The Rather Press of Oakland, California : oral history transcript / Interviewed in 1980 by Ruth Teiser for the Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1994.

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The Rather Press of Oakland, California : oral history transcript / Interviewed in 1980 by Ruth Teiser for the Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1994.

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Getting into the book printing business; buying a Sigwalt printing press, and modifying it for use with one hand; Clifton and Lois's backgrounds prior to printing; learning from Jane Grabhorn to bind books; printing limited editions and selling books; typefaces and setting type; Lois as author of many of the Rather Press books; halftones and other illustrations; the Moxon Chappel support group of private press owners; modifying the house to accommodate the printing activities.

x, 50 leaves ; 29 cm.

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Rather, Clifton, 1893-1987.

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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....

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 ...

Rather, Lois, 1905-

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Lois Rather and Clif Rather, proprietors of the Rather Press, Oakland, Calif. From the description of Lois Rather correspondence : Oakland, Calif. with Roger Keith Larson, 1975-1995. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 35583908 ...