The Grabhorn Press and the Grace Hoper Press : oral history transcript / Sherwood Grover ; tape recorded interview conducted by Ruth Teiser in 1970. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1972 : and related material, 1970-1972.

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The Grabhorn Press and the Grace Hoper Press : oral history transcript / Sherwood Grover ; tape recorded interview conducted by Ruth Teiser in 1970. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1972 : and related material, 1970-1972.

Comments on their work for the Grabhorn Press, 1934-1962; the different personalities of Edwin and Robert Grabhorn; the establishment of their own press, the Grace Hoper Press; the small private press movement. Photographs inserted.

Transcript : [7], 94 leaves ; 28 cm. + related material.

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Teiser, Ruth

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Teiser is a free-lance writer who has written extensively on the California wine industry. From the description of Papers, 1960-1990. (University of California, Davis). WorldCat record id: 43596964 ...

Grover, Katharine

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Grace Hoper Press

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Grabhorn Press

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Fine printing firm established in San Francisco, California, by Edwin Grabhorn and his brother, Robert. From the description of Grabhorn Press records, 1917-1973. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 82842847 Robert (1900-1973) and Edwin (1889-1968) Grabhorn, from Indiana, began printing in 1911 in Seattle, later moved to Indianapolis, and established the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco in 1920. It soon became internationally known for fine craftsmanship...

Grabhorn, Robert

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Grabhorn, Edwin, 1889-1968.

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Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office

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According to the University of California, Berkeley Bancroft Library website: "The Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) is a research program of the University of California, Berkeley, working within The Bancroft Library. ROHO conducts, teaches, analyzes, and archives oral and video history documents in a broad variety of subject areas critical to the history of California and the United States." For more information regarding the ROHO and their work please consult their website: http://bancroft....

Grover, Sherwood

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American illustrator and book decorator who began with the Grabhorns in the 1930s. When he established his own press in Fairfax, he produced engravings and designs for other fine presses in the Bay Area. From the description of Mallette Dean; artist and printer, 1907-1975: memorial publication by The Book Club of California, 1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122566395 ...