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A life with books and with Fine print, the review for the arts of the book : oral history transcript / 2001.
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Title:

A life with books and with Fine print, the review for the arts of the book : oral history transcript / 2001

Creator/Contributor:

Kirshenbaum, Sandra, creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

Harlan, Robert D., interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

Italian family background and San Francisco childhood; UC Berkeley B.A., 1959; Carnegie Institute of Technology, MLS, 1960; work as public librarian, cataloguer, antiquarian bookseller; evolution of Fine Print, 1973-1990, to international status; reflections on fine printers Andrew Hoyem, Steve Corey, Herb Kaplan, George Ritchie, Linnea Gentry; thoughts on cover designers and artists, Adrian Wilson, Frances Butler, Sumner Stone, Hermann Zepf; thoughts on fine printing and computer design.

Date:

2001 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Hoyem, Andrew
Corey, D. Steven
Kaplan, Herb
Ritchie, George
Gentry, Linnea -- 1948-
Wilson, Adrian
Butler, Frances
Stone, Sumner -- 1946-
Zepf, Hermann
Printing -- Periodicals
Fine books

Note:

Sandra Kirshenbaum ; interviews conducted by Robert D. Harlan in 1999. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3334 C:1-8.
Also available online.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Volume includes index.

Type:

biography
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
1 v. (vi, 151 p.) : port. ; 29 cm.
8 sound cassettes.

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.