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The Lost World of Craft Printer (Folklore and Society) (Hardcover)

by Maggie Holtzberg-call (Author) "I've been to wakes where they couldn't get the ink off the corpse's fingers," Ed Jacob said..." (more)
Key Phrases: cold composition, paste makeup, occupational narrative, New York, Bob Culp, Inland Printer (more...)

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Hardcover: 227 pages
Publisher: University of Illinois Press (March 1, 1992)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0252017994
ISBN-13: 978-0252017995
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
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cold composition, paste makeup, occupational narrative, tramp printer, etaoin shrdlu, digital typesetting, hand compositor, union printers, foundry type, composing stick, typographical union, journeymen printers, cold type, composing room, letterpress printing, folklore scholarship, halftone dots, hand composition, journeyman printer, printing trade, hot type

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New York, Bob Culp, Inland Printer, Union Printers Home, Dick Harrison, Dan Burns, Earl Powell, Heritage Printers, International Typographical Union, Amelia Story, Colorado Springs, Carl Schlesinger, Joe Malady, Bertram Powers, Bill Loftin, Fil Valdez, Tony Donaghy, Carl Gross, Jim Spurlock, John Peckham, Mechanick Exercises, The Hot-Metal Process, American Printer, Benjamin Franklin, Frank Koncel

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Rabbit Redux by John Updike on 5 pages
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Case Studies on the Labor Process by Andrew Zimbalist on page 24, page 125, and page 149
Five Hundred Years of Printing by S. H. Steinberg in Front Matter, page 12, and page 23

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American Folklore: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 1551) by Jan Brunvand on page 593

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