Finding Aid to Vance Gerry and the Weather Bird Press Archive, 1966 -1992
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Vance Gerry and the Weather Bird Press Archive,
Date (inclusive): 1966-1992
Collection number: Press coll. Archives Weather Bird
Creator:
Gerry, Vance
Extent: 12 boxes and map drawer
Repository:
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Source of Acquisition/Provenance
Gift, 1988 (Six boxes) from the artist.
Gift, 1992 (Two boxes) from the artist.
Gift, 2008 from Jeff Weber (MS.2008.010)
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library, UCLA. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Librarian. Permission
for publication is given on behalf of the William Andrews Clark Memorial
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to
include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be
obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Vance Gerry and the Weather Bird Press Archive, 1966-1992. William Andrews Clark Memorial Library,
Los Angeles, California.
Biography
Born and raised in Pasadena, California, Vance Gerry was an apprentice at the Castle
Press of Grant Dahlstrom as a teenager. He learned the basic principles of book design
and how to set type by hand. First trained as a commercial artist at Woodbury College,
Gerry later attended the Art Center for Design and the Chouinard Art Institute, where he
used his G.I. Bill to pay for school. At Chouinard, he studied under Donald W. Graham,
the renowned animation artist.
In 1955, he worked at the Walt Disney Animation Studio as a layout and story sketch
artist. He has contributed his ideas and drawings to films like
Sleeping Beauty, 101 Dalmatians, The Jungle Book, Winnie-the-Pooh and the
Honey Tree,
and
The Sword in the Stone, and
Beauty and the Beast. The last film he worked on at Disney was
The Lion King.
From 1967, Gerry operated the Weather Bird Press at various locations around Los
Angeles. The press moved from Laguna Beach, where it was temporarily called the Peach Pit
Press, to Fallbrook, and finally to Pasadena. He has used different presses and machines
throughout the years: a Linotype machine, a Miehle vertical, a Vandercook press, and
others. He also uses several different font types, some rarely seen in commercial
printing presses.
With his talent as an imaginative artist, he has illustrated most of his books with line
drawings, linoleum cuts, and pochoir. He has also written and printed several books under
the pseudonym of Bunston Quayles.
Gerry died March 5, 2005 in Pasadena, California.
Arrangement
This inventory has been arranged in Gerry's original filing system by job envelope, then
put in alphabetical order by title of book. In the case of personal letterhead printing,
this has been arranged alphabetically by last name. Filed in folders, they contain the
paperwork concerning the production of a particular book, preliminary designs, rejected
proofs, galley proofs, paste-ups, dummies, and page proofs.
In the following finding aid, a general description has been given about the contents of
each box. Each folder heading contains a more detailed description of its contents.
Oversized papers are stored in separate, larger boxes (box 9 & 10). Galley proofs are
housed in a map drawer in the second annex.
When requesting items, please state box number, folder number, and title.
Scope and Content
The collection of Vance Gerry's Weather Bird Press jobs primarily consists of
illustrations, layout sketches, galley, page, and signature proofs, dummies,
correspondence, ephemera, pochoir samples, and stencils. It was given to the William
Andrews Clark Memorial Library in 1988 and 1992. The collection is contained in eight
boxes. Oversized papers are stored in a map drawer under the title of Weather Bird Press.
Container List
Correspondence, Proofs, sketches, dummy, drafts: 1987-1992.
Correspondence 1968-1992.
"Los Angeles Printers" article (first, second, and final drafts)
"Medley of Printers Past" (text by Ward Ritchie)
Box 1, Folder 2A
Correspondence with Libraries, Universities, and Museums
Bodleian Library, California State Library, California Historical Society
Library, Clark Library (John Bidwell, Bill Conway), Berkeley, Columbia
Box 1, Folder 2B
Correspondence with Book Shops
Dawson's Book Shop, Chiswick Book Shop, Barry Cassidy Rare Books,
Lorson's Books and Prints, Peggy Christian Bookseller, Kit Currie Books
Box 1, Folder 2C
Correspondence with Private Presses and Printers
Linda Brownrigg, Dorothy Bevis, Larry Clemmons, Dan Cronkhite, Charlene Garry, Grant Dahlstrom, David Davies, Paul Duensing,
Herb Yellin (Lord John Press), Ernie Lindner, Spring Valley Press, James Weygand, Sandra Kirshenbaum
Box 1, Folder 2D
Correspondence, various
Scope and Content Note
Roby Wentz, Rounce and Coffin Club, Atlantic Monthly, Jane Apostol, Pall Bohne, Fred Williams
Box 1, Folder 3A
Grant Dahlstrom's Patterned Papers, 1988 (Glen Dawson and the Press)
Physical Description: (proofs, sketches, first drafts w/ corrections, samples of patterned papers, paste-ups)
Box 1, Folder 3B
Grant Dahlstrom's Patterned Papers
Physical Description: (dummy)
Box 1, Folder 4
Hearty Fare: A Gentleman's Cookery Book, 1990 (Bunston Quayles)
Physical Description: (sketches, proofs, dummy, recipes
written on index cards, corrections)
Note
Oversized papers are stored in box 9.
Box 1, Folder 5
A Journal Of Black Art. Type and Press
Physical Description: (samples of layout, mock-ups, paste up, proofs)
Box 1, Folder 6
Pattern for Matrix Cover
Physical Description: (sample of pattern, correspondence with John Randle)
Box 1, Folder 7
San Pasqual Press and Edward Ardizzone
Physical Description: (samples, mock-up, written text,
proofs, ephemera)
Box 1, Folder 8A
Selected Shore Plants of Southern California, 1992 (Charles L. Richardson)
Physical Description: (galley proofs, Weather Bird Press folder with cover and texts)
Box 1, Folder 8B
Selected Shore Plants of Southern California
Physical Description: (sketches for front cover, illustrations)
Box 1, Folder 8C
Selected Shore Plants of Southern California
Physical Description: (illustrations: rough sketches, research on plants)
Box 1, Folder 9A
The Spanish Cook. Selected Recipes from
"El Cocinero Espanol," 1992
Physical Description: (material swatches for cover, galley proofs)
(
Encarnacion Pindeo - edited and translated by Dan Strehl)
Box 1, Folder 9B
The Spanish Cook
Physical Description: (sketches, proofs, plans for binding, patterns)
Box 1, Folder 9C
The Spanish Cook
Physical Description: (proofs with corrections, prospectus)
Box 1, Folder 9D
The Spanish Cook
Physical Description: (author's page proofs, sample watercolor cover)
Box 1, Folder 9E
The Spanish Cook
Physical Description: (galley proofs, sketches)
Box 1, Folder 9F
The Spanish Cook
Physical Description: (dummy, signature proofs)
Box 1, Folder 9G
The Spanish Cook,
Physical Description: (recipes, correspondence with Dan Strehl)
Note
Oversized papers stored in box 9.
