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# 1: Fine Press Time Machine, 1975 (Vol. 1, Nos. 1 &2)
# 2: Fine Print Time Machine. Vol. 1, Nos. 3 & 4, 1975.
# 3: Fine Print Time Machine. Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1976.
# 4: Fine Print Time Machine. Vol. 2, No. 2, Aprile1976.
# 5: Fine Print Time Machine. Vol. 2, No. 3, July 1976.
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The lead article in this issue was The Book as an Aesthetic Object (Part 1) by David Greenwood, an essay written around 1930 when Mr. Greenwood was allied to the San Francisco printing world. Edited by Linnea Gentry. Part 2 appeared in the January, 1977 issue (Vol. 3, No. 1), q. v.
Selected Books
Oyez Press, Berkeley, CA. William Everson. River-Root / A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States. 1976. 12½ x 9¾ in.; 50 pp; illus. by Patrick Kennedy. Designed by Thomas Whittridge; printed at The Watsonville Press. Types were Goudy Modern and Spectrum Italic cast by MacKenzie & Harris. Binding by Cardoza-James of SF. 250 copies: 200 for sale, each numbered and signed by author. Qtr leather with gray paper boards, $30.
Artichoke Press, Mountain View, CA. Wynn Bullock / The Photograph as Symbol. 1976. 33-5/8 x 10 in; 33 pp. Illus. With 6 monochrome reproductions of photographs of Wynn Bullock by Jim Hill. ½ bound in deep blue leather with French marbled paper boards in slipcase. 200 copies designed, printed and bound by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press. Printed on Fabriano handmade paper in Janson types with Weiss initials. Each copy initialed by Bullock and signed by printer.
Ettan Press, Del Mar, CA. K’Ehgosone. Texts of Native American translated from the original languages of Ines Talamantez; with 8 color etchings by Cornelia von Mengerhausen, numbered and signed by the artist; and a phonograph record of music by Thüring Bram: “Flexagon” and “Children Songs of the American Indian.” 45 numbered 1-45; six additional copie I-VI were printed for the authors and the publisher. Handset and printed in Spectrum by Wesley Tanner, Berkeley, California; binding by H. Halbach, Konigstein i. T., W. Germany. 14-7/8 x 11¼ in., 56 pp loose in white folder. Enclosed in fall-down-back box of white suede with inlaid strip of Indian weaving on upper cover. Inside lining of earthy colored craft boards. Slip-in case for record fitted inside lower cover; $900.
The Freehand Press, London, England. David Mycroft. First Folio. 10 poems. Etchings by Jessica Mycroft. 50 signed & numbered copies; handset in 16/18 pt. Bembo narrow italic printed on dampened Bockingford paper on an Albion hand press. 19¼ x a8-3/8 in.; 10 loose sheets in white paper folder; numbered & signed etching at head or foot of poem on each sheet; sheets slip into a black cloth portfolio. £50 or $88.50 plus $6.00 for postage.
William James Association, Santa Cruz, CA. A Little Rebellion Now & Then. Prospectus here. Broadsides from various presses.
W. Thomas Taylor, Austin, TX. Christopher Middleton. Razzmatazz. (poem). 1976. 10½ x 6¾ in; 15 pp. Designed and printed by Gregory Holman with title in red Hadriano Stone Cut. Each wrapper is hand decorated in a different bold design using colored ink. 250 signed copies. $17.50.
New Presses
Daniel W. Perepelitza, Nahant, Mass. He was establishing his press to “create volumes on maritime history in which I can combine my etchings and wood engravings with typography.”
Linnea Gentry associate editor of FINE PRINT, and Will Powers, formerly with The Stinehour Press of Vermont and the Plantin Press of Los Angeles, have joined forces to establish Amaranth Press, a fine letterpress & design printing office in San Francisco.
The Freehand Press, a partnership formed in London by architect-printmaker Jessica Mycroft and journalist Richard Boulton. (See above.)
Notes
The Black Rock Press of the Univ. of Nevada Library, Reno, had for sale four reams of English handmade paper especially made for the Press by St. Cuthbert’s Mill to specs established by The Allen Press. 17 ½ x 27 in, unwatermarked, wove, soft-sized printing, boarded finish, cream, at $172/ream.
Tennessee Williams’ letters to Donald Windham, 1940; introduction and notes by Windham; 350 pp. 526 copies printed by Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona; in linen slipcase, $50. Available from S. Campbell, 230 Central Park S., NY. Also available, E. M. Forster’s Letters to Donald Windham, $17.50.
