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Guide to the Robert E. Bason / Capra Press records Printers Mss 59
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Guide to the Robert E. Bason / Printers Mss 59 1 Capra Press records Printers Mss 59 Title: Robert E. Bason Capra Press records Identifier/Call Number: Printers Mss 59 Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Collections Language of Material: English Physical Description: 23.0 linear feet(17 cartons, 4 document boxes, 5 oversize boxes, and 1 map folder). Date (inclusive): circa 1969-2004 Abstract: The collection contains files from the earlier years when Noel Young owned and operated Capra Press, and later years when Robert [Bob] E. Bason owned and operated it. Physical Location: Boxes 1-13, 15-19 (SRLF); Boxes 14, 20, 23 , 24, 25, 26 (Del Sur); Boxes 21-22 (Oversize - Annex 2); Map Folder (Map Cabinet 21/9). Language of Materials: The collection is in English. creator: Bason, Robert E. creator: Young, Noel Access Restrictions Most materials stored off-site, advance notice required for retrieval. No further reproduction of manuscripts from Series II, Subseries: Miscellaneous Manuscripts is permitted without written permission from the author or heirs. Use Restrictions Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained. Preferred Citation [identification of item], Robert E. Bason / Capra Press Records. Printers Mss 59. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara. Acquisition Information Gift of Robert E. Bason, 2005. Scope and Content The collection contains files from the earlier years when Noel Young owned and operated Capra Press, and later years when Robert [Bob] E. Bason owned and operated it. Arrangement Series I: Capra Press / Noel Young Years - contains the following subseries: 1. Business /Working Files. Primarily business records such as contracts, distribution and sales reports, signed correspondence, reviews, printing contracts and orders, royalty statements, and other related materials. Subseries are: Back-to-Back Series (including Edward Abbey, Raymond Carver, Gretel Ehrlich, Tess Gallagher , Ursula LeGuin, Anaïs Nin, Lawrence Clark Powell, and Thomas Sanchez); Special Authors (including Raymond Carver, Urusla Le Guin, Henry Miller, and Lawrence Clark Powell); and Working Titles (a mix of files organized by working title or author, including Edward Abbey, Raymond Carver, Barnaby Conrad, Gretel Ehrlich, Brian Fagan, Frank Frost, Tess Gallagher, David Gebhard, Frank Kelly, Ursula Le Guin, Ken Millar, Margaret Millar, Anais Nin, John Sanford, Max Schott, and Clifton F. Smith). Boxes 1-6. 2. Correspondence - General. Mainly incoming author and business correspondence of Capra Press through 2001. Correspondents include: Edward Abbey, Gerald Durrell, Gretel Ehrlich, Tess Gallagher, Frank Kelly, David Krieger, Ursula LeGuin, Bradford Murrow, Daniel Pearlman, Lawrence Clark Powell, Ward Ritchie, John Sanford, Ralph Sipper, and Joseph Wambaugh. Box 7. 3. Distributor Files. Includes Consortium Records (dealings with Consortium, the distributor for Capra books, as well as reports, agreements, and annual files) and Special Accounts (foreign rights, distribution rights, and records). Boxes 8-9. 4. Publicity and Review Files. Include publicity releases, copies of reviews and other publicity information; some public relations questionnaires filled out by the authors; oftentimes pictures of authors, author correspondence regarding publicity, alternative covers and design elements, and other miscellaneous PR information. Arranged, for the most part, by title. Boxes 10-12.
Guide to the Robert E. Bason / Printers Mss 59 2 Capra Press records Printers Mss 59 5. Miscellaneous Business Materials. Includes later publicity and promo materials, as well as accounting and inventory information, and contracts. Box 13. 6. Photographs - of Capra authors, Capra offices and elsewhere of Capra displays. Box 14. Series II: Capra Press/ Robert E. Bason Years. 1. Manuscript Files. Mainly manuscript drafts of works, some with corrections and annotations, along with some proofs, advertising, sample covers, and related materials, for more recent Capra publications, 2000-2004. Boxes 15-19. 2. Miscellaneous Manuscripts - not published by Capra Press. Mainly uncorrected typed manuscripts, along with some supporting correspondence, and related materials. Boxes 19-20. Series III: Oversize. Includes posters, broadsides, and signs, mainly relating to Capra publications. Boxes 21-22 and Map Cabinet 21/9. Series IV: Computer Files. Box 23. Related Material At UCSB: 1. Young [Noel] / Capra Press Collection, ca. 1930s-1970s. (Printers Mss 46). 2. Young [Noel] / Capra Press Oral History, 1983. Interviews with the Santa Barbara publisher. (OH 104). At Other Institutions: 1. Lilly Library, Indiana University Subjects and Indexing Terms Bason, Robert E. Capra Press Young, Noel Authors, American--20th century Correspondence Manuscripts Photographs Private libraries--California Publishers and publishing--United States--California
Capra Press / Noel Young Years Series I.