Box 1, Folder 9H
The Spanish Cook
Physical Description: (illustrations, watercolor, sketches)
Box 1, Folder 10
Jake Zeitlin Memorial, 1987
Physical Description: (samples of final, correspondence with David Zeitlin, mock-up, lyrics for memorial song)
Proofs, sketches, correspondence, stencils: 1985-1991.
Box 2, Folder 1
Across the River into the Trailer, 1989 (Bunston Quayles)
Physical Description: (first & second draft ms, sketches for layout, galley proofs, dummy)
Box 2, Folder 2
Book Collectors of Los Angeles
Note
Oversized patterns in map drawer.
Patterns, sketches, correspondence with Dan Strehl, recipes for desserts, photocopies
Box 2, Folder 3
Christmas Feast, Miniature Booklet 1987
Physical Description: (dummy, paste-up, recipe for plum pudding, sketches, galley proofs)
Box 2, Folder 4
Christmas Kitchens, 1991
Physical Description: (proofs, sketches)
Box 2, Folder 5
Dawson's Book Shop Tokens
Physical Description: (sketches, illustrations, correspondence with & second draft ms, sketches for layout, galley proofs, dummy)
Note
Oversized papers are stored in Box 9.
Box 2, Folder 6
Wanda Gag, decorators
Physical Description: (proofs, paste-up, sketches)
Note
Oversized sketches stored in Box 9
Box 2, Folder 7
Goodbye: E.G. Lindner Company, 1989 (Vance Gerry)
Physical Description: (line drawings, first/second drafts with corrections, patterns for cover, galley proofs, illustrations, dummy)
Note
Oversized sketches stored in Box 9.
Box 2, Folder 8
Instructions for make-ready
Box 2, Folder 9
A Los Angeles Legend, Olive Percival
Physical Description: (Jane Apostol's manuscript, typographical notes)
Box 2, Folder 10
Olive Percival Calendar, 1990 (Olive Percival)
Physical Description: (dummy, sketches, galley proofs, poetry by Percival)
Box 2, Folder 11A
Madeleine, 1990 (Lawrence Clark Powell)
Physical Description: (illustrations, correspondence, permission letters, proofs, pochoir)
Note
Oversized papers are stored in Box 9.
Box 2, Folder 11B
Madeleine drawings
Note
Oversized papers are stored in Box 9
Box 2, Folder 11E
Madeleine preliminary cover sketches
Note
Oversized papers are stored in Box 9.
Box 2, Folder 12
Matrix Project / Experto Engravers
Physical Description: (Wanda Gag ornament sketches, correspondence with Experto Industrial Engravers)
Box 2, Folder 13
Matrix Stenciling Article
Physical Description: (illustrations, watercolor, patterns, pochoir samples, correspondence with John Randle, instructions for stenciling, stencils)
Box 2, Folder 14
Claire Williams McLiam Letterhead
Physical Description: (correspondence with McLiam, sketches, photocopies of wood cutting)
Box 2, Folder 15
Seaside Plants of Southern California, 1989 (Charles Leland Richardson)
Physical Description: (dummy, illustrations, proofs, research on plants, list of plants)
Box 2, Folder 16
The Standing and the Waiting, 1990 (M.F.K. Fisher)
Physical Description: (stencils, proofs, dummy)
Box 2, Folder 17A
Supplement to San Pasqual Press, 1989 (Vance Gerry)
Physical Description: (correspondence with Val Trefz, transcript from Harvey Humphrey tape, proofs, galley
proofs, corrections, interview audio cassette)
Box 2, Folder 17B
Supplement to San Pasqual Press
Physical Description: special binding (dummy)
Box 2, Folder 18
Transpacific: 1966, Travel Notes from a Foreign Land 1980 (Lawrence Clark Powell)
Physical Description: (2 dummies, cover design and notes, correspondence with Lawrence Clark Powell, costs)
Box 2, Folder 19
Types in use at the Weather Bird Press, 1990
Physical Description: (proofs, dummy)
Box 2, Folder 20
Weather Bird Press Catalog, 1989-90
Physical Description: (paste-ups, galley proofs, layout sketches)
Box 2, Folder 21
Weather Bird Press Catalog, 1991
Physical Description: (paste-up, dummy)
Box 2, Folder 22
Weather Bird Press Illustrations
Box 2, Folder 23
Jeff Weber Letterhead
Physical Description: (sketches, illustrations, correspondence with Weber)
Box 2, Folder 24
A Weed Among the Flowers, 1990
Physical Description: sketches, illustrations, correspondence with Patrick Reagh)
Box 2, Folder 25
Z to A: Illyria to Cambria, 1990 (Lawrence Clark Powell)
Physical Description: (dummy, photo copies of seaside cities)
Box 2, Folder 26
Miscellaneous
Physical Description: (b/w contact sheet and negatives)
Proofs, sketches, correspondence, dummy: 1980-1985.
Box 3, Folder 1
Christmas Night in the Castle of Forest Sauvage, Christmas 1982 (T.H. White)
Physical Description: (dummy, patterns, text of story, galley proofs)
Box 3, Folder 2
Clark Library: Clark Owl
Physical Description: (artwork and woodblock prints)
Box 3, Folder 3
Food and Drink Series 1-
Recipe for Salad, 1980 (Sidney Smith)
Physical Description: (dummy, proofs, sketch for cover)
Box 3, Folder 4
Food and Drink Series 3-
Mission, (date) (David Hitchcock)
Physical Description: (pen illustrations, proof, dummy, correspondence, galley proofs, paste-up)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 3, Folder 5
Food and Drink Series 4-
Sandwiches and Tea, 1983 (Ford Madox Ford)
Physical Description: (illustrations, dummy, text-manuscript, stencils, permission correspondence)
Box 3, Folder 6
Food and Drink Series 5-
Vegetable Soup, 1984 (Della Lutes)
Physical Description: (pochoir samples, sketches, recipe for soup, dummy, galley proofs, permission)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 3, Folder 7
Food and Drink Series 6-
Plum Pudding, 1984 (Della Lutes)
Physical Description: (sketches, galley proofs, text, dummy)
Box 3, Folder 8A
Four Weeds, 1984 (Charles Leland Richardson)
Physical Description: (dummy, proofs, illustrations, research on weeds)
Note
Oversized papers are in Box 9
Box 3, Folder 9
Kitty Hitchcock Wedding Invitations, 1982
Physical Description: (correspondence with Hitchcock, proofs)
Box 3, Folder 10
House Olson, Printer, 1982 (David W. Davies)
Physical Description: (sketch of cover, dummy, preliminary draft, correspondence with Dave Davies)
Box 3, Folder 11
House Olson, Printer, 1983
Physical Description: (photograph & halftone of Olson, mock-up, galley proofs, corrections on text)
Box 3, Folder 12
House Olson, Printer, 1984
Physical Description: (correspondence with Dave Davies, manuscript)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 3, Folder 13
Landacre Catalog
Physical Description: (galley proofs, text)
Box 3, Folder 14
A Letter from Mark Twain Concerning the Paige Compositor, 1982 (Samuel Clemens)
Physical Description: (proofs, paste-up, sketches)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 3, Folder 15
Little People, 1983 (Mr. Anonymous)
Physical Description: (proofs, sketches, correspondence with Jim Lorson)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 9
Box 3, Folder 16
The National Pastime, 1982 (John Cheever)
Physical Description: (galley proofs, sketches)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 3, Folder 17
Nine Poems from Los Angeles, 1982 (Mark Nicoll-Johnson)
Physical Description: (dummy, galley proofs, correspondence, poems, sketches for layout)
Box 3, Folder 18A
Nothing to Wear, 1982 (William Allen Butler)
Physical Description: (research on lace, layout sketches, dummy, illustrations)
Box 3, Folder 18B
Nothing to Wear (prospectus)
Box 3, Folder 19
Wilfred Owen and Dale Barnhart
Physical Description: (correspondence, poetry, dummy, galley proofs)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 3, Folder 20
Selected War Poems of Wilfred Owen, 1983 (Wilfred Owen)
Physical Description: (linoleum prints, dummy)
Note
Entire contents in map drawer.
