[Broadside]. A Printer Dances a Terrible Dance of Death” [and] “A Bad Case of the Jitters.”

Item Details

Los Angeles, "Presented to Ward Ritchie by Los Compadres at Jake Zeitlin’s Red Barn", 1982, Broadside, unbound

First edition, Fine

21½ in. x 15½ in. With an illustration (8” x 7”) of a danse macabre (with skeletons labeled Sales, Service, Costs, and Charts) on Gutenberg’s grave above the poem “A Printer Dances a Terrible Dance of Death” by John Henry Nash. Also, with anecdote, “A Bad Case of the Jitters,” by Nash. Text and engraving in decorative borders.

Broadside, all text and images printed in black, on off-white card paper. A fine, bright copy of a rare later Ward Ritchie and Jake Zeitlin item.

The present work would have been presented to Ritchie just after his seventy-seventh birthday, though the exact occasion is unclear. “Los Compadres” refers to an informal club of bibliophiles gathered around Jake Zeitlin and his Red Barn. The issuer of this broadside was undoubtedly a club member who may or may not have himself been a printer.

We have been unable to locate any other copies in commerce at this time. OCLC also records no copies. It was no doubt issued in a very small number of copies, and it is unknown to advanced Ritchie collectors we have contacted.

BUY DIRECT HERE:

https://www.mrtbooksla.com/pages/books/16852/ward-ritchie-association/broadside-a-printer-dances-a-terrible-dance-of-death-and-a-bad-case-of-the-jitters-affectionately