TYPE-FACES: A Photographic Study of Ward Ritchie
Northridge, California: Santa Susana Press, 1988. First Edition. Quarto: v, 12, [3] loose leaves, text on rectos only. A fine copy, housed in the publisher's folding brown cloth portfolio with a die cut aperture and inset panel. Tribute to printer / poet / publisher Ward Ritchie, comprised of a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell, twelve original mounted photographs by Amanda Blanco (each numbered and signed on the mount by her), and a note about the photographer by Norman Tanis. This is copy No. 56 of 65, printed in Della Robbia type by Joe D'Ambrosio, and signed on the colophon by Powell and the printer. Accompanied by the pamphlet Remembering Ward and Neal (2002) by Thomas F. Andrews, past president of the Historical Society of Southern California, who inscribed this copy to Gordon Van De Water, past president of the Zamorano Club. Fine. Item #75480
Price: $600.00