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Of bookmen & printers : a gathering of memories /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ritchie, Ward, 1905-1996
Other Authors: Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-2001 (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles, Calif. : Dawsons, [1989]
Subjects:
Ritchie, Ward, > 1905-1996 > Friends and associates.
Book industries and trade > History > 20th century.
Book industries and trade > Employees > Biography.
Printing > History > 20th century.
Printers > Biography.
Ritchie, Ward, > 1905-1996.
Book industries and trade.
Book industries and trade > Employees.
Friendship.
Printers.
Printing.
1900-1999
Biography.
History.
Table of 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.