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Alan Brilliant correspondence with Ted Wilentz

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0590
Abstract

This collection contains .7 linear feet of personal letters and postcards from Alan Brilliant of Unicorn Press to his former employer and longtime friend, proprietor of Corinth Books Ted Wilentz. Other materials include press catalogs, newsletters, financial records, clippings, periodicals, poems, and other printed ephemera related to the Unicorn Press.

Dates: 1960-1996; Majority of material found within 1986-1988

J. Ben Lieberman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0516
Abstract

Educator, editor, author, amateur printer, and proponent of the private press, J. Ben Lieberman is widely regarded as the father of the twentieth-century chappel movement in the United States. The J. Ben Lieberman Papers reflect some of the accomplishments of J. Ben Lieberman and his wife Elizabeth Koller Lieberman.

Dates: 1902-1997; Majority of material found within 1945-1984

Sombre Reptiles Press records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0560
Abstract

The Berkeley, California-based Sombre Reptiles Press was founded in 1978 by poet Jerry Ratch and artist Mary Ann Hayden. This small collection consists of approximately one linear foot of material related to the operation of the press and the publication of its works, spanning the dates 1977 and 1994, with the bulk of the material dating from 1977 to 1982.

Dates: 1977-1994; Majority of material found within 1978-1982

Zephyrus Image records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0880
Abstract Zephyrus Image, founded by Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers, was a small Northern California press operating from approximately 1969-1983, notable for its socially- and politically-subversive books and ephemera and its fine works on paper. The Zephyrus Image records document the activities of the California press and its proprietors and the planning and development of roughly 300 printed works of poetry and political and satirical books and ephemera. Zephyrus Image projects were created for...
Dates: 1960-2000; Majority of material found within circa 1969-1983

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