BOOKS & VIDEOS— BY

Brechin, Gray, et. al. Inscriptions at the old Public Library of San Francisco, Edited by Jack W. Stauffacher. San Francisco: Book Club of California and San Francisco Public Library, 2003.

The Cowell Press and its Legacy, 1973-2004: Interviews with Jack Stauffacher, George Kane, Aaron Johnson, Peggy Gotthold, Felicia Rice, Tom Killion, interviewed by Gregory Graalfs; ed. by Gregory Graalfs and Irene Reti. Santa Cruz, CA: University of California, Santa Cruz, University Library, 2005. Accessed 14 March 2015: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0mz917dq

Greenwood Press Ephemera, 1947-1998. San Francisco, CA: The Greenwood Press, 1947-1988.

Miscellaneous items printed by Stauffacher at the Greenwood Press in the collection of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Horace. Carmina, Liber 1: Odes. Translated by Michael Taylor. San Francisco, CA: The Greenwood Press, 1992. 250 copies handset and printed by Stauffacher. Set in the original 17th century Baroque types cut by the Hungarian punch-cutter Nicholas Kis, in Amsterdam, 1686. Printed on Mohawk Superfine paper on a Swiss Gietz Platen press. Bound by Klaus-Ullrich S. Rötzscher. Printing completed January 1990. Accompanied by a supplement titled: The Continuity of Horace, compiled by Stauffacher. The English translation was printed by Stauffacher in 1990, but this book with accompanying supplement was not released until June 1992.

Hoyt, Shelley. Typographic Prints: 1980 to 1984. Berkeley, CA: Shelley Hoyt Editions; Hitchin, Herts, England: Red Gull Press, 1987.

Introduction by Stauffacher, the Greenwood Press.

Spiegelberg, Frederic. The Religion of No-religion. Stanford, CA: J. L. Delkin, 1948.

Alchemy blocks cut by Jack W. Stauffacher. Printed at the Greenwood Press, San Francisco

Stauffacher, Jack W. Adrian Wilson, 1923-1988. San Francisco, CA: Book Club of California, 1988.

Printed by The Greenwood Press. Includes letter to Stauffacher from Wilson, and epilogue by Stauffacher.

———. Announcement: 1955-1966. San Francisco, CA: The Greenwood Press, 1966.

Stauffacher announces the reopening of the Greenwood Press.

———. Anton Francesco Doni: Reflections on a Florentine Printer. Berkeley, CA: The Bancroft Library Press, 2011.

———. California Design, 1930-1965, Living in a Modern Way, Pacific Standard Time, Oral History Interviews. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2010-2011, accessed 14 March 2015. http://rosettaapp.getty.edu:1801/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE522602

———.Center for Typographic Language. San Francisco, CA: The Greenwood Press, 2007.

———.A Chronological History of the Greenwood Press 1935-1973. San Francisco, CA: The Greenwood Press, 1972.

Limited edition of 250 copies, printed by Jack W. Stauffacher and Lucy Dines at the Greenwood Press.

———. Homage to Alberto Tallone, 1898-1968. San Francisco, CA: The Greenwood Press, 1972.

Reprinted from Visible Language, 6 (Winter 1972). Keepsake for the Stanley Morison Memorial Lecture Series, Heritage of the Graphic Arts, November 29, 1972, New York, and also for the Pittsburgh Bibliophiles lecture on The Greenwood Press, November 30, 1972. Handset in University Old Style types & printed on an iron handpress by Kurt Beals, Jack Gedney, Natasha Goldie, Ofri Oren, Ginger Testerman, and Eve Wolynes, directed by Les Ferriss. Forty-five copies were sewn into Canson wrappers by the printers. The text & notes were prepared for the press by Jack W. Stauffacher and Les Ferriss.

———. Greenwood Press Collection of Ephemera, 1991-2006. San Francisco, CA: Greenwood Press, 1991-2006.

Prospectuses for books, type specimens, broadsides, keepsakes, and catalog of published books, dating from 1991-2006 in the collecton of the Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

———. Jack Werner Stauffacher Book Jacket Collection, 1964-1966. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Library, 1964-1966.

Book jackets designed by Stauffacher for titles published by the Stanford University Press.

———. Jack Werner Stauffacher Papers, 1940-2008. The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, BANC MSS 2006/163.

