Item #9081 Westport House Archive featuring To Hades We Will Go and Ten Cards. Christmas, Wallace J. Bonk, Private Press, University of Michigan, Jane Howlon Black.
Westport House Archive featuring To Hades We Will Go and Ten Cards
Westport House Archive featuring To Hades We Will Go and Ten Cards
Westport House Archive featuring To Hades We Will Go and Ten Cards

Westport House Archive featuring To Hades We Will Go and Ten Cards

Ann Arbor, Michigan: Westport House, ca 1959 - 1969. 10 bifolium cards measuring 14.5cm x 11.5cm. One book 15cm x 11cm, cardstock wraps, string bound. Some signed, some with other notes laid in.

Archive of materials from Westport House, also sometimes credited as "La Presse Sous-Sol" [The Basement Press] of Wallace and Joyce Bonk in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

"Wally" was a professor at the University of Michigan for 25 years, served as the chairman of the department of library sciences, and was considered an expert in building library collections. Joyce was a librarian and served as the assistant curator of books at the UM Clements Library for over 35 years.


The card dated October 25 has a handwritten note laid in that says "This is the first product of my newly-acquired press...I hope I will be able to improve the product." This card and one other Christmas card are unnumbered and presumed to be cards 1 and 2. The rest of the cards are given a general number and also grouped into categories such as Historical Series, Literary Series, and Christmas Series. This archive contains General Numbers [1,2] 3, 5-10, 13. 

It also contains a copy of To Hades We Will Go (Westport Book II) by Jane Howlon Black - actually an anagram for the publisher, Wallace John Bonk. Laid in is an announcement of the cancellation of the Westport card series in spring of 1962 to publish this book with an attached specimen page as well as an address correction card. 
. Item #9081

Price: $125.00

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