# 1: Fine Press Time Machine, 1975 (Vol. 1, Nos. 1 &2)
# 2: Fine Print Time Machine. Vol. 1, Nos. 3 & 4, 1975.
# 3: Fine Print Time Machine. Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1976.
# 4: Fine Print Time Machine. Vol. 2, No. 2, Aprile1976.
# 5: Fine Print Time Machine. Vol. 2, No. 3, July 1976.
=========
The lead article in this issue was The Book as an Aesthetic Object (Part 1) by David Greenwood, an essay written around 1930 when Mr. Greenwood was allied to the San Francisco printing world. Edited by Linnea Gentry. Part 2 appeared in the January, 1977 issue (Vol. 3, No. 1), q. v.
Selected Books
Oyez Press, Berkeley, CA. William Everson. River-Root / A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States. 1976. 12½ x 9¾ in.; 50 pp; illus. by Patrick Kennedy. Designed by Thomas Whittridge; printed at The Watsonville Press. Types were Goudy Modern and Spectrum Italic cast by MacKenzie & Harris. Binding by Cardoza-James of SF. 250 copies: 200 for sale, each numbered and signed by author. Qtr leather with gray paper boards, $30.
Artichoke Press, Mountain View, CA. Wynn Bullock / The Photograph as Symbol. 1976. 33-5/8 x 10 in; 33 pp. Illus. With 6 monochrome reproductions of photographs of Wynn Bullock by Jim Hill. ½ bound in deep blue leather with French marbled paper boards in slipcase. 200 copies designed, printed and bound by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press. Printed on Fabriano handmade paper in Janson types with Weiss initials. Each copy initialed by Bullock and signed by printer.
Ettan Press, Del Mar, CA. K’Ehgosone. Texts of Native American translated from the original languages of Ines Talamantez; with 8 color etchings by Cornelia von Mengerhausen, numbered and signed by the artist; and a phonograph record of music by Thüring Bram: “Flexagon” and “Children Songs of the American Indian.” 45 numbered 1-45; six additional copie I-VI were printed for the authors and the publisher. Handset and printed in Spectrum by Wesley Tanner, Berkeley, California; binding by H. Halbach, Konigstein i. T., W. Germany. 14-7/8 x 11¼ in., 56 pp loose in white folder. Enclosed in fall-down-back box of white suede with inlaid strip of Indian weaving on upper cover. Inside lining of earthy colored craft boards. Slip-in case for record fitted inside lower cover; $900.
The Freehand Press, London, England. David Mycroft. First Folio. 10 poems. Etchings by Jessica Mycroft. 50 signed & numbered copies; handset in 16/18 pt. Bembo narrow italic printed on dampened Bockingford paper on an Albion hand press. 19¼ x a8-3/8 in.; 10 loose sheets in white paper folder; numbered & signed etching at head or foot of poem on each sheet; sheets slip into a black cloth portfolio. £50 or $88.50 plus $6.00 for postage.
William James Association, Santa Cruz, CA. A Little Rebellion Now & Then. Prospectus here. Broadsides from various presses.
W. Thomas Taylor, Austin, TX. Christopher Middleton. Razzmatazz. (poem). 1976. 10½ x 6¾ in; 15 pp. Designed and printed by Gregory Holman with title in red Hadriano Stone Cut. Each wrapper is hand decorated in a different bold design using colored ink. 250 signed copies. $17.50.
New Presses
Daniel W. Perepelitza, Nahant, Mass. He was establishing his press to “create volumes on maritime history in which I can combine my etchings and wood engravings with typography.”
Linnea Gentry associate editor of FINE PRINT, and Will Powers, formerly with The Stinehour Press of Vermont and the Plantin Press of Los Angeles, have joined forces to establish Amaranth Press, a fine letterpress & design printing office in San Francisco.
The Freehand Press, a partnership formed in London by architect-printmaker Jessica Mycroft and journalist Richard Boulton. (See above.)
Notes
The Black Rock Press of the Univ. of Nevada Library, Reno, had for sale four reams of English handmade paper especially made for the Press by St. Cuthbert’s Mill to specs established by The Allen Press. 17 ½ x 27 in, unwatermarked, wove, soft-sized printing, boarded finish, cream, at $172/ream.
Tennessee Williams’ letters to Donald Windham, 1940; introduction and notes by Windham; 350 pp. 526 copies printed by Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona; in linen slipcase, $50. Available from S. Campbell, 230 Central Park S., NY. Also available, E. M. Forster’s Letters to Donald Windham, $17.50.
