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Published by William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, 1965
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Approx. 6 1/8" wide by 8 7/8". Title is given as it appears on the title page. On the front cover the wording is merely Moxon, Carey S. Bliss. ; 33 pages.
Published by The Friends of the UCLA Library, Los Angeles, 1980
Seller: Gil's Book Loft, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 10537 shelf. Very slim trade paperback, pale brown covers, unlettered spine. No names, clean text. Frontispiece: photo portrait of Ritchie. With photos of several books he published. 28 p. Book.
Published by Friends of the UCLA Library, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., 1980
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket As Issued. First edition / 1st Printing. First Edition / First Printing. Very good. 14 x 23cm. soft cover. 28pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.
Published by Friends of the UCLA Library, Los Angeles, 1980
First Edition
small octavo, printed wrappers. First Edition. First Edition. small octavo, printed wrappers. ii, 22 pages + 5 pp. Friends of the UCLA Library, A Retrospective Exhibition of his Work as Designer, Printer, and Publisher at the UCLA Library, Occidental College, and William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Frontispiece portrait of Ritchie and several other illustrations. New.
Published by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, Los Angeles, 1961
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Trade Edition; Limited Edition: 1/1000. Octavo, x, 156 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in black cloth with black lettering on off-white paper. Boards have minor rubbings. Text block has minor staining on the head edge. NOTE: Shelved in ND-B. 1376118. FP New Rockville Stock.
Published by Tucson: Truepenny Books,, 1997
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. 93 pp. Light sunning to spine, else near fine in wrappers with printed cover label.
Published by Bookman Publications (1992) First Edition., 1992
Seller: The Bookstall, Richmond, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Black cloth and illustrated paper on boards, with the Ward Ritchie logo. 6 X 9 1/2 inches. Designed by Ward Ritchie. 171 pages. Illustrated with photos and examples. The story of a letterpress printer. Fine.
Published by William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA, 1966
Seller: Craig Olson Books, ABAA/ILAB, Belfast, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Lawrence Clark Powell's last report as Director of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, he retired that same year. Printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon; The Ward Ritchie Press. 75 pp. 8vo. Red paper wraps with the bookplate of William Andrews Clark, Jr., adorning the front cover. Slight scuffing from having been read. Clean within.
Published by Privately Printed, 1993
ISBN 10: 0962561010ISBN 13: 9780962561016
Seller: Craig Olson Books, ABAA/ILAB, Belfast, ME, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 73 pp. 8vo. White pinted paper covers with a repeating green leaf motif, green cloth spine with gold embossed titling. Dust staining to head of text block. Very clean within. No dust jacket as issued.
Published by Anderson Ritchie and Simon, Los Angeles, 1961
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Black Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Illustrations In Text (illustrator). First Edition. One Of 1000 Copies Of This Trade Edition. A Well-Preserved Copy, Just A Touch Of Rubbing, With Light Chipping To Bottom Of Printed Paper Spine Label But No Loss Of Text; Bookplate Of The Rasmussens, Printers In Santa Ana, Ca At The Dragon Bindery And With Their Dragoin Logo At Center.
Published by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon., Los Angeles, California, 1961
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Fine. First Edition. 1000 copies for trade edition. x, 156 pages; illustrations (title pages); indexes; bound in black cloth with paper label on the spine, impression design on the front cover. Introduction by Lawrence C. Powell. Contains: The early years; Anderson & Ritchie; War and post War years; Selective Checklist, 1932-1960; Books printed before 1932; books designed for other presses; bibliography. Fine clean copy.
Published by Bookman Publications (1992), Clifton, NJ, 1992
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Quarter-cloth over pictorial paper-covered boards (hardcover); x,[1]-171pp; includes index. A fine, unread copy. Issued without dustwrapper. The famed book designer and pressman's autobiography, an essential source of information on the mid-20th century California fine press world, including such figures as Lawrence Clark Powell, W.A. Dwiggins, Grant Dahlstrom, the Grabhorns and many others.
Published by The Zamorano Club, Los Angeles, CA, 1961
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition, one of 500 copies. Original publisher's blue paper-covered boards backed with black cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. 6 1/2" x 10." 107 pages, complete. Illustrations in black-and-white and color, complete. Printed on title page: "Published for members of the Grolier Club, by members of the Zamorano Club." Zamorano Club Roster in back. Pages are pristine and intact except for light age toning. Covers are clean and intact overall but have offsetting, fading, and slight rubbing to front and back. Offsetting appears at the corners of the fore-edge on front cover and at the top of the back cover. A Very Good, almost Near Fine copy. A collection of essays by different authors. Contents are listed as follows: "Foreword" by Carl Schaefer Dentzel, "Profile of Los Angeles" by W. W. Robinson, "William Andrews Clark Memorial Library" by Lawrence Clark Powell, "The Honnold Library" by David W. Davies, "Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery" by Robert O. Schad, "The Southwest Museum Library" by Dentzel, "Fine Printing in Southern California" by Ward Ritchie, and "The Zamorano Club, 1927-1961" by Tyrus G. Harmsen." Back colophon: "Five hundred copies of A Bookman's View of Los Angeles published by the Zamorano Club and printed as a joint venture by Saul Marks at the Plantin Press; Gordon Holmquist at the Cole-Homequist Press; Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press. Bound at the Silverlake Bindery, April, 1961.".
