Years Touched with Memories

Original publisher's black-and-white patterned paper-covered boards backed with black cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Paper on boards features a black-and-white grid pattern. Turquoise illustration of a cow skull and anchor (pressmark of the Ward Ritchie Press engraved by Paul Landacre) on front cover. 6" x 9 1/2." 171 pages, complete. Black-and-white illustrations, complete. Index in back. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning. Covers are virtually pristine and intact except for some age toning on paper-covered boards and slight rubbing on cloth backing. A crisp, clean, Fine copy. An autobiography by Ward Ritchie (1905-1996), an American printer, book designer, author, and book collector. He founded the Ward Ritchie Press in 1935 and was a notable figure of the Southern California printing community. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Among the many people and subjects Ritchie talks about in his memoir are Bill Jackson, Benjamin Stelter, Carlyle MacIntyre, Alice Millard, the Grabhorns, John Henry Nash, Clyde Browne, Francois-Louis Schmied, Francis Meynell, Rockwell Kent, Jake Zeitlin, Primavera Press, William Addison Dwiggins, Katherine Frazier, Cummington Press, Frederic Goudy, Scripps College Press, and Gloria Stuart.…