Title=OF BOOKMEN & PRINTERS, A GATHERING OF MEMORIES.
Ritchie, Ward OF BOOKMEN & PRINTERS, A GATHERING OF MEMORIES.
With a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Los Angeles Dawsons (1989) 8vo. cloth backed boards. 189 pages. Limited to 500 copies. Designed by Ward Ritchie. A marvelous account by this great printer. Includes chapters on the Ashendene Press, Jake Zeitlin, Lawrence Clark Powell, the Grabhorn's Press, Paul Landacre, etc. Price: $ 50.00
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Order nr. 27139
Ritchie, Ward OF BOOKMEN & PRINTERS, A GATHERING OF MEMORIES. With a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell.
Los Angeles Dawson's Book Shop (1989) 8vo. cloth backed boards. 189 pages. Limited to 500 copies. Designed and written by the great printer, Ward Ritchie, this work contains many reminiscences of book collectors, book artists, bookmen and printers many of which are notable and recognizable figures in the world of fine books.
These stories include the Los Angeles booksellers of the Great
Depression and the formation of the Zamorano Club, bookseller Jake Zeitlin, artist and wood engraver Paul Landacre, eccentric book designer Merle Armitage, poet Robinson Jeffers, Jane Grabhorn's irreverent wit and whimsical creations which colored her days at the Grabhorn Press; Ward's apprenticeship with Francois-Louis Schmied, the preeminent Parisian book printer and artist of the 1920s and 30's; music composer John Cage, C.H. St. John Hornby of the Ashendene Press, Ritchie's boyhood friend and former librarian and dean of the Library School at UCLA, Lawrence Clark Powell; and last of all, but not least, the indviduals and colorful history of once wealthy and sophisticated Virginia City. Distributed for Dawson's Book Shop by Oak Knoll Press. Price: $ 50.00
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Order nr. 47016
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