Of bookmen & printers : a gathering of memories, by Ward Ritchie

Resource Information

The instance Of bookmen & printers : a gathering of memories, by Ward Ritchie represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.

Label

Of bookmen & printers : a gathering of memories, by Ward Ritchie

Title remainder

a gathering of memories

Statement of responsibility

by Ward Ritchie

Instantiates

• Of bookmen & printers : a gathering of memories

Publication

• Los Angeles, Calif., Dawsons, c1989

Note

• Revisions of articles previously published
• "Five hundred copies ... were printed"--Colophon

Contents

For Ward a foreword / by Lawrence Clark Powell -- A bookman's Los Angeles in the 1930s -- Jake Zeitlin, when he was joyous young -- Paul Landacre, artist and wood engraver -- Merle Armitage, his many loves and varied lives -- Robinson Jeffers, recollections of the poet -- Jane Grabhorn, the roguish printer of the Jumbo Press -- Paris adventure with Franc̜ois-Louis Schmied -- John Cage, the maniac of music -- St. John Hornby and the Ashendene Press -- A requiem for Lawrence Clark Powell -- Virginia City and the genesis of a cookbook

Dimensions

25 cm.

Extent

189 p.

Isbn

9780870932755

Lccn

90117107

Note

• Spec. Coll. copy 1: No.29 of a limited edition of 50 copies with binding by D'Ambrosio; signed by Ward Ritchie and Lawrence Clark Powell. Gray linen over rust printed boards. Upper board bound with cut-out gray linen capital R. In rust and gray case. Purchase, Dawson's Bookshop, 1990.
• Spec. Coll. copy 2: Quarter bound in black cloth, stamped in gilt on spine; illustrated tan paper over boards. Purchase,
• Clark Library has 4 copies. One copy with variant spine title (Press coll. Ritchie), one copy numbered A.P., with binding by D'Ambrosio; one copy gift of Ward Ritchie, 1996; and a fourth copy inscribed by Ritchie to Joel Harvey and given to the Clark Library in 2004 by Marian Harvey in memory of Joel Harvey.

Record ID

2713824

System control number

• (OCoLC)21161561
• ucoclc21161561