Henry Evans : Bookseller, Printer, Publisher, Printmaker.

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Tape-backed laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 29 cm, viii, 51 pp, ills (some colour). From the introduction - " [In 1950s Northern California ]a host of interesting and iconoclastic booksellers and bookstores prospered. One exemplar was the Porpoise Bookshop in San Francisco, which flourished between 1948 and 1964. Founded and operated by Henry and Patricia Evans, with help from their daughter Judith, the Porpoise Bookshop was an antiquarian and secondhand book shop, a small press publisher, and an art gallery. It was also one of a handful of independent, pioneering small press publisher-booksellers that set the stage for the small press movement that became prominent in California in the 1960s and later. This multifaceted business was a reflection of its polymath owners: the personable, bookish, and intelligent Evanses. Henry Evans was an exceptional bookman, an accomplished writer, letterpress printer, artist, and later a botanical printmaker - talents that were nearly all self-taught, or as he later claimed, "the result of trial and error." Patricia Healy Evans was a fine illustrator, writer, com piler of enchanting books for children, and an essential collaborator in Henry's endeavors. Judith, an only child, was involved in the business from a remarkably early age. At ten she was setting type and contributing artwork, both of which she continued to do throughout her teens. Their collected work, from elegant letterpress portfolios with block illustrations to whimsical booklets and catalogs, reveals a charm and jeu d'esprit that tells a story of book people thoroughly enjoying themselves - and entertaining others in the process." Near Fine. Presentation inscription from author on front free endpaper ". A story of San Francisco bookselling of yesterday.". N° de ref. del artículo ABE-50911

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