———. Janson, a Definitive Collection. San Francisco: Greenwood Press, 1954.

Type-specimen book, with introductory essay by Jack Werner Stauffacher.

———. Open Letter 1. San Francisco, CA: The Greenwood Press, 1973.

———. The New Laboratory Press. Pittsburgh, PA: The New Laboratory Press, 1963.

———. Phaedrus: a Search for the Typographic Form of Plato's Phaedrus. San Francisco: Greenwood Press, 1978.

Issued as Supplement to the Greenwood Press ed. of Plato's Phaedrus (1976), which it is intended to accompany.

———. Porter Garnett: Philosophical Writings on the Ideal Book. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1994.

———. Positive & Negative Spaces & Figure Ground Relationship with Wooden Letters.

Berkeley: College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, 1996.

Environmental Design 10A. Fall 1996. Jack Stauffacher, lecturer. Looseleaf booklet consisting of printed letters in various shadings of red and black and arranged in various shapes to create the illusion of depth.

———. A Specimen Book of TypeFaces Available at Typographic Workshop 17, the College of the San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, [1965]

———. A Typographic Journey: the History of the Greenwood Press and

Bibliography, 1934-2000; bibliography by Glenn Humphreys. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1999. Book Club of California; no. 210.

———. Wooden letters from 300 Broadway. San Francisco: Greenwood Press, 1998.

1 portfolio, Letters printed in various colors, Limited ed. of 15 suites. Specimen sheets of a mixed assortment of sixty-six 19th century types, used by the Greenwood Press to print broadsides.

——— and Robert Bennet Forbes. Bicycle Polo, Techniques and Fundamentals. San Mateo, CA: The Greenwood Press, 1942.

Designed and printed by Jack W. Stauffacher. Limited to 500 copies.

———, John D. Berry, and Dennis Letbetter. The Vico Collaboration. San Francisco, CA: The Greenwood Press, 2004.

Describes the artistic collaboration between Letbetter and Stauffacher, inspired by Vico's Principi di una Scienza Nuova, leading to the publication of 2 portfolios of photos and prints under the title The Vico Collaboration (Greenwood Press, 2003).

——— and Robert D. Harlan. Jack Werner Stauffacher, "The Word, Bearer of our Confessions:" the Greenwood Press 1968-1996, an interview. Berkeley, CA: Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, University of California, 1997, accessed 14 March 2015. https://archive.org/details/wordbearerconfe00jackrich

The interview, conducted in 1996, updates a 1969 interview by the Regional Oral History Office, published in 1970 under title: Jack Werner Stauffacher, "A Printed Word Has its Own Measure."

——— and Dennis Letbetter. The Beams of Montaigne’s Library. San Francisco: The Greenwood Press, 1996.

Photograph of Montaigne's library taken 1990, and printed 1996 by Dennis Letbetter on gold chloride toned printing-out paper. 150 copies have been handset & printed by Jack W. Stauffacher in Nicholas Kis types on Rives mould made papers at the Greenwood Press, San Francisco. Binding by Foolscap Press.

——— and Ruth Teiser. Jack Werner Stauffacher, “A Printed Word Has its Own Measure;” an Interview. Berkeley, CA: Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1969, accessed 14 March 2015. https://archive.org/details/printedwordhasit00staurich

——— and Hermann Zapf. Hunt Roman: the Birth of a Type. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Bibliophiles, 1965.

Torrentino, Lorenzo. A Dedication to a Merchant from a Florentine Printer in 1549: in Firenze. San Francisco: Greenwood Press, 1972.

Reprint of the printer Torrentino's dedication to Bartolomeo Bettini in Benedetto Varchi's Due Lezzioni, 1549, with a prefatory note by Stauffacher. Handset in Janson-Antiqua types & printed on a Vandercook press by Jack & Mario Stauffacher. Keepsake created in honor of joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs in San Francisco, Sept. 9-10, 1972.

University of California, Santa Cruz. Cowell Press Printing Samples Collection, 1970--. Santa Cruz, CA: Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1970-- .

Miscellaneous printing exercises produced at the Cowell Press under the direction of Peter Manston, Jack Stauffacher and George Kane as well as guest teachers. Finding aid, accessed 14 March 2015. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt858023kr/

Valéry, Paul. Arch / Paul Valéry. Sebastopol, CA: Holly Downing, 2009.

