Jane Grabhorn: Fine letterpress printer, designer, bookbinder and publisher

by Jocelyn H. Cohen

$20 · Offered by Bolerium Books

San Francisco: Joss Press, 1990. 4p., very good in wire-spiral-bound wraps, 8.5x11 inches, b&w facsimiles in a running text. Having married Robert Grabhorn in 1932, Martha Jane Bissell was pressed into service; by 1937, under her own imprint, Jumbo Press, she printed books, pamphlets, broadsides and ephemera. While the name Jumbo came from the small hobby presses, she actually did all the work on Grabhorn Press equipment. Jumbo was full of wit and humor;

• Binding: Spiral-bound

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