The Colt Press :
oral history transcript /
Jane Bissell Grabhorn ; tape-recorded interview conducted by Ruth Teiser in December, 1965. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1966 :
and related material,
1965-1966.

Description

Main Author

Grabhorn, Jane Bissell

Related Names

Teiser, Ruth, interviewer.
Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.

Language(s)

English

Subjects

Grabhorn Press.
Colt Press.
Jumbo Press.
Women printers.
Printers > Printers / California.
Printing > Printing / California > Printing / California / History.
Oral histories.

Summary

With this: Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Typographic Work of Jane Grabhorn in the Albert M. Bender Room of the Stanford University Libraries, March 4 to April 7, 1956.
Appended: Photocopies of articles about the Grabhorns appearing in San Francisco newspapers.
Comments on the Jumbo Press, her first imprint; the beginnings of the Colt Press in 1938 with William M. Roth; printers in San Francisco; economics of fine book printing. Photographs inserted.

Note

Phonotape also available.
Also available online.

Physical Description

Transcript : [9], 43 leaves ; 28 cm. + related material.

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