An excerpt of a dialogue from Eupalinos, or the Architect by Paul Valéry, with five mezzotint engravings by Holly Downing. Thirty-five books printed on Rives BFK. 
Printed by Holly Downing and Kathleen Watson at Downing's studio in Sebastopol, CA.  Handset in Méridien types by Jack Stauffacher at the Greenwood Press, San Francisco. Binding by Foolscap Press, Santa Cruz, Calif.

Vico, Giambattista. Vico Duodecimo Axiom 65, Principi di una Scienza Nuova, LXV. San Francisco: Greenwood Press, 2006.

Photos by Dennis Letbetter; printed by Jack W. Stauffacher.

Walker, Franklin. The Seacoast of Bohemia: an Account of Early Carmel. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1966.

Publication of the Book Club of California; no. 122. Printed by Graham Mackintosh;

Designed by Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press.

Wilson, Adrian. And Who Wants Peace? Adrian Wilson at the Greenwood Press; Letters to His Parents, from San Francisco, 1947-1948. Berkeley, CA: The Bancroft Library Press, 2012.

Introduction by Stauffacher. Handset in University Old Style types and printed on an Albion handpress by Julie Ann Nepomuceno, Rosalinda Medrano, Robin Goralka, Paul Joseph Wells, Martha Avtandilian, Tiffany Lynn Xu, Megan D. Scott, Amberley Main, Adrienne Chiu, Aucher Serr, and Joshua White, directed by Les Ferriss.

BOOKS & VIDEOS—ABOUT

Beck, Bruce, Pam Beck and Trisha Hammer. The American Center for Design is Honored to Present the Middleton Award to Jack Stauffacher…Evanston, IL: Turtle Press, 1991.

Carnegie Institute of Technology. School of Printing Management Records, 1913-1979, 1928-1963. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1913-1979.

Faris, Jim. Jack Stauffacher, Printer [videorecording]. San Francisco, Calif.: Jim Faris, 2002.

Commentaries by Jim Faris, Jack Stauffacher, Chuck Byrne and Dennis Letbetter.

Biographical documentary on the life and work of Jack Stauffacher, the founder of Greenwood Press.

Kirshenbaum, Sandra. Five Fine Printers: Jack Stauffacher, Adrian Wilson, Richard Bigus, Andrew Hoyem, William Everson : an exhibition, February 22-April 10, 1979, University of California, Davis. Davis, CA: Library Associates of the University Library, Davis. ; Memorial Union Art Gallery (University of California, Davis); University of California, Davis.; Committee for Arts and Lectures.

Letbetter, Dennis. Book Shelves from the Greenwood Press. San Francisco: Editions Michel Eyquem, 2007.

Photographs by Letbetter of every book shelf at the press, exposed in 2006. In addition to the still photographs are two IPIX Photo Bubble panoramic photos.

McBride, John. Jack Werner Stauffacher: the Years Away, 1955-1963. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco Center for the Book, 2001.

Accompanying an exhibition encompassing discoveries, friendships & projects of those years away from the West Coast ... September 7 through November 2, 2001.

Peskin, Aaron. Proclamation, City and County of San Francisco. San Francisco, CA: 2006.

ARTICLES—BY

Stauffacher, Jack Werner. "Giovanni Battista Bracelli: Bizzarie di Varie Figure,” Graphis 14, (August 1958): 350-353.

———. “The Transylvanian Phoenix: the Kis-Janson Types in the Digital Era,” Visible Language 19, no. 1 (Winter 1985): 61-76.

“Homage to Alberto Tallone, 1898-1968,” Visible Language, 6, no. 1 (Winter 1972): 81-89.

———. "The Transylvanian Phoenix: the Kis-Janson Types in the Digital Era." Visible Language 19, no. 1 (Winter 1985): 61-76.

———. “Typographic Remarks,” American Book Collector 2, no. 3 (July-August 1981): 37-39.

——— and Weinberg, R. C. "Justification: Typography; with Reply by J. W. Stauffacher." Landscape: A Magazine Of Human Geography 18, no. 2 (Spring 1969): 47.

