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A Young Printer In San Francisco 1949 by Reid, Robert R - 2007

by Reid, Robert R

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A Young Printer In San Francisco 1949 by Reid, Robert R - 2007

A Young Printer In San Francisco 1949

by Reid, Robert R

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Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey. Fine+. 2007. Limited Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. The edition of 50 signed and numbered copies (8vo, 12 pp) was issued in two states. The Majuscule state (numbers 1-15, this copy being #14) has multiple signatures cased in Reg Lissel's transparent vellum paper, lined with a custom-made sheet of paste paper. These copies feature a frontis printed chine colle and signed by Taylor, and include a photo-etching reproduction of a snapshot of Robert Reid taken en route to San Francisco; In 1949 Robert Reid celebrated inclusion of his first limited-edition book (The Fraser Mines Vindicated) in that year's Rounce & Coffin Club annual book show, by driving down the West Coast to see the exhibition. Along the way he stopped in San Francisco, and during just a few days there, managed to meet a number of the city's printing luminaries: the Grabhorn brothers, Col. Carroll Harris, and perhaps most memorable of all, William Everson, then at work on A Privacy of Speech. This brief account of the trip is written in Reid's customary style effusive for all things printed. Set by hand in 18-pt Perpetua and printed in two colors with our handpress on dampened handmade HM Text paper. The frontis is a specially commissioned contemporary linocut portrait of Robert by Andrea Taylor of Cotton Socks Press ; 8vo; Signed by Author .
  • Bookseller Books Tell You Why, Inc. US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Fine+
  • Edition Limited Edition; First Printing
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Heavenly Monkey
  • Place of Publication Vancouver
  • Date Published 2007

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A Young Printer in San Francisco 1949 [ONE of 15 Copies]
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A Young Printer in San Francisco 1949 [ONE of 15 Copies]

by REID, Robert R

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  • Fine
  • Signed
  • first
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Used - Fine
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Limited Edition
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[Vancouver, BC]: Heavenly Monkey, 2007. Limited Edition. Patterned wraps covered with japonisme paper. Fine. Andrea Taylor. 8vo. Unpaginated. Frontis. linocut portrait of Robert Reid signed and numbered by artist Andrea Taylor. Title page printed in red and black. Sewn and pasted in a limp paper-vellum case. Of 50 copies printed, the first 15 feature the frontis printed chine colle and a photo-etching at the rear. This is copy hand-numbered 11 at the colophon, and similarly numbered by Taylor at the frontis. Additionally, the book is signed by Robert Reid at the colophon. The text concerns Reid's youthful drive from British Columbia to San Francisco to attend the Rounce and Coffin Club's annual award ceremony, which included an Award of Merit for Reid's first book, a reprint of The Fraser Mines Vindicated by Alfred Waddington. During his San Francisco sojourn, Reid met the luminaries of San Francisco's fine press milieu. A superb, fresh copy.
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