Books and Fine Printing (Regional Oral History Office)

Interviews on Books and Fine Printing

Dorothy Allen (b. 1908) and Lewis Allen (b. 1908)
Book Printing with theHandpress. 1968, 68 pp.

Valenti Angelo (1897-1982)
Art and Books: A Glorious Variety, 1980, 157 pp.

Brother Antoninus [William Everson] (1912-1994)
Brother Antoninus: Poet, Printer, and Religious. 1966, 97 pp.

Sheldon Cheney (1886-1980)
Conversations with Sheldon Cheney. 1977, 166 pp.

Herbert Coggins
Herbert Coggins: From Horation Alger to Debs. 1957, 386 pp.

Mallette Dean (1907-1975)
Artist and Printer, 1970, 105 pp.

Edwin Grabhorn (1899-1968)
Recollections of the Grabhorn Press. 1968, 114 pp.

Jane Grabhorn (1911-1973)
The Colt Press. 1966, 43 pp.

Robert Grabhorn (1900-1973)
Fine Printing and the Grabhorn Press. 1968, 129 pp.

Sherwood Grover (1910-1978) and Katharine Grover (1911-1986)
The Grabhorn Press and the Grace Hoper Press. 1972, 94 pp.

The Hand Bookbinding Tradition in the San Francisco Bay Area. Interviews with Herrick, Stephen Gale (b. 1909); Hiller, Barbara Fallon (b. 1927); Olmsted, Duncan (b. 1905); Patri, Stella (1896-2001); Wollenberg, Leah (1906-1990). 1982, 194 pp.

Carroll T. Harris (1891-1975).
Conversations on Type and Printing. 1976, 209 pp.

James D. Hart (1911-1990).
Fine Printers of the San Francisco Bay Area. 1969, 95 pp.

Quail Hawkins (b. 1905)
The Art of Bookselling: Quail Hawkins and the Sather Gate Book Shop. 1979, 155 pp.

Warren R. Howell (1912-1984)
Two San Francisco Bookmen. 1967, 73 pp.

Haywood Hunt (1888-1974)
Recollections of San Francisco Printers. 1967, 53 pp.

Lawton Kennedy (1900-1980)
A Life in Printing. 1968, 211 pp.

Sandra Kirshenbaum
A Life with Books & with Fine Print: The Review for the Arts of the Book. 2001, 190 pp.

Wolfgang Lederer (b. 1912)
Bridging Two Worlds in Illustration, Graphic Design, and Education. 1992, 161 pp.

Oscar Lewis (1893-1992)
Literary San Francisco. 1965, 151 pp.

David Magee (1905-1977)
Bookselling and Creating Books. 1969, 92 pp.

Walter Mann (1889-1979)
Photoengraving, 1910-1969. 1973, 94 pp.

William J. Monihan, S. J. (1914-1996)
Librarian and Dedicated Bookman,University of San Francisco, 1947-1988. 1989, 108 pp.

Clifton Rather (1893-1987) and Rather, Lois (b. 1905)
The Rather Press ofOakland, California. 1994, 50 pp.

The Schmidt Lithograph Company Volume I. Interviews with Diedrichs, Herman (1887-1967); Schmidt, Bernard (1884-1974); Schmidt, Max, Jr. (1882-1974). 1968, 238 pp.
Volume II. Interviews with Norris, Stewart (b. 1912); Schmidt, Lorenz (b. 1913); Wuthman, Ernest (b. 1918). 1969, 157 pp.

Ellen Shaffer (1904-1994)
Self-Portrait of a Bookwoman. 1992, 117 pp.

Albert Sperisen (b. 1908)
San Francisco Printers, 1925-1965. 1966, 91 pp.

Jack W. Stauffacher (b. 1920)
A Printed Word Has Its Own Measure. 1969, 107 pp.
The Word Bearer of Our Confessions. 1996, 168 pp.

Edward DeWitt Taylor (1871-1962).
Supplement to Francis P. Farquhar Interview. 1960, 45 pp.

Adrian Wilson (1923-1988)
Printing and Book Designing. 1966, 108 pp.