Collection of Spiral Press printed books and holiday greeting cards, 1926-1973.

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Collection of Spiral Press printed books and holiday greeting cards, 1926-1973.

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Holiday greeting cards printed by Spiral Press proprietor Joseph Blumenthal and his wife almost every year between 1927 and 1973, and fourteen books published or printed by the press between 1926 and 1967.

1 box (.5 linear ft.)books 14.

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Spiral Press

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The Spiral Press was an American fine press founded by Joseph Blumenthal (1897-1990) in 1926. Between 1926 and its closure in 1971, the press designed and printed books for or by Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Pablo Neruda, William Carlos Williams, Robinson Jeffers and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The press's institutional clients included the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan Library, Museum of Modern Art, Frick Collection, Random House, and CBS Television Network. Blumentha...

Blumenthal, Joseph, 1897-1990

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American printer. From the description of Typographic years, [ca. 1980]-1982. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936707 Joseph Blumenthal, American printer, printing historian, and type designer. From the description of Joseph Blumenthal papers, 1922-1991. (RIT Library). WorldCat record id: 745451641 Joseph Blumenthal, American printer, printing historian, and type designer. Blumenthal designed Spiral type in 1931 in Germany so that it c...

Webster, Ida,

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The Spiral Press was founded by Joseph Blumenthal (1897-1990) in 1926. From 1930 on, the press printed special editions of the poems of Robert Frost but also engaged in a great deal of commercial and fine press work. Beginning in 1927, Blumenthal's holiday greetings featured a poem by Frost, embellished with illustrations or printers' ornaments. Blumenthal was awarded the American Institute of Graphic Arts Lifetime Achievement Award in 1952 and designed a typeface which he named after his press....

Frost, Robert, 1874-1963

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American poet from New England. Winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize. From the description of Letters, 1931-1943. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122464432 American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. From the description of Letter to Mr. Beggen [?], 1928. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 86129842 Robert Frost was an American poet. From the description of Papers concerning the Kenned...