A Natural History of The Typestickers of Los Angeles

Octavo. xii, 62pp. A candid recounting of the joys and pitfalls of presswork in southern California. Cheney revels in the identity of the "typesticker": a printer who fits "easily and naturally into the shop of any obscure printing office from the time of Gutenberg to the late Nineteenth Century" and who maintains a slight but significant place in twentieth-century presswork. Handwritten edits to page xi. Faint fading at edges, else near fine in quarter black cloth and near fine dust wrapper. Errata slips laid in. Inscribed by Cheney and by the author of the preface, H. Richard Archer.