Box 3, Folder 21
Weather Bird Press Catalog, 1983, and Wilfred Owen prospectus
Physical Description: (proofs, manuscript, linoleum prints)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 3, Folder 22
Weather Bird Press #7, Fall/Winter 1981
Physical Description: (correspondence, acknowledgments, dummy, galley proofs)
Box 3, Folder 23
Weather Bird Press #8, Fall/Winter 1982
Physical Description: (proofs, illustrations, index cards, paste-up, dummy)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 3, Folder 24
Weather Bird Press #9, Fall/Winter 1983
Physical Description: (galley proofs, manuscript, illustrations, dummy)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 3, Folder 25
Weather Bird Press #10, Fall/Winter 1984
Physical Description: (galley proofs, illustrations, dummy, paste-up, paper weight (metal wrapped)
Box 3, Folder 26
Weather Bird Press Catalog of books, Spring 1983
Physical Description: (dummy [3], galley proofs, manuscript for text)
Box 3, Folder 27
40th Western Books Exhibition, 1981
Physical Description: (galley proofs, dummy)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 3, Folder 28
Western Book Exhibition (Award Certificate), 1985
Proofs, sketches, correspondence, drafts, dummy: 1971-1985.
Box 4, Folder 1A
The Art and Antiquity of Cooking in the Middle Ages, 1979 (RochelleLucky)
Physical Description: (dummy, paste-up, linoleum prints, illustrations)
Box 4, Folder 1B
The Art and Antiquity of Cooking in the Middle Ages
Physical Description: (recipes on index cards, correspondence with Shelly Lucky, illustrations)
Box 4, Folder 1C
The Art and Antiquity of Cooking in the Middle Ages
Physical Description: (correspondence with Shelly Lucky)
Box 4, Folder 1D
The Art and Antiquity of Cooking in the Middle Ages
Physical Description: (dummy, cover sketches, signature proofs)
Box 4, Folder 1E
The Art and Antiquity of Cooking in the Middle Ages
Note
(galley proofs in map drawer.)
Box 4, Folder 1F
The Art and Antiquity of Cooking in the Middle Ages
Physical Description: (page proofs)
Box 4, Folder 1G
The Art and Antiquity of Cooking in the Middle Ages
Physical Description: (manuscript)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 4, Folder 1H
The Art and Antiquity of Cooking in the Middle Ages
Box 4, Folder 1I
The Art and Antiquity of Cooking in the Middle Ages
Physical Description: (galley proofs, correspondence with Shelly Lucky)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 4, Folder 1J
The Art and Antiquity of Cooking in the Middle Ages.
Physical Description: (illustrations, correspondence with Shelly Lucky)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 9.
Box 4, Folder 2
A Bibliophile's Los Angeles, 1985
Physical Description: (correspondence with John Bidwell, maps of Los Angeles, illustrations)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 9.
Box 4, Folder 3A
The Black Cat, 1971 (Edgar Allan Poe)
Physical Description: (galley proofs, dummy)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 9, galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 4, Folder 3B
The Black Cat
Physical Description: (illustrations)
Box 4, Folder 4
Christmas Eve at Bower's Farm, 1978 (Bill Adams)
Physical Description: (illustrations, sketches, dummy, proofs, mock-up)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 4, Folder 5
Helen Dahlstrom Memorial
Physical Description: (dummy, speeches from memorial, galley proofs, correspondence with Zeitlin)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 9.
Box 4, Folder 6A
The Everyday Gourmet, 1973 (Dan and Betty Bailey)
Physical Description: (galley proofs, manuscript, illustrations, dummy, mock-up)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 4, Folder 6B.
The Everyday Gourmet
Note
Oversized papers in Box 9.
Box 4, Folder 7
Fair Wind (Richard Henry Dana, Jr.)
Physical Description: (illustrations, proofs)
Box 4, Folder 8
FWG, 1972 (Edwin Grabhorn)
Physical Description: (dummy, proofs)
Box 4, Folder 9
John and Linda Hancy Anniversary Invitation
Physical Description: (sketches)
Box 4, Folder 10
A Picture Book of Chickens, (Bunston Quayles)
Physical Description: (photo engravings of chickens, cover layout, sketches)
Box 4, Folder 11
Ward Ritchie's 75th Birthday Invitation, 1985
Physical Description: (sketches)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 9.
Box 4, Folder 12
Some Letters Concerning D. H. Lawrence, 1978
Physical Description: (galley proofs, correspondence, permission letters from Dorothy Brett, Frieda Lawrence, and Mabel Dodge Luhan)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 4, Folder 13A
Special Recipes for Special People, 1976 (Vera Ricci)
Physical Description: (layout, galley proofs)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 4, Folder 13B
Special Recipes for Special People
Physical Description: Manuscript for recipes.
Box 4, Folder 13C
Special Recipes for Special People
Physical Description: Dummy, illustrations
Box 4, Folder 14
Weather Bird Press, Catalog of Books, 1972
Physical Description: (dummy, paste-up, galley proofs)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 9, galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 4, Folder 15
Weather Bird Press, A Catalog of Books, 1973
Physical Description: (dummy, galley proofs, manuscript)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 4, Folder 16
Weather Bird Press #4, 1978
Physical Description: (dummy, job progress, proofs, manuscript)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 9.
Box 4, Folder 17
Weather Bird Press #5, Fall/Winter 1979
Physical Description: (dummy, manuscript, notes)
Box 4, Folder 18
Weather Bird Press, A Catalog of Books, 1985-86
Physical Description: (paste-up, proofs)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 9.
Box 4, Folder 19
Western Books Exhibition, 1973
Physical Description: (proofs)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 9.
Box 4, Folder 20
A Victorian Garden, 1980 (McLoughlin Brothers)
Physical Description: (sketches, proofs, manuscript, job progress)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 9.
