Guide to the Roy Vernon Sowers Papers M0887
Processed by Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Steven Mandeville-Gamble
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
1999
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Roy Vernon Sowers Papers
Identifier/Call Number: M0887
Physical Description:
1 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1920-1984
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the estate of Margaret Cosgrave Sowers, 1996.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item] Roy Vernon Sowers Papers, M0887, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanfordy Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Related Materials
See also the Roy Vernon Sowers and Margaret Cosgrave Sowers papers (M0888)
Scope and Contents
Biographical information, correspondence, George Cosgrave correspondence, exhibit announcements, printing ephemera, and an
incomplete set of his catalogs, #1-79.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Printing -- California.
Book collecting.
Booksellers and bookselling -- California.
Printers.
John Howell Books (San Francisco, Calif.)
Mason, Roger Burford.
Nash, John Henry
Ritchie, Ward.
Sarton, George
Antin, Charles.
Schad, Jasper.
Singer, Charles, 1876-1960
Brasch, Frederick E. (Frederick Edward), 1875-1967
Sowers, Margaret Cosgrave.
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstr
Wilson, Adrian
Cosgrave, George.
Taylor & Taylor.
Edmunds, Will H.
Zeitlin, Jake
Evans, Herbert.
Wood, Casey A. (Casey Albert),
Gentry, Helen.
Powell, Lawrence Clark
Bender, Albert M. (Albert Maurice), 1866-1941
Grabhorn Press
Gunst, Morgan A.
box 1, folder 1
RVS biographical information
1973
box 1, folder 2
Jake Zeitlin biographical information
1988
box 1, folder 3
RVS correspondence with publishers and dealers
1920-30
box 1, folder 4
RVS correspondence
1930-60
box 1, folder 7
RVS correspondence with Edmunds
box 1, folder 8
Correspondence, George Cosgrave with booksellers
1920-30
box 1, folder 9
RVS exhibit announcements