I have been silent for a few weeks, and for that I apologize. I have had a heavy load of book work and, to top that off, I was presented with a treasure-trove of broadsides printed by my friend Linomarl Marlan Beilke who asked me to offer them for sale. Most of the broadsides he […]
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Robinson Jeffers lives through these recently uncovered broadsides
Years ago two Californians crossed paths–one a writer and the other an old-time printer–and together they immortalized each other. The two are Robinson Jeffers and Marlan Beilke. Last summer Oak Knoll Press published His Place for Story: An Annotated Robinson Jeffers Bibliography compiled and written by Michael Broomfield. Charles Simic described the book as a “A marvelously […]
Thirty-five words that explain so much about life
When I happened upon a quote one day many months back, I realized I had to know more about the man, Antione de Saint-Exupery, who had penned it. My research revealed that he was a rather amazing guy. This French author, pilot, journalist and aristocrat was born in 1900 and died forty-four years later when […]
Is God alive? Just ask Nietzsche. Or, maybe, better to see what God says!
God died, Nietzsche reported in 1883. Wait, not so fast there Mr. Nietzsche! Sometimes statements capture the essence of theology and philosophy with brevity, with insight and with humor. I came across one some months back and decided it needed to be letterpress printed into a broadside. You can click on it here for more […]
More Robinson Jeffers’s treasures uncovered
A few days ago I listed a couple of the rare Robinson Jeffers’s broadsides of his poetry and promised to list more as I had the time to put the information together. If you missed that listing, you can check here to see the first announcement. These broadsides were printed in the 1990’s by Marlan Beilke […]
Robinson Jeffers’s treasure trove discovered!.
This past week I uncovered some rare Robinson Jeffers letterpress-printed broadsides. There are only a few of these beauties remaining. In the coming days I will be listing each of them in my blog posts. These broadsides are available on a first-come, first-serve basis and when they are gone, as the saying goes, they are GONE. […]
Rare Linotype broadsides discovered
I have discovered a pair of rare broadsides celebrating the eighth-wonder-of-the-world, the Linotype. These were designed, typeset and printed by Marlan Beilke, otherwise known as Linomarl. Marlan printed these broadsides during the years he operated his print shop/museum in Amador City, California. He later moved to Wisconsin. When he closed his California hot metal heaven […]