The Manuscripts of D.H. Lawrence: A Descriptive Catalogue. Compiled by... With a foreword by Aldous Huxley.
Los Angeles: The Public Library, [Designed by Ward Ritchie and Printed by the Ward Ritchie Press,], 1937. 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 “A landmark catalogue for Powell + Ritchie as well as Lawrence.” Also includes a 1969 postal stamp laid in. 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. 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. Blue paper wrappers printed with title in black. Perfect bound, sewn with white thread. 6 x 9 .". pp. [i-ii], iii-xi, [3], 1-79. Item #18059
The manuscript materials described in the present item were exhibited and sold by Jake Zeitlin at the time of the publication of Powell’s bibliography.
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.
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