewis M. Allen 1969

Physical Description: 1 item 7 1/4 x 15 1/2"

Box 2, Folder 1

Quartet: Four Stories 1975

Physical Description: 1 item 6 1/2 x 15"

Prospectuses: S

Box 1, Folder 10

Shakespeare, William. Romeo, Juliet: A Tragedy. 1988

Physical Description: 1 item 7 x 10 in.

Box 1, Folder 10

Steinbeck, John. Flight. 1984

Physical Description: 1 item With reader newsletter from Carolyn and James Robertson (the publishers), an order card to Yolla Bolly Press, and order envelope addressed to Yolla Bolly Press 10 x 12 in.

Box 1, Folder 10

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Across the Plains. (with an annotation) 1950

Physical Description: 1 item annotation "HRA" at upper-left corner on front page. 6 1/4 x 9 3/4 in.

Box 1, folder 10

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Across the Plains. (with reply postcard) 1950

Physical Description: 1 item With reply postcard to L-D Allen Press 6 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.

Box 1, Folder 10

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Across the Plains. (with 2 reply cards) 1950

Physical Description: 1 item With a reply card to L-D Allen Press and another reply card to Chiswick Book Shop 6 1/4 x 9 3/4 in.

Prospectuses: T-Y

Box 1, Folder 11

The noble knight paris & the fair vienne 1956

Physical Description: 1 item In an envelope addressed to "William Andrews Clark Memorial Library" from The Allen Press 7 1/2 x 11 in.

Box 1, Folder 11

Tolstoy, Leo. What men live by. n. d.

Physical Description: 1 item 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.

Box 1, Folder 11

Tolstoy, Leo. What men live by. (with reply cards) n.d.

Physical Description: 2 item 2 copies with reply cards. 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.

Box 2, Folder 1

Youth n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item Broadside 10 1/2 x 14"

Book Club of California Series 3.

Box 1, Folder 12

John Bidwell, Josiah Royce: A letter from Mary Clement Leavitt to Bidwell on behalf of Royce 1943

Physical Description: 1 item 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.

Box 1, Folder 12

The L-D Allen Press. A Portfolio of Book Club Printers: 1912-1962. 1962

Physical Description: 1 item 8 1/4 x 10 in.

Roxburghe Club of San Francisco Series 4.

Box 1, Folder 13

Good for one admission to the Roxburghe Club Meeting, December 8 1947

Physical Description: 1 item 6 1/2 x 10 in.

Box 1, Folder 13

Judge Louis E. Goodman on the foibles and whimsies of book collectors, May 15. 1956

Physical Description: 1 item Allen press heart logo on back. 7 x 10 in.

Box 1, Folder 13

October 3. Lawrence Clark Powell Bibliophile & Bibiliomaniac. 2 copies. 1947

Physical Description: 2 item 2 copies. Both copies in envelopes. 3 3/4 x 7 1/7 in.

Box 1, Folder 13

San Francisco Roxburghe Club, Christmas MCMXLVI [1946], Palms XXIII. 1946

Physical Description: 1 item Broadside. On back-side at the bottom left corner, "Printed by Lewis & Dorothy Allen on English hand-made paper. Stephen Allen, printer's devil" 9 x 13 in.

Box 2, Folder 2

Roxburghe Club of San Francisco Meetings & Programs Schedule 1945-1946

Physical Description: 1 item 11 x 15 1/4"

Box 1, Folder 14

Miscellaneous Ephemera Series 5.

516 Woodland Road Kentfield California (Envelope Piece) n.d.

Physical Description: 1 items A separated envelope piece.

A very merry Christmas. The L.D. Allen Press. n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item Recto: "There is such a thing as taking ourselves and the world too seriously..." 6 1/2 x 10 in.

The Allen Press order reply card for Allen Press edition of "Dialogues of Creatures Moralised" n.d.

Physical Description: 1 items 6 x 7 in.

Award of Merit Twelfth Western Books Exhibition Nineteen Fifty-Three 1953

Physical Description: 1 items Broadside. 7 x 10 in.

Envelope with Ward Ritchie Label n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item Found Empty. 10 x 13 in.

Some Passengers are introduced...The Wreck of the Golden Mary n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item Woodblock print illustration under the header "Some Passengers are Introduced" 7 x 10 1/2 in.

Past Container List, "Contents of Press Coll. Allen Box" n.d.

Physical Description: 1 item 2 pages.

Toy Sale! Sale, Tuesday June 28th, Place - 20 Laureldale Rd near Bridge Rd. Hillsborough, in Steve Allen's green house n.d.

Physical Description: 2 items Small broadside. 2 copies. 5 x 9 1/2 in.

Box 1, Folder 4

First comprehensive exhibit of books, hand-bindings and ephemera of the L-D Allen Press 1951

Physical Description: 1 item 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.

Box 1, Folder 4

Four folios produced by hand...an exhibit starting March 9, 1964 1964

Physical Description: 1 item 5 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.

Collection Contents

Correspondence

Prospectuses

Prospectuses: A-B

Prospectuses: C

Prospectuses: E-H

Prospectuses: L-M

Prospectuses: O-R

Prospectuses: S

Prospectuses: T-Y

Book Club of California

Roxburghe Club of San Francisco

Miscellaneous Ephemera