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Special Publications
In addition to its periodical publications, APHA also publishes books of interest to members. After publication through the Association, these items are available from Oak Knoll Books, and may be ordered directly from them. The following publications are currently in print.
Verse into Type: The APHA Poetry Portfolio
Fourteen of America's leading printers contributed broadsides to this project. The portfolio contains a wide variety of typographic arrangements of poetry, both contemporary and classic, using a variety of typefaces, colors, formats, and papers, all printed letterpress. The poems were selected by the printers themselves.
Contributors include: Mindy Beloff, Robin Price, Sandy Connors, Barbara Henry, Ed Colker, Ron Gordon, David Pankow, Jerry Kelly, Kay Michael Kramer, Michael Peich, Gaylord Shanilec, Jack Stauffacher, Michael Russem and Carolee Campbell.
225 copies.
The printed broadsides are housed in a handmade cloth traycase made by Judi Conant. 2006.
$200, plus shipping and handling. Order this book from Oak Knoll Books.
The Spiral Press, 1926–1971. A Bibliographical Checklist
Compiled by Philip N. Cronenwett
The Spiral Press was one of the most important presses in America in the 20th century. As a printer, Joseph Blumenthal set standards that are unequalled for dedication to the details of fine printing and design. His proprietary typeface, Spiral, was admired by the Monotype Corporation and adapted as "Emerson" for commercial book composition. The significance of The Spiral Press to American letters and cultural history is underscored by the items listed in the bibliography. Joseph Blumenthal designed and printed for Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Pablo Neruda, William Carlos Williams, Robinson Jeffers and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Institutions counted among the press's clients were The Metropolitan Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The Morgan Library, The Grolier Club and The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
500 regular edition copies. Printed by the Studley Press.
Cloth. 196 pages containing more than two dozen reproductions of Spiral Press pages. 2002.
$55.00, plus shipping and handling. Order this book from Oak Knoll Books.
D.B.U. and R.R.: Selected extract from correspondence
that passed between Daniel Berkeley Updike &
Rudolph Ruzicka from 1908 to 1941.
Edited by Edward Connery Lathem and Elizabeth French Lathem
D.B.U. and R.R. prints for the first time extracts from the important correspondence between these major figures of American graphic arts, revealing a little-known closeness between the Merrymount Press fine printer Updike and the artist Ruzicka. The two men collaborated on a number of important books, including Newark and the Grolier Club's Irving, as well as the exquisite series of Merrymount annual keepsakes. Ruzicka also played a substantial advisory role in the writing of Updike's monumental Printing Types. This touching and candid thirty-three year correspondence is put in context by the Lathems' elucidating commentary.
450 regular edition copies. Printed by the Stinehour Press.
Cloth, printed dust-jacket. 181 pages including index and two tipped-in facsimiles. 1997.
$ 50.00, plus shipping and handling. Order this book from Oak Knoll Books.
American Proprietary Typefaces
Edited by David Pankow
With contributions by: Susan Otis Thompson, Martin Hutner, Herbert Johnson, Cathleen Baker, Mark Argetsinger, Jerry Kelly, Dwight Anger, W. Gay Reading, John Kristensen, and Paul Hayden Duensing.
600 regular edition copies, designed by Jerry Kelly and printed letterpress, with 38 plates by offset lithography, by the Stinehour Press.
Cloth, gilt and blind stamped. 176 pages plus 38 plates. 1998.
$50, plus shipping and handling. Order this book from Oak Knoll Books.
Elected to their first term, at our annual general meeting held January 28, were Robert McCamant, President; James P. Ascher, VP for Publications; Casey Smith, VP for Membership; and Charles Cuykendall Carter, Secretary. Re-elected to a second term were Kitty Maryatt, VP for Programs; and David Goodrich, Treasurer. Trustees Amelia Hugill-Fontanel and Richard Ring will serve until January 2013.
The American Printing History Association welcomes proposals for its 2012 annual conference. “At the Crossroads: Living Letterform Traditions” at Columbia College Chicago, Center for Book and Paper Arts, October 12–13, 2012. Proposals are due by March 15. Full details are available in PDF.
Our annual general meeting will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday January 28, 2012 in the Trustees’ Room on the second floor of the New York Public Library, 5th Avenue at 42nd Street in Manhattan. In addition to Association business, our annual meeting is a chance to meet fellow members from around the country, to network, and to hear some important speakers. (Our meeting marks the end of “Bibliography Week” in New York, when similar groups hold their annual meetings and this year includes a major exhibition on printing at the Grolier Club; more information online grolierclub.org. APHA’s meeting is free and open to non-members (except for voting), so please invite friends interested in printing, books, publishing, and type. Read the President's Letter.
The Fall 2011 issue of the APHA Newsletter comprises of reports from the annual conference including panels, Pamela Smith's keynote address, Gwido Zlatkes's Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship talk, the SoCal chapter book fair, a tour of the Stuart Collection of outdoor sculpture at UCSD and a list of new APHA members. Download the Newsletter in PDF form.
Kitty Maryatt reports on the first-ever conference book fair. Read all about it.
Many numbers are available to APHA members for a limited time at the bargain rate of $8 for the first issue, $6 for each additional; $15 for double issues. Learn more at printinghistory.org/sale.
Details and application for the 2012 Mark Samuels Lasner Fellowship
in Printing History are now online.
Thanks to the generosity of several APHA Southern California Chapter members, the Southern California Chapter has conducted its first-ever student membership drawing.
To celebrate the start of 2011, the complete listing of Printing History's contents have been put back online. See the contents (and a few select articles) from the Original Series, or a complete listing of the New Series. See something you like? Download the Back Issue Order Form.