Box 4, Folder 21
Miscellaneous
Physical Description: (negatives, contact sheets, photograph)
Proofs, sketches, correspondence, dummy:
1971-1978
Box 5, Folder 1
American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers
Physical Description: (mock-up, dummy, cost estimates, galley proofs, sketches)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 5, Folder 2
Ballade de L'Ex Libris, 1978 (Jules de Marthold)
Physical Description: (correspondence with Audrey Arellanes and George Swarth, sketches, paste-up)
Box 5, Folder 3
Will Bradley, 1976 (Jane Apostol)
Physical Description: (dummy, paste-up, page proofs, negatives/positives, manuscript, correspondence with Jane
Apostol, galley proofs)
Box 5, Folder 5A
The Day the Pig Fell into the Well, 1978 (John Cheever)
Physical Description: (correspondence with Herb Yellin, manuscript, galley proofs)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 5, Folder 5B
The Day the Pig Fell into the Well (illustrations, mock-up)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 9.
Box 5, Folder 6A
Grant Dahlstrom, Master Printer, 1977 (various tributes)
Physical Description: (dummy, galley and page proofs)
Box 5, Folder 6B
Grant Dahlstrom, Master Printer
Physical Description: (illustrations)
Box 5, Folder 7
Grant Dahlstrom's 75th Birthday Invitation, 1976
Physical Description: (proofs, cover sketches)
Box 5, Folder 8
Grant Dahlstrom at 75, 1978 (Ward Ritchie and Margot and H. Richard Archer)
Physical Description: (page and galley proofs, mini dummy, cover sketch, correspondence w/ Dawson)
Box 5, Folder 9
English Christmas Customs, 1979 (Dorothy Gladys Spicer)
Physical Description: (galley proofs, sketches)
Box 5, Folder 10
Four Common Plants, 1978 (existing sources)
Physical Description: (page proofs, watercolor, sketches, dummy)
Box 5, Folder 11
Galerie Cezanne Invitation, 1971
Physical Description: (sketches, page proofs)
Box 5, Folder 12
I Remember Robinson Jeffers, 1978 (Ward Ritchie)
Physical Description: (mock-up, galley and page proofs, job progress, cover proofs, sketches, correspondence with Huntington Library, Ritchie's
manuscript)
Box 5, Folder 13
D. H. Lawrence Drawings
Physical Description: (line drawings, photo copies of Lawrence photos)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Note
Oversized papers in Box 9.
Box 5, Folder 14
Ernest A. Lindner Collection of Antique Printing Machinery.,1971
Physical Description: (cover sketch)
Box 5, Folder 15
The Marvelous Platen Jobber of G. P. Gordon, 1976
Physical Description: (dummy, paste-up, proofs)
Box 5, Folder 16
Teri and Mark Nicoll-Johnson Wedding Invitation, 1978
Physical Description: (sample)
Box 5, Folder 17
Out of the West, 1979
Physical Description: (William Everson, Gary Snyder, Philip Levine, Clayton Eshelman, and Jerome Rothenberg)
Physical Description: (illustrations, sketches, galley and page proofs, paste-up, cover design)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 5, Folder 18
Poems by Em Bee, 1975 (Miriam Bragdon)
Physical Description: (correspondence with Miriam Bragdon, galley proofs, sketches for cover)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 9.
Box 5, Folder 19
Special Recipes for Special People
Physical Description: miscellaneous items
Box 5, Folder 20
A Topography of the Castle Press
Physical Description: (galley proofs, mock-up, dummy (2), illustrations, manuscript, cover sketch, job progress)
Box 5, Folder 21A
A Tussie Mussie, 1976 (Louise Seymour Jones)
Physical Description: (galley proofs, correspondence with Rex Jones, Margaret Fay, Ward Ritchie, Jake Zeitlin,
Audrey Arellanes)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 5, Folder 21B
A Tussie Mussie
Physical Description: (illustrations, dummy, sample swatches, cloth covered covers)
Box 5, Folder 22
Weather Bird Press #2, Fall 1976
Physical Description: (dummy, paste-up)
Box 5, Folder 23
Weather Bird Press, Catalog of Books, Fall 1976
Physical Description: (dummy, paste-up, proofs, manuscript)
Proofs, sketches, correspondence, and dummy:
1974-1981.
Box 6, Folder 1
American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers, 1974
Physical Description: (galley proofs, cover sketches)
Box 6, Folder 2
Lucia Batten Collection at the Huntington Library
Physical Description: (cover sketches)
Box 6, Folder 3
Bibliography of Cheney Miniatures, 1975 (Carey S. Bliss)
Physical Description: (paste-up, cover sketches, correspondence with Dawson's Book Shop, prints of cover, dummy
(3), mock-up, galley proofs)
Box 6, Folder 4
Christmas in England, 1974 (Washington Irving)
Physical Description: (dummy, paste-ups, text, galley proofs)
Box 6, Folder 5
A Christmas Prayer, 1979 (Dan Bailey)
Physical Description: (page proofs, correspondence with Dan Bailey)
Box 6, Folder 6
Dibdin's Ghost, 1980 (Eugene Field)
Physical Description: (galley, dummy, page proofs, paste-up, correspondence with Jim Lorson)
Box 6, Folder 7
Distributing Type or Just the Art of Throwing In, 1975 (Vance Gerry)
Physical Description: (manuscript, galley proofs, dummy, illustrations)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 10, galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 6, Folder 8
Marian Gore, Bookseller, Specializing in Food and Drink Literature, 1981
Physical Description: (sketch)
Box 6, Folder 9
Greetings; Josephine and Jake Zeitlin (card)
Box 6, Folder 10
Historic Views of Orange County, 1980 (Grant Dahlstrom?)
Box 6, Folder 11A
Marion Kronfeld Designs Cut for Plantin Press Calendars 1941-1946, 1980
Physical Description: (mock-up, dummy)
Box 6, Folder 11B
Marion Kronfeld Designs Cut for Plantin Press Calendars 1941-1946
Physical Description: (manuscript, page and galley proofs)
Box 6, Folder 12A
Ernest A. Lindner Collection of Antique Printing Machinery, 1971
Physical Description: (dummy, mock-up, ms)
Box 6, Folder 12B.
Ernest A. Lindner Collection of Antique Printing Machinery
Physical Description: (illustrations, costs)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 10
Box 6, Folder 12C
Ernest A. Lindner Collection of Antique Printing Machinery
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 6, Folder 12D
Ernest A. Lindner Collection of Antique Printing Machinery
Physical Description: (notes and research)
Box 6, Folder 12E
Ernest A. Lindner Collection of Antique Printing Machinery
Box 6, Folder 12F
Ernest A. Lindner Collection of Antique Printing Machinery
Physical Description: (repro proofs)
Box 6, Folder 12G
Ernest A. Lindner Collection of Antique Printing Machinery
Physical Description: (final ms, info sheets)
Box 6, Folder 13
A Machine Invented Upon Mature Consideration of Mechanick Powers Deducted from Geometrick Principles
Physical Description: (galley proofs, text, cover sketches, ms)
Box 6, Folder 14A
Miniatures On Modern Artists, 1980 (Bunston Quayles)
Physical Description: (Ms, galley, research)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 10, galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 6, Folder 14B
Miniatures On Modern Artists, 1980
Physical Description: (illustrations, negatives, proofs)
Box 6, Folder 15
G. B. Piranes, Etchings- Catalog, 1980
Physical Description: (page and galley proofs, negatives, cover sketches, pencil sketch, cost estimates)
Note
Oversized illustrations in Box 10. Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 6, Folder 16A
Proud Flesh, 1980 (James Purdy)
Physical Description: (page proofs, dummy, correspondence with Herb Yellin, sketches)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 10 .
