Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Descriptive Summary
Title: Table-Talk Press Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1984-1989
Collection Number: Printers Mss 18
Collector:
Sherick (Michael)
Extent:
.6 linear feet
(1 document box and 1 oversize box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Box 1 (Del Sur); Box 2 (Del Sur Oversize)
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
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
Table-Talk Press Collection. Printers Mss 18. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Purchase and donation from Michael Sherick, 1991-1992.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains artwork, correspondence, manuscripts, printer's mockups, promotional flyers, proofs, and other related
material from Michael Sherick's Santa Barbara-based Table-Talk Press. Correspondents include Fielding Dawson, Clayton Eshleman,
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Henry Johnson, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Leslie Scalapino, Gary Snyder, Robert Sycamore, Diane
Wakoski, and Philip Whalen. Some of the Table-Talk works were designed and printed by David Dahl, Graham Mackintosh, and Judyl
Mudfoot (Mudborn Press).
Printed copies of Table-Talk Press works, mainly poetry broadsides, have been cataloged separately and can be searched on
Pegasus, the UCSB Libraries online catalog.