Business / Working Files
Back-to Back Series Scope and Contents note Arranged alphabetically by title or author - can include contracts, correspondence, distribution and sales reports, printing contracts and orders, royalty statements, and other related materials.
Box 1 Abbey, Edward - Confessions of a Barbarian / Jack Curtis - Red Knife Valley Box 1 Amster, Lew - The Killer Instinct and Other Stories from the Great Depression / Sanora Babb - The Dark Earth and Other Stories from the Great Depression Box 1 Carver, Raymond, and Tess Gallagher - Dostoevsky: A Screenplay / Ursula Le Guin - King Dog: A Screenplay Box 1 Coover, Robert - Aesop's Forest / Brian Swann - The Plot of Mice Box 1 Eastlake, William - Prettyfields: A Work in Progress / Gerald W. Haslam - The Man Who Cultivated Fire and Other Stories Box 1 Ehrlich, Gretel - In a Life's Work / Rick Base - Wild to the Heart (not published) Box 1 Gold, Herbert - Stories of Misbegotten Love / Don Asher - Angel on My Shoulder: Stories
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Box 1 Hoagland, Edward - City Tales / Gretel Ehrlich - Wyoming Stories Box 1 Houston, James D. - One Can Think about Life after the Fish Is in the Canoe / Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston - Beyond Manzanar Box 1 LeGuin, Ursula - The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine / Scott R. Sanders - Wonders Hidden - Audubon's Early Years Box 1 Nin, Anaïs - The White Blackbird and Other Stories / Kanoko Okamoto - The Tale of an Old Geisha and Other Stories Box 1 Sanchez, Thomas - Angels Burning: Native Notes from the Land of Earthquake and Fire / Lawrence Clark Powell - Ocian in View Special Authors Scope and Contents note Arranged alphabetically by author - can include contracts, correspondence, distribution and sales reports, printing contracts and orders, royalty statements, and other related materials.
Carver, Raymond Box 1 General (incl. termination of contract with Tess Gallagher) Box 1 Fires [extensive correspondence with Tess Gallagher, incl. the Italian lawsuit] Box 1 Remembering Ray: A Composite Biography of Raymond Carver (by William L. Stull and Maureen P. Carroll) Easton, Robert Box 1 General [incl. extensive correspondence] Box 1 Happy Man [incl. extensive author correspondence] Box 1 This Promised Land Le Guin, Ursula Box 1 Buffalo Girls Miller, Henry [by] Box 1 Book of Friends Box 1 Correspondence [mostly copies of extensive correspondence between Miller and Capra Press] Box 1 Correspondence with Miller heirs, copies of Miller/Capra contracts, etc. Box 1 Henry and Friends Box 1 Joey Box 1 My Bike and other Friends Box 1 The Paintings of Henry Miller: Paint as You Like and Die Happy Box 1 Sextet Box 1 The World of Lawrence Box 1 Miscellany file Miller, Henry [about] Box 1 Fielding, Blair - Nothing but the Marvelous Box 1 Hargraves, Michael - Henry Miller's Hamlet Letters Box 1 Martin, Jay - Always Bright and Merry Box 1 Thiebaud, Twinka (ed.) - Reflections: Henry Miller Powell, Lawrence Clark Box 1 Blue Train [incl. extensive correspondence between Powell and Young] Box 1 Orange Grove Boyhood Box 1 Portrait of My Father Box 1 Miscellaneous papers, including contracts for California Classics and several other works of Powell, published by Capra Working Titles Scope and Contents note Arranged alphabetically by title or author - can include contracts, distribution and sales reports, signed correspondence, reviews, printing contracts and orders, royalty statements, and other related materials, some for works not published.