Box 6, Folder 16B
Proud Flesh
Physical Description: (ink drawings, galley proofs, correspondence with Herb Yellin)
Box 6, Folder 17
Reading and Printing, 1977 (Vance Gerry)
Physical Description: (page proofs, cover sketches, ms, dummy correspondence with Charles Antin)
Box 6, Folder 18
Spring Barley, Poems of the Santa Ynez Valley, 1974 (Walt Stanchfield)
Physical Description: (material swatch, galley proof, cover sketch, dummy, paste up)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 10. Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 6, Folder 19
Stillmeadow Christmas, 1980 (Gladys Taber)
Physical Description: (page proofs)
Box 6, Folder 20
Topography of the Castle Press, 1980 (Vance Gerry)
Box 6, Folder 21
Torrey Pines Reserve, 1980 (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 10.
Physical Description: (correspondence with Herb Yellin, layout sketches)
Box 6, Folder 22
A Unique 1824 Columbian Press, 1974
Physical Description: (dummy, galley proofs)
Box 6, Folder 23
Wayzgoose, Los Angeles
Physical Description: (sketches)
Box 6, Folder 24
Weather Bird Press Books, 1974
Physical Description: (paste up)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 10.
Box 6, Folder 25
Weather Bird Press #1, Fall 1975
Note
(galley and page proofs in map drawer.)
Box 6, Folder 26
Weather Bird Press #3, 1977
Physical Description: (dummy, Ms, page proofs)
Box 6, Folder 27
Weather Bird Press #6, 1980
Physical Description: (dummy, sketches, page proofs)
Box 6, Folder 28
Weather Bird Press #9, 1979; Selected books from the stock list of the Weather Bird Press
Physical Description: (page proofs)
Box 6, Folder 29
Zeitlin and Ver Brugge Booksellers, 1980 (Paul Landacre and Arthur Millier estate)
Physical Description: (correspondence)
Box 6, Folder 30
Zeitlin and Ver Brugge Booksellers
Proofs, sketches, correspondence, letterheads, and dummy:
1966-1970.
Box 7, Folder 1
H. Richard Archer, Secretary
Physical Description: (galley and page proofs, correspondence with Rounce & Coffin, sketches, dummy)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 7, Folder 2A.
Bahloul and Hamdouna, 1969 (Sheikh Nefzawi)
Physical Description: (galley proofs, dummy)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 7, Folder 2B
Bahloul and Hamdouna
Physical Description: (sketches, sample prints) /
Note
Oversized papers in Box 10.
Box 7, Folder 3
Betty Bailey Business Card
Box 7, Folder 4
The Boy's Book of Fireworks, 1970 (Edmund Routledge)
Physical Description: (galley proofs, text, paste-up, sketches)
Note
Oversized sketches in Box 10; galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 7, Folder 5
Arthur Bruner, SREA Letterhead
Box 7, Folder 7
Calcomp Annual Picnic 1969
Physical Description: (page and galley proofs)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 7, Folder 8
Chili, 1968 (Danny Alguire)
Physical Description: (mock-up, page proofs)
Box 7, Folder 9
Chicken Coop Menu Insert, 1969
Physical Description: (proofs)
Note
Oversized papers in Box 10.
Box 7, Folder 10
Citizens for Stevenson Campaign
Physical Description: (page proofs, sketches, ephemera)
Note
Oversized sketches in Box 10.
Box 7, Folder 11
Christmas at Manor Farm, 1968 (Charles Dickens)
Physical Description: (dummy, paste-up, sketches, text, timetable)
Box 7, Folder 12
Corley Studio (Polly Nicoll) Business Card
Box 7, Folder 13
The Cove Restaurant Letterhead
Box 7, Folder 14
Cruachan, A Book of Poems, 1966 (Baxter Sperry)
Physical Description: (correspondence with Baxter Sperry, mock-up, dummy, proofs)
Box 7, Folder 15
Mary Elizabeth, 1967
Physical Description: (mock-up, dummy, ms, sketches, proofs)
Box 7, Folder 16
Fashing Haus Brochure
Physical Description: (page proofs, map)
Box 7, Folder 17
The First Thanksgiving, 1968 (William Bradford)
Physical Description: (layout sketches, proofs)
Box 7, Folder 18
John Gerry and his Descendants, 1969 (Francis Gerry)
Physical Description: (galley proofs, correspondence, ms, dummy, family tree)
Note
Galley proofs stored in map drawer.
Box 7, Folder 19
Hancock Heart Valve Prosthesis, 1970
Physical Description: (galley proofs, text, ms, mock-up, paste-up)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 7, Folder 20
Hancock Laboratories, Inc.
Physical Description: (logo sketch ideas, page proofs)
Box 7, Folder 21.
David Hitchcock for Tax Collector Campaign
Physical Description: (campaign stickers, repros)
Box 7, Folder 22
David Hitchcock Bookplate
Physical Description: (correspondence, proofs)
Box 7, Folder 23
David Hitchcock Letterhead,
Note
Repros stored in map drawer.
Box 7, Folder 24
Inter-American Project Development Consultants
Box 7, Folder 25
The Last Time I Dined with a King (Bela Thandor)
Physical Description: (cover, text)
Box 7, Folder 26
John Lounsbery Letterhead
Box 7, Folder 27
Dick Lucas Christmas Card, 1968
Box 7, Folder 28
The Marvelous Platen Press of G. P. Gordon, 1967
Physical Description: (proofs, sketches)
Note
Oversized sketches in map drawer.
Box 7, Folder 29
Meals on Wheels Brochure
Physical Description: (sketches, proofs, ms)
Box 7, Folder 30
Meals on Wheels Volunteer's Brochure 1969
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
Box 7, Folder 31
Meals on Wheels, 1968
Physical Description: (dummy, paste-up, sketch, galley)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 7, Folder 32
George Montalvo Letterhead
Box 7, Folder 33
Polly Nicoll, 1969
Physical Description: (brochure for exhibit)
Box 7, Folder 34
Jim and Kay Paul Letterhead
Box 7, Folder 35
Piscator and the Angler's Wish, 1967 (Izaak Walton)
Physical Description: (proofs)
Box 7, Folder 36
Poems, 1970 (Terri Ryland)
Physical Description: (mock-up, galley proofs)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 7, Folder 37
Restful Reading, 1968
Physical Description: (sketches, ms, dummy)
Note
Oversized sketches in map drawer.
Box 7, Folder 38
Clint and Sylvia Roemer Change of Address Cards
Note
Oversized sketch in Box 10.
Box 7, Folder 39
Dolores Rogers Invoices
Note
Oversized sketch in Box 10.
