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Allen Press records, 1949-1990.
BANC MSS 83/68 c [no longer in use]; BANC MSS 77/119 c carton 1; BANC MSS 77/119 c carton 2; BANC MSS 77/119 c oversize box 1 ; ...
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Collection Overview

Title:

Allen Press records, 1949-1990

Creator/Contributor:

Allen Press, creator

Abstract:

Correspondence, drafts, clippings, notes, covers, announcements, and designs for publications concerning the works of such writers as Jane and Robert Grabhorn, Gertrude Atherton, William Caxton, Joseph Conrad, Euripides, Henry James, Thomas Mann, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edith Wharton, John Dryden and others.

Date:

1949 (issued)

Subject:

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Grabhorn, Jane Bissell
Grabhorn, Robert
Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn -- 1857-1948
Caxton, William -- approximately 1422-1491 or 1492
Conrad, Joseph -- 1857-1924
Euripides
Wharton, Edith -- 1862-1937
Dryden, John -- 1631-1700
Mann, Thomas -- 1875-1955
Robbe-Grillet, Alain -- 1922-2008
James, Henry -- 1843-1916
Stevenson, Robert Louis -- 1850-1894
Poe, Edgar Allan -- 1809-1849
Allen Press -- Archives
Small press books -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Book industries and trade -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Printing presses -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Printers -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Publishers and publishing -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area

Note:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections.
Allen Press records, BANC MSS 77/119 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Gift; of Dorothy and Lewis Allen; 1994.
Related item: (BANC MSS 70/22 c, Phonotape 203 B).
Related item: (Phonotape 827 C).
Small book press founded by Dorothy and Lewis Allen that produced limited edition, handpress books from 1940-1992. Among the books printed were: The Transposed Heads by Thomas Mann, Quartet: Four Stories by Edith Wharton, Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet, The Fall by Albert Camus, Youth by Joseph Conrad and The Murders at the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe.
In English.

Type:

essay

Physical Description:

print
2 cartons, 1 oversize box (3.5 linear feet)

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC MSS 83/68 c [no longer in use]
BANC MSS 77/119 c carton 1
BANC MSS 77/119 c carton 2
BANC MSS 77/119 c oversize box 1
BANC MSS 77/119 c
BANC MSS 77/119 c

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.

Related Item:

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections.