DESIDERATA
Bancroftiana from time to time publishes lists of books that the Library needs. We would be particularly pleased to receive gifts of any of the books listed below. If you can help, please telephone Bonnie Bearden, Rare Books Acquisitions Assistant, 510-642-8171, or you may send a fax to 510-643-2548 or, send email to bbearden@library.berkeley.edu.
Typography/Design/Illustration
American Type Founders Company. Specimens of Type. Minneapolis: 1895. (The first type specimen book issued by American Type Founders).
Battershall, Fletcher. Bookbinding for Bibliophiles, Being Notes on Some Technical Features of the Well Bound Book for the Aid of Connoisseurs, Together With a Sketch of Gold Tooling, Ancient and Modern. Greenwich: Literary Collector Press, 1905.
Buchanan, Handasyde. Nature into Art: A Treasure of Great Natural History Books. New York: Mayflower Books, 1979.
Burgert, Joachim. The Calligraphic Line. Berlin: 1989.
Hochuli, Jost. Detail in Typography. 1987.
Ryder, John. The Just Shaping of the Late Twentieth-Century Book. 1982.
Spiekermann, Erik. Rhyme & Reason. Berlin: Berthold, 1987. (a typographic novel).
Tooley, Ronald Vere. English Books with Coloured Plates, 1790-1860: a bibliographic account. Rev. ed. Folkestone, Eng: Dawson, 1979.
Literature/Poetry/Drama
Armes, William Dallam. The Beginnings of California Literature. Berkeley: UC Press, 1915.
Mortimer, John Clifford. The Fear of Heaven. London: French, 1978.
Niedecker, Lorine. New Goose. Prairie City, Ill. : Decker Press, 1946.
Shepard, Sam. Angel City, Curse of the Starving Class, and Other Plays. New York: Urizen, 1976.
________ Buried Child & Seduced and Suicide in B. Vancouver: Talon Books, 1979.
Volume 118
Spring 2001
Table of Contents
With the Free Speech Movement Collections, You are There
From the Director: The Bancroft–Wells Fargo Audiotape Project
A Wrong Turn Led to a Half-Century of Service
Latin American Treasures on Display at the Bancroft
Collecting the California Feminist Press Materials
Bernard Rosenthal, the Antiquarian, Scholar, and Friend of The Bancroft Library
David Ross Brower, Leader of the Environmental Movement
Home at Last—Four Manuscript Chapters of Mark Twain's A Tramp Abroad Come to Bancroft
Willa Baum, ROHO Director, is Honored on Her Retirement
Wedding Bells and Fond Farewells