Box 7, Folder 40
Dolores Rogers Business Cards and Price Schedule Changes, 1969
Box 7, Folder 41
A Sharp Criticism of 19th Century Letter-Forms, 1969 (A. J. Corrigan)
Physical Description: (proofs, sketches)
Box 7, Folder 42
Society of Subdivision Appraisers Letterhead
Box 7, Folder 43
Some Fond Memories of a Boy Printer, 1968 (Vance Gerry)
Physical Description: (page proofs, sketches, ms, dummy)
Note
Oversized sketches in Box 10.
Box 7, Folder 44
Some Fond Memories of a Boy Printer, 1970, 2nd edition (Vance Gerry)
Physical Description: (mock-up, dummy, page proofs, paste
up, ms)
Box 7, Folder 45
Summer Impressions and Other Poems, 1968 (Walt Stanchfield)
Box 7, Folder 46
To A Mouse, 1967 (Robert Burns)
Physical Description: (sketches, proofs)
Box 7, Folder 47
Type (Vance Gerry)
Physical Description: (sketches, proofs, dummy, ms)
Note
Oversized sketches in Box 10.
Box 7, Folder 48
The Typographical Howitzer, 1968 (Samuel Davis)
Physical Description: (dummy, paste-up)
Note
Oversized sketch in map drawer.
Box 7, Folder 49
David Thompson Letterhead
Physical Description: (proof, paste-up, designs)
Box 7, Folder 51
Vaporisms, 1967 (Roy Williams)
Physical Description: (dummy, galley and page proofs, copyright letter, sketches)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer. Sketches in Box 10.
Box 7, Folder 52
A Visit From Saint Nicholas, 1966 (Clement C. Moore)
Physical Description: (dummy, proofs)
Box 7, Folder 53
Weather Bird Press Catalog of Books, 1967
Physical Description: (dummy, paste-up, write-up)
Box 7, Folder 54
Weather Bird Press Catalog of Books, 1969
Physical Description: (mock-up, dummy, galley proofs)
Box 7, Folder 55
Ralph Wright Christmas Card, 1968
Proofs, sketches, correspondence, and dummy: 1985-1986.
Box 8, Folder 1
Fine Print Catalog, 1986 (Zeitlin and Ver Brugge);
Gatsby, 1986 (J. P. Devine)
Physical Description: (galley proofs, correspondence)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 8, Folder 3A
On the Illustrating of Books, 1986 (Edward Ardizzone)
Physical Description: (mock-up, text, pattern for cover, correspondence with Laura Cecil, page proofs)
Note
Oversized papers illustrations and galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 8, Folder 3B
On the Illustrating of Books
Physical Description: (dummy, signature proofs)
Box 8, Folder 4
Pasadena Centennial Map
Physical Description: (maps, sketches)
Note
Oversized sketches in Box 10.
Box 8, Folder 5
Ward Ritchie, His Printing and His Books,
Physical Description: (cover sketch, copy of second draft ms)
Box 8, Folder 6A
The San Pasqual Press, 1986 (Vance Gerry)
Note
Oversized papers in map drawer.
Note
(ms suggestions by Dorothy Bevis and Andrew Rolle).
Box 8, Folder 6B
The San Pasqual Press
Physical Description: (proofs and ms)
Box 8, Folder 6C
The San Pasqual Press
Physical Description: (correspondence and ms)
Box 8, Folder 6D
The San Pasqual Press
Physical Description: (dummy, mock-up, text, slides, negatives, photographs)
Box 8, Folder 7
South Pasadena, A Centennial History 1888-1988, (Jane Apostol)
Physical Description: (galley and page proofs)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 8, Folder 8A
The Standing and the Waiting, 1985 (M. F. K. Fisher)
Physical Description: (pochoir samples, signature proofs)
Box 8, Folder 8B
The Standing and the Waiting
Physical Description: (galley proofs, page proofs)
Note
Galley proofs in map drawer.
Box 8, Folder 8C
The Standing and the Waiting
Physical Description: (typography)
Box 8, Folder 8D
The Standing and the Waiting
Physical Description: (prospectus)
Box 8, Folder 8E
The Standing and the Waiting
Physical Description: (correspondence)
Box 8, Folder 8F
The Standing and the Waiting
Physical Description: (illustrations, dummy, pochoir)
Box 8, Folder 9
Envelopes with Weather Bird Press labels
Note
ncludes labels for books and labels from the Peach Pit Press.
Oversized Illustrations in Box Nine.
Box 1, Folder 4
Hearty Fare: A Gentleman's Cookery Book
Box 2, Folder 5
Dawson's Book Shop Tokens
Box 2, Folder 7
Goodbye: E.G. Lindner Company
Box 2, Folder 15
Seaside Plants of Southern California
Box 4, Folder 1J
The Art and Antiquity of Cookery in the Middle Ages
Box 4, Folder 2
A Bibliophile's Los Angeles
Box 4, Folder 11
Ward Ritchie's 75th Birthday Invitation
Box 4, Folder 14
Weather Bird Press, Catalog of Books, 1972
Box 4, Folder 16
Weather Bird Press #4, 1978
Box 4, Folder 18
Weather Bird Press, Catalog of Books, 1985-86
Box 4, Folder 19
Western Books Exhibition, 1973
Box 5, Folder 5B
The Day the Pig Fell into the Well
Oversized Illustrations in Box Ten.
Box 6, Folder 7
Distributing Type or Just the Art of Throwing In
Box 6, Folder 12B
Ernest A. Lindner Collection of Antique Printing Machinery
Box 6, Folder 14
Miniatures On Modern Artists
Box 6, Folder 18
Spring Barley, Poems of he Santa Ynez Valley
Box 6, Folder 24
Weather Bird Press Books, 1974
Box 7, Folder 4
The Boy's Book of Fireworks
Box 7, Folder 10
Citizens for Stevenson Campaign
Box 7, Folder 38
Clint and Sylvia Roemer Cards
Box 7, Folder 43
Some Fond Memories of a Boy Printer
Binder of Gerry's tax returns, expenses, and statements in Box Eleven.
Ephemera.
Scope and Content Note
These items are stored in the ephemera box, in chronological order unless otherwise
noted.
Box 12
Gerry, Vance.
Vance Gerry & the Weather Bird Press: has moved to a new address... , Fallbrook, CA : Weather Bird Press [196-?].
Physical Description: 4 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches.
Box 12
The Marvelous Platen Jobber of George Phineas Gordon. South Laguna, CA: Weather Bird Press, 1967.
Physical Description: Broadside, 12 x 19 inches. Linoleum cuts.
Box 12
Davis, Sam.
The Typographical Howitzer. [South Laguna, CA]: Weather Bird Press, 1968.
Physical Description: Prospectus, single sheet. 4 x 6 3/4 inches.
Box 12
The Ernest A. Lindner Collection of Antique Printing Machinery. Pasadena, CA: Weather Bird Press, 1971.
Physical Description: Three different prospectuses: 2 letterpress, 1 offset.
