Grolier Club Centennial records, 1982-1985.

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Grolier Club Centennial records, 1982-1985.

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The Grolier Club Centennial records collection includes records documenting the Centennial Fund, the Centennial Convocation (April 1984), and major Club publications issued for the Centennial. This material includes: authors' typescripts and galley/printers' proofs from the Stinehour Press. Publications represented are: Joseph Blumenthal's The typographic years; (1983); Bibliography, its history and development, by Bernard Breslauer and Roland Folter (1984); and The Grolier Club: its library, publications and exhibitions (1984). Also: typescripts and related materials for Books and prints, past, present and future: papers presented at the Grolier Club Centennial Convocation (1984). There are also invitations and other printed ephemera issued in connection with the Centennial, ca. 275 photographs of Centennial events, and an autograph score for the Grolier Centennial Fanfare composed by Lawrence Benz.

2 card files (3 linear ft.)Photographs ca. 275 ; 20 x 25 cm and smallerCard files 2 ; 2 linear ft.

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Riley, Elizabeth.

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Benz, Lawrence

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Nikirk, Robert

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Librarian. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert Nikirk : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122308358 Founded in 1884 by a group of seven New York City Book collectors, the Grolier Club has employed librarians for over a century, and in the last few decades they have also assumed the duties of director. Robert Nikirk had a background in art historical studies and employment in a book auction house when he was app...

Grolier Club. Centennial Committee.

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Reese, William S.

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Folter, Roland

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Grolier Club. Council.

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Grolier Club. Committee on Public Exhibitions.

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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...

Breslauer, Bernhard

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Grolier Club

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The Grolier Club was founded in Jan. 23, 1884 by a group of seven New York City book collectors with the object, as stated in its constitution, "of literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books." From its early days the Club has maintained a library related to collecting, bibliography and books about books. A library endowment fund (sometimes referred to as the "Library Fund) for the Grolier Club was first proposed in 1921, and the first fund-raising campaign amo...

Grolier Club. Committee on Modern Fine Printing.

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Grolier Club. Committee on Publications.

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Stinehour Press

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Grolier Club Centennial Convocation.

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Graff, Robert D., 1919-

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Sean O'Casey was an Irish playwright. From the guide to the Robert D. and Marjorie Graff Sean O'Casey collection, 1916-1980., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Robert D. and Marjorie S. Graff are book collectors who maintain their private library in Far Hills, New Jersey. Robert S. Graff's collecting interests focused on 20th century American, English and Irish literature,including first editions. In 1965, Graff became a member of the Grolier Cl...