Published by Books West Southwest, Tucson, 1993
ISBN 10: 0963296639ISBN 13: 9780963296634
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. #28 of limited copies bound in quarter leather and signed by Powell, Ward Ritchie, and Mark Sanders at rear. Additionally signed by Powell on half-title. Clean, bright, and unused in like slipcase. Signed by Author(s).
Published by A B Bookmans Publications, Clifton, 1992
ISBN 10: 0963431803ISBN 13: 9780963431806
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. Ix, 171 Pp. Black Cloth Over Decorated Boards. Inscribed By The Author To One Of The Foremost South Pasadena Library Volunteers. Fine. With A Program Also Inscribed To Her From A Person Associated With The Library, Also With A Newspaper Clipping Of Ritchie's Obituary From The Los Angeles Times. Inscribed by Author(s).
Published by Truepenny Books / (Northland Press) / (Ward Ritchie Press) 1997 / 1980 / 1938, Tucson / (Flagstaff) / (Los Angeles), 1997
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition of each. Small collection of Ritchie-related items. Includes THE WORK OF WARD RITCHIE, one of 300 copies. A collection of Ritchie's poetry issued by Powell as a farewell to his late, life-long friend. Includes a list of pseudonyms Ritchie used throughout his life and where he used them. Gray paperwraps with unprinted flaps; 96 pages. Prospectus tipped in at rear. WARD RITCHIE, PRINTER, tribute book sponsored by UCLA and Occidental College to accompany a "Retrospective Exhibition" of Ritchie's work at several libraries May 16 through July 31, 1980, designed and letterpress printed by Mark Sanders, tan paperwraps, 22 pages plus illustrations. Includes foreword by Tyrus Harmsen, essays by Ritchie, Powell, Adrian Wilson, et al; illustrated with photographs of a number of publications by Ritchie's press. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS: FALL 1938, oblong stapled brochure with announcements for six publications; measures 5.5 x 4.25"; short split in cover at spine fold. Altogether near fine.
Published by Capra Press, Santa Barbara. An unnumbered copy, signed by Lawrence Clark Powell, and designed Ward Ritchie. [A total of 226 copies]., 1984
ISBN 10: 0884962164ISBN 13: 9780884962168
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Designed by Ward Ritchie; calligraphy by Judy Dietrich; typeset in Palatino by Jim Cook in Santa Barbara; printed for Capra Press by Kingsport Press, Kingsport, Tennessee. 6 1/8 inches x 9 1/4 in., 129 pp. + signed colophon page. Black cloth spine and sides, with titling gilt on spine, tan paper over boards with calligraphic title, tan endpapers. The gilt title is slightly askew on this copy, light wear to spine ends. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Grabhorn Press, (San Francisco, 1962
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition. Limited to 250 copies. Includes Jeffers' previously unpublished poem, "The Epic Stars." A farewell tribute to Jeffers, who died in January 1962, issued to commemorate the joint meeting of the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles and the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco in September that year. Includes tributes by Ritchie, Powell, Judith Anderson, Melba Berry Bennett, et al. 4to plain sewn paperwraps pasted into cream-colored stiff covers with "Robinson Jeffers" in black on front and unprinted envelope-style flaps; 32 pages. Very good to near fine with covers unevenly tanned and showing a touch of light edge creasing.
Published by Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1987
Seller: Craig Olson Books, ABAA/ILAB, Belfast, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A wonderful address by Powell on the joys of books and libraries. Designed by his lifelong friend and collaborator Ward Ritchie and bawdily inscribed to Ritchie's companion, actress and fine press printer Gloria Stuart. Powell grew up with Ward Ritchie (fellow bookman and printer extraordinaire) in Southern California where the two of them were part of an intimate group in the late 1920s and early 1930s that included M.F.K. Fisher, Gloria Stuart and her first husband, sculptor Gordon Newell. Second Printing, 1989. 25 pp. 8vo. Clean, crisp copy with light age toning along spine on rear panel.
Published by Virginia Fitzwater/Norman W. Forgue/Black Cat Press, Woodstock, NY, 1932
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A rare opportunity to purchase a complete run of this pioneering book collecting and book arts journal. Vol. I, consisting of (12) monthly issues (Mar. 1932-Mar. 1933, with one combined "Septober" 1932 issue), 64 pp., total, has been bound in blue buckram showing modest spotting/soiling to both covers, interior fully intact. Vols. II (2) through 4 unbound/loose, with cord bindings, in slightly reduced format. Vol. II consists of (8) issues, numbered 13-20, published from Apr. 1933 through July/Aug. 1938, #s 13-16 continuously paginated (52 pp. total), #s 17-20 16 pp. each. Vol. III consists of (11) issues, published from Sept. 1938 through Dec. 1939, most 16 pp. each, several 24 pp. The Packet ceased publication at that point but recommenced with Vol. 4 in Sept. 1945; this volume, height slightly reduced again, consists of (10) issues (including 9-10 combined) through June 1946, 24 pp., each, final issue 40 pp. All issues show only slight handling wear and a bit of toning. A virtual Who's Who of antiquarian bookselling, collecting, and bibliography during this era. Collector-grade, extremely scarce. Book.