[Rarebooks] FS: Reid, Robert R. A Young Printer in San Francisco. 1949.

[Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers]

Reid, Robert R. A Young Printer in San Francisco. 1949. Vancouver, BC:
Heavenly Monkey, 2007. Limited Edition. Paperback. Octavo. [10]pp. This one
of 35 copies (from a total edition of 50 copies), referred to as the
'Miniscule' edition. With a frontisportrait of Reid from a linocut by Andrea
Taylor. Sewn into a handmade pastepaper wrap at the Heavenly Monkey studio,
the title letterpress printed on the front cover. Numbered and signed by the
author in the colophon. In Fine Condition. // 

"In 1949 Reid celebrated inclusion of his first limited-edition book ("The
Fraser Mines Vindicated") in that year's Rounce & Coffin Club annual book
show, by driving down the West Coast to see the exhibition. Along the way he
stopped in San Francisco, and during just a few days there, managed to meet
a number of the city's printing luminaries: the Grabhorn brothers, Col.
Carroll Harris, and perhaps most memorable of all, William Everson, then at
work on "A Privacy of Speech". This brief account of the trip is written in
Reid's customary style effusive for all things printed. Set by hand in 18-pt
Perpetua and printed in two colors on the handpress on dampened handmade HM
Text paper. The frontis is a specially commissioned contemporary linocut
portrait of Robert by Andrea Taylor." Image available upon request (41523)
$200.00

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