ARTICLES–ABOUT

Bergstraesser, Arnold, Review of J.W. Goethe, Fifteen Letters from Switzerland by B.W. Morgan, Monatshefte 42, no. 2 (February 1950): 121.

Bostick, William A. "Philosophical Writings on the Ideal Book,” (Book Review) Letter Arts Review 12, no. 1 (March 1995): 58.

———. Review of Porter Garnett: Philosophical Writings on the Ideal Book. Letter Arts Review 12, no. 1 (1995): 58.

Byrne, Chuck, "Jack W. Stauffacher, Printer, &c." Emigre no. 45 (Winter1998): 16-31.

Carter, Sebastian, “Hunt Roman, “ Matrix 29 (Summer 2010): 82-87.

Brief history of Hunt Roman type, designed by German typeface designer Hermann Zapf at the suggestion of Jack Werner Stauffacher.

De Vries, Gerrit Jacob. "A Commentary on the Phaedrus of Plato." Philosophy 28 (107):365- (1969).

Graalfs, Gregory, “Its Unique Legacy: Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz,” Ampersand 23, no. 1 (Fall 2005): 6-9.

"Greenwood Press, S.F. Reopens After Eleven Years." Publishers Weekly 190, (September 5, 1966): 122.

Johnston A.M., “Jack Werner Stauffacher, Typographer,” Fine Print 5, no. 1 (January 1979): 1-6.

Hawkins, Ann W, "[Inscriptions at the Old Public Library of San Francisco]." Letter Arts Review 19, no. 2 (April 2004): 55-59.

Review of exhibition of same title edited by Jack Werner Stauffacher.

Koch, Peter, “Three Philosophical Printers: William Everson, Jack Stauffacher, and Adrian Wilson,” Parenthesis 19 (September 2010): 12-17.

Lambert, Robert, Filmgraphics: Documentaries on Campus,” College Composition and Communication 14, no. 1 (February 1963): 25-27.

Discusses 1961 series of documentary films called Filmgraphics organized by Stauffacher at Carnegie Tech.

McKitterick, David, Review of A Typographic Journey: the History of the Greenwood Press, Book Collector

Nelson, Victoria, "Designing literature: stones on the riverbed—Jack Stauffacher's typographic art." Fine Print 14, (April 1988): 92-93.

Reflection on how Stauffacher asked her to print a letterpress edition of her book Queen of Hearts through his Greenwood Press, which introduced her to a publishing experience unlike that most writers encounter in the U.S..

“The Middleton Award: Jack Werner Stauffacher,” Statements 6, no. 3 (March 1991): 28-29.

Profile of Stauffacher, recipient of American Center for Design’s award for lifetime achievement in the typographic arts.

Nelson, Victoria, “Designing Literature: Stones on the Riverbed—Jack Stauffacher’s Typographic Art,” Fine Print 14, no. 2 (April 1988): 92-93.

“Poster Competition Results,” Film Quarterly 18, no. 3 (Spring 1965): 10-12.

Stauffacher was chair of a committee of judges in a film poster contest.

S., F.A. Review of Huntia by G.H.M. Lawrence, Taxon 16, no. 1 (February 1967): 51.

Stauffacher set type for Carnegie Tech’s 1st 2 volumes of Huntia.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, “The Rebel Art Camus: Twenty-Five Typographic Meditations,” Modern Painters 20, no. 6 (July/August 2008):28.

Overview of exhibition “246 and Counting,” which features architecture and design objects in the collection of SF MoMa, including Stauffacher’s Camus.

Shaw, Paul and Stephen Coles, “Ruder’s Univers, Weingart’s Akzidenz, Vignelli’s Haas, Brodovitch’s Didone,” Print 65, no. 5 (October 2011): 38-39.

Includes discussion about Stauffacher’s use of Janson types.

Taylor, Michael, “The Greenwood Press,” Fine Print 11, no. 2 (April 1985): 116.

Information about the art techniques in the production of the book "Dix poèmes/Ten Poems" by Francis Ponge, printed by Stauffacher.

Taylor, Michael. "The Greenwood Press,” Fine Print 11, no. 2 (April 1985): 116.

Ulrich, Ferdinand P., “The Hunt Roman Quadriga: How Four Printing Workshops Rescued an Almost Forgotten Typeface,” Parenthesis 25 (September 2013): 16-18.