Allen Press.
Variant namesSmall book press founded by Dorothy and Lewis Allen that produced limited edition, handpress books from 1940-1992. Among the books printed were: The Transposed Heads by Thomas Mann, Quartet: Four Stories by Edith Wharton, Jealousy by Alain Robbe-Grillet, The Fall by Albert Camus, Youth by Joseph Conrad and The Murders at the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe.
From the description of Allen Press records, 1949-1990. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26598540
Archival Resources
| Role | Title | Holding Repository | |
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| referencedIn | Roy Vernon Sowers and Margaret Cosgrave Sowers papers, 1629-1994. | Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives | |
| referencedIn | Ted Freedman Papers, 1926-1974 | Bancroft Library | |
| referencedIn | Carpenter, Kenneth. Kenneth J. Carpenter correspondence, 1964-1987, with Lewis M. Allen and Roger Levenson. | UC Berkeley Libraries | |
| creatorOf | Grabhorn Press. Grabhorn Press records, 1917-1973. | UC Berkeley Libraries | |
| referencedIn | The Roy Vernon Sowers and Margaret Cosgrave Sowers papers, 1629-1994 | Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives | |
| creatorOf | Allen Press. Allen Press records, 1949-1990. | UC Berkeley Libraries |
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| associatedWith | Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn, 1857-1948. | person |
| associatedWith | Carpenter, Kenneth. | person |
| associatedWith | Caxton, William, ca. 1422-1491 or 2. | person |
| associatedWith | Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924. | person |
| associatedWith | Dryden, John, 1631-1700. | person |
| associatedWith | Euripides. | person |
| associatedWith | Freedman, Ted | person |
| associatedWith | Grabhorn, Jane Bissell. | person |
| associatedWith | Grabhorn Press. | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Grabhorn, Robert. | person |
| associatedWith | James, Henry, 1843-1916. | person |
| associatedWith | Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955. | person |
| associatedWith | Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. | person |
| associatedWith | Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 1922-2008. | person |
| associatedWith | Sowers, Margaret Cosgrave. | person |
| associatedWith | Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894. | person |
| associatedWith | Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. | person |
| Place Name | Admin Code | Country | |
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| California--San Francisco Bay Area |
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| Publishers and publishing |
| Book industries and trade |
| Printers |
| Printing presses |
| Small press books |
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