For years Marlan Beilke produced broadsides featuring the writings of Robinson Jeffers. Years back I announced that I had obtained several rare Jeffers’ broadsides that were letterpress printed in California by Mr. Beilke. I posted information about them on my website and several promptly sold out. Recently, Mr. Beilke came upon another of his famous […]
Marlan Beilke (known in letterpress printing lore as Linomarl) paid tribute to his beloved Linotype machine with a pair of broadsides. Workiing in his Amador City, California letterpress shop, Mr. Beilke became famous for his many printed books and broadsides. I have a few copies of two of his Linotyupe broadsides. When they are gone, […]
Letterpress printed, limited-edition broadside of Robinson Jeffers’s reading from The Inhumanist. Hot -metal typeset and letterpress printed by Linomarl Marlan Beilke. Measures approximately 14 X 22. 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]