Grant Dahlstrom, Master Printer

Los Angeles, CA: The New Ampersand Press, 1977.

8vo. 9 5/8 x 6 5/8 inches. [viii], 36, [2] pp. Half-title, black-and-white photographic frontispiece portrait of Dahlstrom tipped-in, title page printed in red and black inks with ampersand vignette; text clean, unmarked. Black cloth spine, patterned paper over boards, printed paper spine label; binding square and tight, some light spotting to cloth at spine. 782-229-003. Very Good.

LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies printed by Vance Gerry at the Weatherbird Press in Linotype Janson on Warren's Olde Style wove paper, bound by Kater-Crafts Bookbinders. Contents include: "Grant Dahlstrom: A Career in Context," by Roby Wentz; "Dahlstrom: The Man of the World," by Philip S. Brown; "Ink is Thicker than Water," by John Dreyfus; "G. D.," by Ward Ritchie; "On Quiet Typography," by Hermann Zapf; and "Grant Dahlstrom at Seventy-five," by Jake Zeitlin. Copy right page states that this book was published for the Rounce & Coffin Club by Dawson's book shop and Zeitlin & Ver Brugge. Vance Gerry writes "The ex-Dahlstrom apprentice bore the weight of printing his master's tributes by cagily playing down any suggestion of typographical excess, including printing the cover paper gray on gray." Twenty-five Years, No. 31a.

REFERENCES: Butcher, "Checklist" in Vance Gerry and the Weather Bird Press, No. 2a; Gerry, Twenty-five Years of the Weather Bird Press, No. 31a.