Series 1. Christmas Cards/ Personal Correspondence
Blaine Lewis/Innominate Press; Arthur Rushmore/Edna Rushmore
Norman Straus; Stauffacher
various Christmas cards and personal correspondence
Christmas and New Years cards. 1872, 1873.
Series 2. Inauguration of F.W. Ness as President of Fresno State College
2 items printed by Ward Ritchie Press
Series 3. Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, Rollins College Department of Books, and Angel Alley Press materials
Angel Alley Press
Fight of a Book for the World
Inadvisability of Arriving at Conclusions
Songs of A Day
Lyric Heart
A Professor of Books
The Town that became a University
Rollins' Slant on Creative Writing / by Edwin Osgood Grover
announcement of courses in the appreciation and use of books, Rollins College
Series 4. Lawrence Clark Powell -see also oversized materials
Writings about librarianship: The Alchemy of Books; This Dry and Wrinkled Land; Land of Fiction; Sky, Sun, and Water, the Southwest of Frederick Webb Hodges
Publications: The Three L's; In Search of Spring; William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Welcoming Address; Recollections of an ex-bookseller; Aldous Huxley (2 copies); Trans Pecos; Bent's Fort.
Los Angeles Printing: 8 items by LCP or printed "for the Friends of LCP."
Laboratory Press at the Carnegie Institute of Technology
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Series 5. Exhibit Materials
Exhibit Announcements: 10 items from exhibits at: the Huntington Library, Library of Congress, American Institute of Graphic Arts, Book Club of California, Williams College, Schaeffer Galleries. (1928-1970)
Exhibit Publications: 5 items from exhibits at: Williams College, John Henry Nash Library (Aldine Press), UC Santa Cruz (Thomas Carlyle), Royal Academy Diploma Gallery (1935-1970), University of Michigan Clements Library (Presbyterian Church in America, 1947)
Exhibit Publications: 4 items from exhibits at: UCLA Clark Memorial Library, National Arts Club, Huntington Library, Colorado College. (1936-1967).
Exhibits - Stanford Libraries: 13 items: John Steinbeck (1975), Gunst Collection (1963), Eric Gill (1954), Colt Press (1956), John Cole (1982), Ansel Adams and W. Stegner (1982), F.L. Wright (1981), California as seen by German Travellers (1980), W. Somerset Maugham (1979), Broad Pen... Lecture (1979), Magna Carta (1978), Green Library Dedication (1980).
Series 6. Prospectus from Fine Presses and Book shops - see also oversized materials
A-C
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Allen Press (8 items, c. 1953-1973)
D-H (17 items):
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Golden Head Press (5 items, c. 1962-1965)
Grabhorn Press (2 items, c.1953)
Greenwood Press/J. Stauffacher
J-Penguin
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Porpoise Book shop (4 items, c. 1950s)
Peter Pauper-S
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T-Z
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Ward Ritchie Press
Stanford University Libraries Annual Reports1973-74, 1974-75 -
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Gleeson Library Associates Materials 16 items, ca. 1978-1990:
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Series 7. Fine Press Publications
Benjamin Franklin on the art of eating (Princeton University Press for the American Philosophical Society, 1958)
Is there a Santa Claus? (Grosset & Dunlap, 1934)
Journey to Truckee (Elkus Press, 1945)
Ritchie, Ward, William Morris and his Praise of Wine (Ward Ritchie Press, 1958)
Stevenson, R.L., Silverado Squatters, the introductory chapter (Kit-Cat Press, 1988)
"These are the times that try men's souls" ( University of Michigan, 1942 -
Introduction to Ben Johnson's "Three Masques" (W.C. Bamburgh, Presentation copy no. 18/39)
Lincoln, Abraham, An Appreciation of Thomas Jefferson (Wallace Kibbee & Son, 1937)
Magee, David, Chapter II of an unpublished autobiography (Sherwood Grover, 1979 -
Territory of Utah, (Westgate Press, 1951)
Turner Thesis and the dry world (Texas Western Press, 1960)
Allen Press 2 items (c. 1950s):
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Blackwood Press
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Roxburghe, Zamorano, and Rounce & Coffin Materials - see also oversized materials
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Series 8. Publications about Books, Book Collecting, Binding
ABC Keepsake. Oxford University Press, 1944.
Anatomy of a Library, Sutro Library, San Francisco.
Book Collecting Should be Fun, by Frederic C. Melcher. Sheboygan, Elm City Press, 1947.
Chief End of Book Madness, by L. C. Wroth.
Editing Donne and Pope. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, lecture program, 1952.
Fifty Books of the Year 1948, New York: American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1948.
First Annual Report of The Vancouver Bookshop and Fun in a Bookshop, Vancouver Bookship. signed.
For Further Reading, compiled by Willard Smith, Mills College: Eucalyptus Press, 1935.
Journey to Truckee, Berkeley: The Elkus Press, 1945
My Ten-Cent Shelf, by Mitchell Kennerly, Clements Library reprint from March 1944 American Mercury.
Olive Percival Collection of Children's Books, UCLA.
Revelations of Two Celebrated Book-Snatchers or, What Victoria Read - the Sadleir Collection, Friends of the UCLA library,1953.
Western Books 1946, 1947. LA: Rounce and Coffin Club.
Series 9. Publications of the Book Trade
Taylor & Taylor insert to Annual of Bookmaking, 1938
Fine Print (III:4, Oct. 1977)
Dolphin Review of Fine Printing
Journal of the Rutgers University Library
500 Years of Printing, 1940
Bohemian Club Library Notes, Summer 1993
California Society of Etchers, 1935
Colophon Crier, Sept., May, Dec. 1932
E Clampus Vitus, announcement
Hoja Volante, Zamarano Cub, Nov. 1950
Imprimatur, I:1, 1947
Notes on Printing & Graphic Arts, Stinehour Press, I:3, II:1-2. 1953-54
Esto Publishing Co. "Enjoy Your Museum Series"
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Series 10. Typography Examples
"The Pleasures of Study," Anatomy of Melancholy, R. Burton, UCLA Clark Library
"Songs of Innocence," William Blake, 1795?
"Morley on the Prenatal Word," 1940
unbound signatures for Charaters, or Essayers,... by R.M., 1629.
Tribute to Albert M. Bender, Book Club of California, 1941
Response cards to the Roxburghe Club, SF, by Grabhorn Printing, S. Grover
Andreae Vesalii, publication offer
Oscar Lewis (President of Book Club of California) autographed letter to RVS, 1927
Wilder Bentley, Archetype Press Prospectus, Berkeley, 1937
Arthur Rushmore autographed note
Pynson Printers, 10 Announcements, 1930-34
Sumac Press, example
The Friendly hen, broadside (2 copies)
Evelyn Hassbaum, 2 examples of work
Series 11. Oversized materials
Greenwood Press, Taylor & Taylor Printers, Windsor Press, Golden Cockerel Press, McKenzie & Harris, Inc.
Unidentified Ledgers
Items from Travels6 items:
Lawrence Clark Powell - oversized materials2 items:
"Safety First" Calendar, the Curwen Press
Roxburghe Club Materials
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