Jack Werner Stauffacher papers

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Jack Werner Stauffacher papers

1956-1958

16 letters between Stauffacher and Gordon Cook, written while Stauffacher was in Italy researching the history of printing, and 2 letters from Henry Miller to Stauffacher concerning Miller's books: Smile at the Foot of the Ladder, Quiet Days in Clichy, and The World of Sex. Also included are 32 unsigned prints and drawings by Cook for a collaborative book with Stauffacher, and a photograph of Cook.

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Greenwood Press (San Francisco, Calif.)

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The Vico Collaboration name is based on the principles of the "New Science" of Giambattista Vico, "... the central principle of which is Vico's ultimate claim to immortality: the principle according to which man can understand himself because, and in the process, of understanding his past..." From the description of The Vico collaboration : Vico photograph portfolio #8, Vico wooden letters portfolio #16, "New Science" broadside #10, and Divine Liqueur #6, 2003. (Unknown). WorldCat re...

Stauffacher, Jack W. (Jack Werner), 1920-

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Typographer, designer, publisher; San Francisco, Calif. b. 1920. From the description of Oral history interview with Jack Werner Stauffacher, 1993 Feb. 8 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82780147 Jack Werner Stauffacher has been the owner and operator of Greenwood Press since 1936, first in San Mateo, California, and then in San Francisco. In the 1950's he studied with master printers in Florence, Italy, for three years, under the auspices of a Fulbright Fou...

Miller, Henry, 1891-1980.

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Novelist. From the description of Papers, 1952-1957. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155457225 Henry Miller (1891-1980) was an American author. He was known for his experimental, surrealist novels, such as Tropic of Cancer, which mixed fiction and autobiography. His writing was controversial for its graphic depictions of sexuality, leading to a 1964 obscenity trial in the United States, Grove Press, Inc. v. Gerstein. From the guide to the Henry Miller Letter, unda...

Cook, Gordon, Ph. D.

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Gordon Cook, painter of San Francisco, Calif. From the description of Oral history interview with Gordon Cook, 1981 May 11-June 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 646395855 Painter, printmaker; San Francisco, California. Born October 3, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, and died August 5, 1985 in San Francisco, California. From the description of Gordon Cook papers, 1956-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122571051 Painter (San Francisco, Calif.). ...