[Los Angeles: Printed for Dawson's Book Shop at Laguna Verde Imprenta by the author, 1989]. One of fifty copies. llustrated with twenty-three wood engravings by Paul Landacre, some two per page. Two of the engravings are printed in green, two in red, and the remainder in black and white. Miniature.....
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[ Los Angeles: 1982]. With an illustration (8” x 7”) of a danse macabre (with skeletons labeled Sales, Service, Costs, and Charts) on Gutenberg’s grave above the poem “A Printer Dances a Terrible Dance of Death” by John Henry Nash. Also, with anecdote, “A Bad Case of the Jitters,” by.....
[Los Angeles:]: 1933. Frontispiece, with portraits of the officers of the Associated Women’s Students of Occidental College, and other campus women leaders. Typographical vignette on title-page, decorative headbands. Wrappers slightly creased and lightly toned. Small chip and minor tear to crown of spine. Pages untrimmed. A very good, clean copy.....
South Pasadena, Californa]: H. [Ward] Ritchie at the Flame Press, 1930. Also published in an issue on alcidine paper, limited to 24 copies. Ritchie printed both issues at the Abbey of San Encino Press. The alcidine paper edition is of course scarcer, but even this newsprint issue is becoming uncommon.....
[Los Angeles: Hackett, Newell & Ritchie for Gregg Anderson and Ward Ritchie, 1932. Large ornament on title. A very good copy. Buff colored wrappers, partially discolored. 8 1/2” x 4 13/16.”. 4 pp., printed in black and red. One of 140 copies. Text designed and set by Gregg Anderson; title-page.....
Pasadena: Harry Ward Ritchie, 1930. Fine. Octavo. 32, [1, colophon] pp. One of 200 copies, printed by Ward Ritchie. This is an early Ritchie publication, produced from Pasadena, near where he grew up, and printed at the press of the Abbey of San Encino. Note that Ritchie uses his full.....
[Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Verde Imprenta], 1990. One of fifty copies printed by Ward Ritchie. With eighteen color-printed geometric illustrations, each paired with a brief quotation, and a title-page vignette. Printed on an Albion handpress. Minor offsetting to a couple leaves. A fine copy of Ritchie’s last major work. Bound.....
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1987. One of 550 copies. Designed by Ward Ritchie nd printed by Premier Printing Corporation. Bound by Bela Blau. Color and black and white photographic reproductions throughout. Note in a former owner's hand that this was a gift from Ward Ritchie. Light bump at.....
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1982. Unnumbered copy in an edition size of 650. Publication #169 of the Book Club of California. Illustrated boards with spine stamped in gilt. Plain paper dust jacket. Pictorial end papers. Wood engravings throughout, selected from Landacre’s past works. Includes contemporary letter to.....
[Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Verde Imprenta], 1976. One of about fifty copies printed on an Albion hand press. The introductory essay is signed by Lawrence Clark Powell. Ritchie has signed his essay on Quince, with all his various pseudonyms: Davie Dicher, James Beattie Pitwood, Betsey Ann Bristol, Peter Lum Quince.....
[Los Angeles: 1960]. No limitation given, but a scarce item. Large woodcut of the Ward Ritchie printer's device on the first page, one large initial in red. A couple of light marks on last blank page. Very good to fine. One sheet, folded to make [4] pp.
Los Angeles: [Ward Ritchie Press], 1938. One of 150 copies printed as a Christmas keepsake by Ward Ritchie. With nine floral woodcut vignettes by Paul Landacre (including title-page vignette). A fine copy. Original green printed paper wrappers stitched at spine. Printed gray paper label on front cover. With a laid-in.....
Los Angeles: 1938. One of 100 copies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press. Two plates. Some light foxing to spine and title-page. Otherwise a fine copy. Quarter linen over green paper-covered boards, paper spine label. Quarto. [20] pp.
