Adventures with Authors

[Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Verde Imprenta], 1978 One of about fifty copies printed on an1865 Albion hand press by Ward Ritchie. The text is based on a talk given to members of the Zamorano Club. Ritchie discusses his experiences with Robinson Jeffers, Gertrude Stein, Robert Graves, Laura Riding, Somerset Maugham, and others. Red, black and cream marbled wrappers with decorative labels on front and back covers. Octavo. Decorative title-page in yellow, red, green and black. Decorative initials in red, printer's device in green on colophon. A fine copy. "this short account…is here printed as a vehicle to show some initial letters designed for me by (truncated) the late Polish sculptor and painter, Stanislaw Szukalski. They were cut in wood by a young employee named Digges Graves and for more than forty years have been buried to be exhumed and printed here for the first time." (Inventory #: 14042)