Zamorano Celebrates 90:

Item Details

[Pasadena]:, The Zamorano Club, 2018, Leather-backed cloth boards.

One of 75 numbered subscriber copies (of a total run of 125 copies), As new.

Octavo. 63, [1] pp. Black and white photographic reproduction portraits of the subjects dealt with. Type set in Italian Old Style, printed from photopolymer plates on 100% cotton Somerset Text. Designed and printed by Norman Clayton. Bound by Kater-Crafts Bookbinders.

Quarter brown Morocco and purple cloth. Gilt numerals “90” to front board and spine title in gilt. Lavender and white endpapers, lettered with z's for Zamorano. A fine copy.

One of 75 numbered subscriber copies (of a total run of 125), in a half-leather binding with the colophon signed by all contributors as well as the printer and project manager. This copy also signed by Agnes Dawson underneath her photo. With a printed “Zamorano Celebrates 90” event invitation card laid in.

A collection of essays discussing the contributions of seven women booksellers and collectors, including booksellers Alice Millard, Margaret (Peggy) Christian and Agnes Dawson; collectors  Olive Percival, Mayme Clayton, and Carrie Estelle Doheny; and printer Lillian Marks. The contributors include Judy Harvey Sahak, Brad Johnson, Jen Johnson, Michele Zack, Elizabeth Pomeroy, Romy Wyllie, Gary Kurutz, Carrie Marsh, and Laura Rips. Produced on the occasion of the Zamorano Club’s 90^thanniversary. It is noteworthy that the Club only started to admit women into their ranks in 1990.

 

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