Arnold Dorthea

Stauffacher, Jack W. (Compiler): PORTER GARNETT: PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS ON THE IDEAL BOOK, (San Francisco) Book Club of California 1994
Edition limited to 450 copies. Writer, printer and teacher Porter Garnett (1871-1951), a native of San Francisco, was associated with the Bohemian Club and was a friend of Jack London, Dorthea Lange and Maynard Dixon among others. He founded the Laboratory Press at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh in 1922 and directed it until its closing and his retirement in 1935. The book contains selected writings by Garnett, Paul Valery and Henri Vacillon and tributes from friends, students and admirers, including Bror Zachrisson and Wilder Bentley, among others. Designed by Jack Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press, San Francisco. Typesetting by Francesca Stauffacher. Printed on Mohawk Superfine and set in Cycles types, designed by Sumner Stone. Printing by Phelps/Schaefer, Brisbane, California. Binding by Cardoza-James Binding Company, San Francisco. The title is provided by a two-color-printed paper label on the spine.

8vo., cloth, plastic dust jacket. (v), 251, (3) pages.

[SW: PRIVATE PRESS & FINE PRINTING, TWENTIETH CENTURY UNITED STATES, CALIFORNIA BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA ZACHRISSON, BROR GENTHE, ARNOLD BENTLEY, WILDER VALERY, PAUL FOCILLON, HENRI BOHEMIAN CLUB LONDON, JACK LANGE, DOROTHEA GREENWOOD PRESS STONE, SUMNER]

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