Physical Description: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches and 5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches.
Box 12
Bailey, Dan and Bailey, Betty.
The Everyday Gourmet. Pasadena, CA: Weather Bird Press, 1973.
Physical Description: Prospectus, single sheet. 6 x 9 inches.
Box 12
Gerry, Vance.
A Message: to Authors, Editors, Artists. A message from your publisher. [Pasadena, CA]: Weather Bird Press, 1973.
Physical Description: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 4 leaves.
Box 12
Stanchfield, Walt.
A Book of Wood Cuts. Pasadena, CA: Weather Bird Press, 1973.
Physical Description: Prospectus. 6 x 9 inches.
Physical Description: Two copies.
Box 12
Stanchfield, Walt.
Spring Barley: Poems of the Santa Ynez Valley. Pasadena, CA: Weather Bird Press, 1974.
Physical Description: Prospectus. 6 x 9 inches. Linoleum cuts.
Box 12
Weather Bird Press Books, Fall 1974. Pasadena, CA: Weather Bird Press, 1974.
Physical Description: Single sheet, 11 1/4 x 17 1/2 inches.
Box 12
Grant Dahlstrom: Master Printer. Los Angeles: New Ampersand Press, 1978.
Physical Description: Prospectus (2 copies) and invitation. 8 1/2 x 14 inches and 5 x 6 1/2 inches.
Box 12
Lucky, Rochelle.
A Treatise on the Art and Antiquity of Cookery in the Middle Ages. [Fallbrook, CA] : Weather Bird Press, [1978].
Physical Description: Prospectus cover. Linoleum cut. 6 x 8 1/2 inches.
Box 12
Le Guin, Ursula K.
Torrey Pines Reserve. Northridge, CA:Lord John Press, 1980.
Physical Description: Broadside, 20 x 13 inches. Linoleum cut illustration.
Physical Description: Number 42 of 150 copies.
Box 12
Wayzgoose: Los Angeles September 1980. [Fallbrook, CA] : Weather Bird Press, 1980.
Physical Description: 3 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches.
Box 12
Zeitlin and Ver Brugge.
Paul Landacre & Arthur Millier. 1981.
Physical Description: Prospectus designed by Vance Gerry.
Physical Description: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches.
Box 12
Zeitlin & Ver Brugge.
Paul Landacre Wood-engravings. [1981?].
Physical Description: Prospectus designed by Vance Gerry.
Physical Description: 8 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches folded to 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches.
Box 12
Duensing, Paul Hayden.
A Letter Harvest: from a typographic traipse through the typefounding vineyards of modern Europe. [Pasadena, CA : Weather Bird Press], 1984.
Physical Description: Cover for invitation. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches.
Box 12
Honoring Ward Ritchie on his 75th Birthday. [Pasadena, CA : Weather Bird Press, 1985].
Physical Description: Invitation. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches.
Box 12
Weather Bird Press: Books in Print [1985]. Pasadena, CA: Weather Bird Press, 1985.
Physical Description: Broadside, 13 1/4 x 18 3/4 inches. Linoleum cuts.
Box 12
Weather Bird Press: Books for Fall 1975. Pasadena, CA: Weather Bird Press, 1985.
Physical Description: Single sheet, 11 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches.
Box 12
Apostol, Jane.
South Pasadena 1888-1988 : A Centennial History. South Pasadena, CA : South Pasadena Public Library, 1987.
Physical Description: Dust jacket (designed by Vance Gerry). 27 x 40 inches (3 up), 14 x 28 inches (one up).
Note
*stored in map drawer
Physical Description: Blueline proof sheet, 11 1/4 x 27 inches.
Physical Description: Three sketches for jacket on tracing paper 4 x 9 1/2 inches.
Box 12
Imaginary Map of the Cookery Book World. Perris, CA: [Weather Bird Press?], 1988.
Physical Description: Single sheet, 22 x 15 inches. Linoleum cuts and type printed in three colors.
Physical Description: Number 7 of 40 copies.
Note
*stored in map drawer
Box 12
Books from the Weather Bird Press [1989]. Pasadena, CA: Weather Bird Press, 1989.
Physical Description: Broadside, 11 x 17 inches. Linoleum cuts.
Box 12
Arundel Antiquarian Books announces an exhibition of the Weather Bird Press: Including a selection of miscellany pertaining
to the press.
[Pasadena, CA : Weather Bird Press, 1992].
Physical Description: Announcement. 7 1/2 x 16 inches.
Box 12
Cliff Buckwheat. Selected Shore Plants of Southern California. Pasadena, CA: Weather Bird Press, 1992.
Physical Description: Illustration and description of
Eriogonum.
Physical Description: Prospectus with insert. 11 x 15 inches and 10 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches.
Box 12
Richardson, Charles Leland.
Seaside Plants of Southern California: Selected Shore Plants of Southern California. Pasadena, CA: Weather Bird Press, 1992.
Physical Description: Illustration and description of bladderpod.
Physical Description: Prospectus with insert. 11 x 15 inches and 10 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches.
Box 12
Gerry, Vance.
25 Years of the Weather Bird Press. [Pasadena, CA] : Weather Bird Press, 1993.
Physical Description: Prospectus postcard. 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches.
Box 12
John, Tom, & James. "Keepsake for Conclave XII Lorson's books Gerry fecit 1994." Pasadena, CA : [Weather Bird Press], 1994.
Physical Description: 1 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches.
Box 12
Zeitlin & Ver Brugge.
Anders Aldrin, Color Woodcuts Catalogue.
Physical Description: Designed by Vance Gerry.
Physical Description: 9 x 24 inches folded to 6 x 9 inches.
Oversized galley proofs and illustrations.
Note
These items are stored in the in the Weather Bird Press map drawer.
