GPH: An Informal Record of George P. Hammond and His Era in the Bancroft Library by Morgan, Dale L.; Rey, Agapito; Camp, Charles L.; Becker, Robert H.; Burke, Robert E.; Howell, Warren R.; Dakin, Susanna Bryant; Holliday, J. S.; Scholes, France V.; Hammond, George P.; Fraquhar, Francis P - 1965

Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, 1965. First edition. Keepsake number 13. 119pp. Octavo [25.5 cm] Rust colored cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine. Designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Signed by Hammond beneath the frontispiece. Contains the Morgan essay GPH. George P. Hammond was director of the Bancroft Library from 1946 to 1965 and was responsible for directing much of the institution's growth, especially in its significant holdings. He was also an historian of California and the Southwest. The book includes essays on various aspects of his professional life and tenure at the Bancroft as well as an annotated bibliography of his published writings. Morgan's contribution was an expansion of his biographical article on Hammond in The Pacific Historian. Saunders 51.

Berkeley, CA:: Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California,, 1965.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in rust-colored cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, and a facsimile of GPH's initials on the front cover (some pages still unopened.) . First printing. Published to as a celebration of Hammond's nineteen-year tenure as Director of the Bancroft Library at the University of California. Contributors include Dale L. Morgan, Agapito Rey, Charles L Camp, Robert H. Becker, Warren R. Howell, Robert E. Burke, J. S. Holliday and others..Includes a bibliography of George P. Hammond's writings and as well as reprinting his first published work. Frontispiece portrait, 10 additional sepia-toned pages of reproductions, plates and portraits. Keepsake Number 13, designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. xiii, 119 pp.