Preliminary Guide to the Table-Talk Press Collection
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Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Preliminary Guide to the Table-Talk Press Collection, 1984-1989
Collection number: Printers Mss 18
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara
Contact Information:
- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
-
10 December 2003
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
© 2003 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.
Series 1.
Correspondence (along with enclosed manuscripts, artwork, and proofs)
Box 1: 1 - 2
Dawson, Fielding, 1985 - 1988
Box 1: 4
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1986
Abstract: [1 ALS and 1 postcard]
Box 1: 5
McClure, Michael, 1985 - 1986
Box 1: 7
Miller, Henry, 1987
Abstract: [Correspondence to/from heirs re publishing a 1965 letter from Miller to Charles Bukowski as a holiday greeting card; also
a proof and copy of the card]
Box 1: 8
Scalapino, Leslie, 1985 - 1986
Box 1: 10
Wakoski, Diane, 1985-1986, 1989
Abstract: [2 TLS from DW and 1 TLS from Robert J. Turney re DW)
Box 1: 11
Whalen, Philip, 1985 - 1986
Abstract: [Correspondence mostly re Table-Talk's first publication, Whalen's "The Elizabethan Phrase," printed as a broadside; also
copies of other Whalen poems]
Series 2.
Publication Files (incl. artwork, printer's mockups, promotional flyers, and proofs)
Box 1: 13
Poetry Broadsides, 1985 - 1986
Series 3.
Wood-mounted Zinc Blocks
Box 1: 15 - 17
Wood-mounted Zinc Blocks, ca. 1987 - 1988
Abstract: [3 items; for artwork on Dawson and Johnson broadsides]
Series 4.
Oversize Materials
Box 2: 1
Five Broadsides, 1985 - 1986
Abstract: [Portfolio and signed copies of the broadsides]
Box 2: 2
Proofs, 1985 - 1987
Abstract: [Poetry broadsides and Miller holiday card]