A Series of Woodcuts, 1973 (Walt Stanchfield)
Physical Description: (copies of woodcuts, galley proofs)
Food and Drink Series 3-
Mission
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
Food and Drink Series 5-
Vegetable Soup
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
Food and Drink Series 6-
Plum Pudding
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
House Olson, Printer
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
Four Weeds
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
A Letter From the Mark Twain Concerning the Paige Compositor
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
The National Pastime
Physical Description: (galley proofs and sketch)
Nine Poems from Los Angeles
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
Wilfred Owen and Dale Barnhart
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
Selected War Poems of Wilfred Owen
Physical Description: (linoleum prints)
Weather Bird Press catalog, 1983
Physical Description: (galley proofs and linoleum prints)
Weather Bird Press #8, 1982
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
Weather Bird Press #9, 1983
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
Western Books Exhibition, 40th
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
The Art and Antiquity of Cooking in the Middle Ages
Physical Description: (galley proofs and illustrations)
The Black Cat
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
Christmas Eve at Bower's Farm
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
The Everyday Gourmet
Physical Description: (galley proofs and illustrations)
Some Letters Concerning D. H. Lawrence
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
Weather Bird Press, Catalog of Books, 1972
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
Weather Bird Press, Catalog of Books, 1973
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
American Society of Bookplate Collectors and Designers
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
The Day the Pig Fell into the Well
Physical Description: (galley proofs and illustrations)
D. H. Lawrence drawings
Physical Description: (sketches)
Out of the West
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
A Tussie Mussie
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
Hancock Heart Valve Prosthesis
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
Distributing Type or Just the Art of Throwing In
Physical Description: (galley proofs and illustrations)
G. B. Piranesi: Etchings
Physical Description: (galley proofs and illustrations)
Miniatures on Modern Artists
Physical Description: (illustrations)
Spring Barley
Physical Description: (illustrations and galley proofs)
Weather Bird press #3
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
Ernest A. Lindner Collection of Antique Printing Machinery
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
H. Richard Archer, Secretary
The Boy's Book of Fireworks
John Gerry and his Descendants
Physical Description: (galley proofs, halftones)
David Hitchcock for Tax Collector
Physical Description: (repros)
Meals on Wheels
Physical Description: (galley proofs)
The Marvelous Platen Press of G. P. Gordon
Physical Description: (illustration)
Restful Reading
Physical Description: (illustration)
The Typographical Howitzer
On the Illustrating of Books
Physical Description: (illustrations, galley proofs)
The Standing and the Waiting
The San Pasqual Press
Physical Description: (illustrations, galley proofs)
Miscellanany.
Note
(In flat ephemera box)
Executive Committee of the Library Patrons of Occidental College, Spring Meeting, 1985.
Note
Designed and printed by Vance Gerry.
Wedding Announcement, 1985.
Note
Designed and printed by Vance Gerry.
Two postcards designed by Vance Gerry for Jeff Weber, Rare Books.
One printed for Patrick Reagh, using Gerry's linoleum cut.
One from Gerry to John Bidwell using Lewis Carleton Ryan linoleum cut.
One blank with engraving of a bird.
Two Weather Bird Press envelopes.
One wrapper with Weather Bird Press label.
Two calendar pages with linoleum cuts.
Our First Half Century: Two hundred and Fifty Find Books Typical of Our Stock During the Past Fifty Years. Fallbrook, CA: Weather Bird Press, 1978.
Physical Description: Paste-up for cover, mounted on illustration board. 8 1/2 x 12 inches.
Woodcut block of Clark Library owl.
Box Miscellany 1
Jazz, Vol. 1.
1948-1949
Scope and Content Note
Hand-made album of jazz records by Gerry and his friends. Gift from Jeff Weber, 2008.
Vance Gerry Books.
Note
Shelved with the Weather Bird Press Archives, Clark Library
Chili : being a Texas recipe / by Danny Alguire. X9 261 3PRESS
Note
[Pasadena] : [Weather Bird Press], [199-?].
Food and Drink Series : 8
The First Thanksgiving : from his book of Plymouth plantation II / William Bradford 1590-1657. X9 261 3PRESS
Note
[South Laguna, CA] : Weather Bird Press, 1968.
Miniature Books [catalogue]. [Dawson's Book Shop] : Los Angeles, 1986. X9 261 3PRESS
Note
Illustration by Vance Gerry.
Gatsby / by J. P. Devine. Pasadena, CA : Weather Bird Press, 1986. X9 261 3PRESS
Note
Clark has two copies.
Note
"500 copies of this broadside have been printed at the Weather Bird Press for
distribution at the Annual Joint meeting of the Zamorano-Roxburghe Clubs in Los Angeles,
October 25th & 26th, 1986. 100 are for distribution to the Rounce & Coffin Club.
And 100 for the friends of Jake and Josephine Zeitlin."--Colophon.
Cratchit's Christmas feast : excerpted from a Christmas carol / by Charles Dickens. Pasadena : Vance Gerry [Weather Bird Press],
1988
X9 261 3PRESS
Note
"50 copies for Christmas 1988."--Colophon
Gerry, Vance. >Machine faces. Pasadena, CA : Weather Bird Press, [198-?]. X9 261 3PRESS
Restful reading for young & old : designed to banish care and alleviate cynicism
decorously illustrated with cuts. South Laguna : V. Gerry / Weather Bird Press, 1968.
X9 261 3PRESS
Note
Compiled by the press [i.e. Vance Gerry]. Cf. 25 years of the Weather Bird Press.
Type / Vance Gerry. South Laguna : Vance Gerry / Weather Bird Press, [196-?]. X9 261 3PRESS
With rue my heart is laden / A. E. Housman. [South Laguna, CA]
X9 261 3PRESS
Note
Weather Bird Press, [196-?].
A Machine invented upon mature consideration of mechanick powers deducted from geometrick principles. X9 261 3PRESS
Note
[Fallbrook, CA : V. Gerry / Weather Bird Press, 1978]. Clark has two copies.
"This keepsake was compiled for the occasion of the first public showing of this Common
Press at the Eleventh California Antiquarian book fair in Los Angeles, February, 1978."
Recipe for salad (a rhyme) / by Sydney Smith. [Fallbrook, CA] : Weather Bird Press, 1980.
X9 261 3PRESS
Note
Clark has two copies.
Food & Drink Series : 1
Stillmeadow Christmas : excerpts from her book
Stillmeadow Seasons / by Gladys Taber. [Fallbrook, CA] : V. Gerry [Weather Bird Press], 1980.
X9 261 3PRESS
A letter from Mark Twain concerning the Paige compositor. Pasadena : Weather Bird Press,
1982
X9 261 3PRESS
Note
"200 copies 100 are for the members of the Rounce & Coffin Club."--Colophon.
Borsch being a Russian recipe / by Vasilly Davidovich. [Pasadena] : Weather Bird Press, [198?]. X9 261 3PRESS
Piscator and The anglers wish : in which Piscator recites The anglers wish : being an
excerpt from The compleat angler, 1653 / by Izaak Walton. South Laguna, [CA] : V. Gerry,
Weather Bird Press, 1967
X9 261 3PRESS
Catalog number 25 : medicine and the life sciences : C-H / Jeff Weber : rare books. Glendale, CA : [Jeff Weber], 1993. X9 261 3PRESS
Note
Cover drawing and design by Vance Gerry.
Catalogue 26 : the sciences / Jeff Weber: rare books. Glendale, CA : [Jeff Weber], 1993. X9 261 3PRESS
Note
Cover design by Vance Gerry.
Catalogue one -summer 1988 : fore-edge paintings from the collection of Estelle Doheny
with additions / Jeff Weber : rare books. Glendale, CA : [Jeff Weber], 1988.
X9 261 3PRESS
Note
Two drawings by Vance Gerry.
Christmas night in the castle of the forest Sauvage : excerpted from T. H. White's The sword in the stone. [Glendale, CA]
: Vance Gerry [Weather Bird Press], 1982.
X9 261 3PRESS
Note
"100 copies printed for Christmas greetings, 1982."--Colophon
Fine books and bindings for the winter solstice [catalogue]. Los Angeles : [Zeitlin
& Ver Brugge], 1986.
X9 261 3PRESS
Note
Catalogue design by Vance Gerry.