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Vancouver 1949-62 Montreal New York & New Haven Vancouver Redux News & Notes |
| Description: Hundreds of samples reproduced from Terry Berger's collection, in eight sections including trade cards, sheet music, book illustrations and menus.
Octavo, approx 150 pp. Bound in linen with inlaid label on fornt board and spine label, in a matching slipcase. Privately distributed (about 15 copies) to friends and family.
Colophon: Among the many typefaces used in this book Goudy 30, Bembo, De Vinne roman and italics, Kabel Light, Bernhard Fashion, Hobo, Lorrenne, and Gill Floriated Initials should be mentioned, all set on a Mac by Robert Reid, who also did the printing on Jan Alexander's laser color printer on Classic Crest book paper. The binding was done by Centennial Bookbinders.
Notes:
"I collected old car ads, Terry collected old business cards, I collected
golf memorabilia, Terry collected old photographs, I collected Notgeld,
Terry collected postcards, I collected stamps, she collected medallions, and
so on ad absurdum. We should have said, as Fred said to Ginger, 'Let's call
the whole thing off.'
"But no, it was such great fun. A day here, a weekend there. New
restaurants to try out, new sights to be seen as a bonus to our real
intent - to see what finds we would make riffling through files of ephemera in
cardboard boxes at dealers' tables. The most amazing thing of all is what
dealers had found in basements and attics and saved for us to discover with
such enthusiasm.
"There were other venues as well. Rare book shops in London, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Savannah, Miami, Baltimore, Portland, Boston, Atlanta,
Charleston yielded great finds. Manhattan was a constant source of
supply, with weekend paper shows in church basements and school gymnasiums.
In the summer there was the great open-air flea market in the parking lot at Sixth
Avenue and 24th Street. And best of all, the Pageant bookshop just down
Third Avenue from our coach house on 21st Street." - Robert Reid
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