Foreword Ward Ritchie (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Original publisher's black-and-white patterned paper-covered boards backed with black cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Paper on boards features a black-and-white grid pattern. Turquoise illustration of a cow skull and anchor (pressmark of the Ward Ritchie Press engraved by Paul Landacre) on front cover. 6" x 9 1/2." 171 pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, complete. Index in back. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning. Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for some age toning on paper-covered boards and slight rubbing on cloth backing. A crisp, clean, Fine copy. An autobiography by Ward Ritchie (1905-1996), an American printer, book designer, author, and book collector. He founded the Ward Ritchie Press in 1935 and was a notable figure of the Southern California printing community. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Among the many people and subjects Ritchie talks about in his memoir are Bill Jackson, Benjamin Stelter, Carlyle MacIntyre, Alice Millard, the Grabhorns, John Henry Nash, Clyde Browne, Francois-Louis Schmied, Francis Meynell, Rockwell Kent, Jake Zeitlin, Primavera Press, William Addison Dwiggins, Katherine Frazier, Cummington Press, Frederic Goudy, Scripps College Press, and Gloria Stuart.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Approx. 6 1/8" wide by 8 7/8". Title is given as it appears on the title page. On the front cover the wording is merely Moxon, Carey S. Bliss. ; 33 pages.

Black Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Illustrations In Text (illustrator). First Edition. One Of 1000 Copies Of This Trade Edition. A Well-Preserved Copy, Just A Touch Of Rubbing, With Light Chipping To Bottom Of Printed Paper Spine Label But No Loss Of Text; Bookplate Of The Rasmussens, Printers In Santa Ana, Ca At The Dragon Bindery, With Their Dragon Logo At Center.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. Ix, 171 Pp. Black Cloth Over Decorated Boards. Inscribed By The Author To One Of The Foremost South Pasadena Library Volunteers. Fine. With A Program Also Inscribed To Her From A Person Associated With The Library, Also With A Newspaper Clipping Of Ritchie's Obituary From The Los Angeles Times. Inscribed by Author(s).

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Collection of memoirs by various women parishioners from Goolwa Church of Christ. Edited by Mary Ward. Foreword by Ann Ritchie. Illustrated with b&w photographs & drawings. Illustrations by Fay Neighbour & Gina Hunt. This copy is signed & inscribed by a lady from Goolwa Church of Christ on the ffep. No date (apparently 1991, with mention of 1991 in foreword & inscription dated Jan. 1992). Thin volume. Printed in Australia. A very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 94pp. Scarce. SB-1.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Hardcover with Dust jacket both fine. Linen cloth with spine and cover labels with a decorative jacket. 27 pp. 150 copies printed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Oatmeal linen with spine and cover labels, DW, 8vo., (8), 27, (1) pages, illustrated with linecuts and halftones. One of 150 copies printed damp from Scotch type on Johonnot paper by Vance Gerry. Bound by Bela Blau. A fine copy in a fine DW printed in black and terra cotta on cream paper, in archival mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Limited to 150 copies. Fine copy in very good dust jacket with slight edge wear (short tears near and around top of spine and light wear along top edge with slight dust soiling. No markings, no bookplate.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. Two items offered together, both in fine condition. The main text is one of 150 copies printed, bound in white cloth with mounted paper labels, in a fine original dust jacket. The supplement is bound in decorative paper-covered boards with mounted paper label. The two volumes provide a short history and checklist (with revisions) of this short-lived California press, which was founded by Glenn Schaefer, a book collector and head of the Security Title Insurance and Guarantee Company of Los Angeles. Ward Ritchie writes in the Foreward to the main volume that "But for the untimely death of Glenn Schaefer soon after the press' inception.the San Pasqual Press might have become the premier publishing house of the West. The few books they did publish were outstanding trade publications, well-chosen and well-designed.".