Powell Lawrence Clark Compiler (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Original publisher's green cloth binding. Original beige-pink paper dust jacket with black lettering on front panel and spine included. Black-and-white photographic illustration of Powell on back flap of dust jacket. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2." 246 pages, complete. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for small spots of foxing limited to edges of text block. Covers are very clean and intact except for light age toning. Binding is tight. Dust jacket is clean and intact except for light age toning and a few faint smudges. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. A selection of writings by Lawrence Clark Powell. With an Introduction by William Targ. Designed by Ward Ritchie. From the dust jacket: "This is a collection of essays written by the distinguished retired librarian of the University of California at Los Angeles and dean emeritus of its Library School. Some of these essays are published here for the first time. Most of those that have been previously published are now out of print, making this new volume a particularly timely one.".…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st printing in wrappers. 1st printing of the wrappers binding of the book. Decorated wraps. 46pp. Laid in is a narrow slip finely printed crediting the underwriters of this work and given to those attending a convocation honoring Powell in 1966. LCP was one of the great modern American librarians whose passion was books. Fine copy.…

(Los Angeles): UCLA Library Occasional Papers Number 11, 1959. First edition. Original printed wrappers, unlettered cloth spine, 60 pp., printed on the recto, only. A Fine copy.

Limited Edition. Octavo. One of 750 copies printed at the Ward Ritchie Press, and copyrighted by Jake Zeitlin, 79pp., bound in blue paper wraps printed in black, some finger soiling, spine ends a bit chipped otherwise a very good copy with the supplemental list of manuscripts for sale by Jake Zeitlin laid in.…

Soft cover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. First Edition. Blue wrappers. Printed by The Ward Ritchie Press in an edition of 750 copies. 79 pages. Slightly sunned on back cover, otherwise fine. With a Foreword By Aldous Huxley.

Condition: Very Good. The manuscript materials described in the present item were exhibited and sold by Jake Zeitlin at the time of the publication of PowellÕs bibliography. 6 x 9 ." pp. [i-ii], iii-xi, [3], 1-79. Emblem of a phoenix, designed by Ward Ritchie, printed in red and blue on title-page. With 2 unnumbered full-page photographic plates between pages 8 and 9. Text printed in black with headings in blue. Blue paper wrappers printed with title in black. Perfect bound, sewn with white thread. Some mild discoloration and dampstaining to head of wrappers, also affecting preliminary and final pages. Spine lightly faded. Small tear to wrapper at head of spine. A bit of light offsetting from emblem on title-page. A very good copy One of 750 copies. Includes a preface by Lawrence Clark Powell, an introduction by Aldous Huxley, and an introductory note by Jake Zeitlin. Front flyleaf inscription by Jake Zeitlin to Peggy Christian refers to the present work as ÒA landmark catalogue for Powell + Ritchie as well as Lawrence.Ó Also includes a 1969 postal stamp laid in. During his lifetime, Lawrence Clark Powell (1906-2001) was a librarian at the UCLA Library, the head librarian at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, and the first dean of the School of Library Service at UCLA (now called the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies). After moving to Tucson, Arizona in 1966, Powell worked as a professor at the University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science. He served as the president of the Bibliographical Society of America, the California Library Association, the Zamorano Club, and was a prominent member of the Grolier Club and several more bibliophilic organizations. The Ward Ritchie Press and Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, pp. 75-76. …