Box 09
Container
Contains 16 Results:
Encapsulated prints
File — Box: 09, Folder: 10
Identifier: MSS021:04.10
Scope and Contents
Encapsulated prints, 3 items.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900s
Book Club of California
File — Box: 09, Folder: 11
Identifier: MSS021:04.11
Scope and Contents
The Book Club of California
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900s
Newspaper articles about Lewis Osborne
File — Box: 09, Folder: 12
Identifier: MSS021:04.12
Scope and Contents
Newspaper articles about Lewis Osborne, 3 items.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900s
Book Club of California
File — Box: 09, Folder: 13
Identifier: MSS021:04.13
Scope and Contents
Book Club of California, 3 items.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900s
Ephemera, invitations, announcements, etc., 1959-1977
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS021:02
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Lewis Osborne collaborated with recognized experts in the book trade and with numerous established historians and Western Americana writers to produce his books. Among those who contributed introductions to this editions include David Lavender, Richard Dillon, Shirley Sargent, Kenneth Johnson, Roger Swearingen, William Hutchinson, Oscar Lewis, Ansel Adams, George Stewart, and Ferol Egan. Osborne was knowledgeable of all aspects of book production, and on a few of his later books, he hand...
Dates:
1959-1977
Lewis Osborne small press collection and papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-021
Abstract
Osborne’s books are characterized by a restrained and tasteful style, fine topography, high-quality paper, abundant use of period illustrations, and fine binding. The book trade quickly recognized their merit and in the thirteen years that he was a publisher, fifteen of his books won the coveted Rounce and Coffin Club “Western Book Award,” and two were selected for the prestigious national American Institute of Graphic Art’s “Fifty Books of the Year” Award. A complete collection of the...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900s