Box 2 'A' - incl. Edward Abbey and Jack Adler
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Box 2 Aging Is a Lifelong Affair - Ben Weininger Box 2 Arctic Heart - Gretel Ehrlich [working production file] Box 2 Art and Fear - Bayles & Orland Box 2 [Back] Relieve Your Back Pain Now - Miller and Opie Box 2 Bats - Amanda Lollar Box 2 Bear Stories - Joaquin Miller Box 2 Beast in the Mirror: Ligabue - Karin Jones Box 2 Birdwatching - Joan Easton Lentz Box 2 Black Sun - Edward Abbey [working production file, contract] Box 2 Blaze Allen - Lillian Bos Ross Box 2 Blue Deer - David Dahl Box 2 Book of Days - Elizabeth Pepper Box 2 Boyle, Kaye - Gentlemen, I Address You Privately Box 2 Branson, Clark - Howard Hawks: A Jungian Study Box 2 Brown, James-Paul - The Paintings of James-Paul Brown Box 2 'C' - incl. Andrei Codrescu Box 2 California Magazine - The Best of California Box 2 California Coastal Passages - Brian Fagan Box 2 Capra Chapbook Anthology - Noel Young (ed.) Box 2 Cat Hair Everywhere - Ron Ellsworth Box 2 Celebrations - Judy Young Box 2 Champagne, et al - Arthur von Wiesenberger Box 2 Cholos - Jack Lopez Box 2 Civilization and Welcome to It - Burt Prelutsky Box 2 Couch Potato - Jack Mingo Box 2 County Fair - Mikkel Aaland Box 2 Craft, Christine [incl. correspondence from Marilyn Yalom] Box 2 [Crosby] Caresse Crosby: From Black Sun to Castello de Roccasinibalda - Anne Conover Carson Box 2 Crossword Crosstalk - Tunick and Bursztyn Box 2 'D' - incl. Downstream from Troutfishing (about Richard Brautigan), by Keith Abbott and A Day Hiker's Guide to Southern California, by John McKinney Box 2 Dead Philadelphians - Frank Frost Box 2 Disappearance of Japan - J. D. Brown Box 2 Dr. Salaam - Padma Perera Box 2 Dreamscapes Box 2 'E' - incl. Hot Tubs, by Leon Elder (aka Noel Young) Box 2 Eating and Drinking in France: French Menu Reader and Restaurant Guide - Andy Herbach and Michael Dillon Box 2 Eating and Drinking in Italy: Italian Menu Reader and Restaurant Guide - Andy Herbach and Michael Dillon Box 2 Eating and Drinking in Spanish: Reading Menus in Spanish Speaking Countries - Andy Herbach and Michael Dillon Box 2 Edna's Nudes - Edna Bullock Box 2 Ehrlich, Gretel - Drinking Dry Clouds Box 2 El Campo - Juan Delgado Box 2 [Elephants] To Walk with Elephants - Pat Derby and Genaro Molina, and Peter Beagle Box 2 Everyday Almanac - Bob Perlongo Box 3 The Family Secret - Eleanore Hill (Meredith Bowers) Box 3 First Cat, Second Term - Elizabeth Nickles Box 3 Fitness Lite - William Burleigh Box 3 Flora of Santa Barbara - Clifton F. Smith [additional correspondence by Judy Sutcliffe] Box 3 Flowering Plants - Santa Monica Mountains Box 3 Foraging along the California Coast - Peter Howorth Box 3 'G' - incl. Barry Gifford Box 3 Garlic, Wine & Olive Oil - Thomas Pellechia
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Box 3 God and Mr. Gomez - Jack Smith Box 3 Gone to Sanctuary - John Kiewit Box 3 [Gopher] Conversations with a Pocket Gopher - Jack Schaefer Box 3 Gorey, Edward, and Peter Neumeyer - Sopping Thursday [extensive correspondence with Andreas Brown at Gotham Bookmart in NYC, acting as Gorey's agent and with Neumeyer and his lawyer] Box 3 Great Piers of California Box 3 [Gurdjieff] Boyhood with Gurdjieff - Fritz Peters Box 3 Hall, Leslie - Bad Girls Box 3 [Heart] Protect Your Heart from Your Doctor - Howard Wayne Box 3 Hillinger, Charles - America and California Counties Box 3 Hillinger - Characters Box 3 Hillinger [large file of letters (TLS)] Box 3 Hoagland, Edward - The Final Fate of the Alligators Box 3 Holmgren, Virginia - Owls in History and Legend, Hummingbirds, Raccoons Box 3 House Spirit - Anaïs Nin [incl. correspondence with Gunther Stuhlman, Nin's literary executor] Box 3 Houston, James - Gasoline Box 3 Hudson, W. H. - Bird Biographies Box 3 [Hummingbird] The Way of the Hummingbird - Virginia Holmgren [working production file] Box 3 Impressions - Claire Rabe Box 3 India: Behind the Mirror - Radha Rajagopal Sloss Box 3 Indian Running - Peter Nabokov Box 3 Intimacy - Edward Crowther and Gayle Stone (now Gale Lynds) Box 3 Islands: A Treasury of Writing from a Decade of Travels Box 3 James, Allston - Attic Light Box 3 Johnson, Kaufmann & Coate (printers) Box 3 Johnson, Robert - Thirteen Moons Box 3 Jordan, Richard - But Darling, I'm Your Auntie Mame Box 3 Joy of Birding - Charles Bernstein Box 3 'K' Box 3 Kaysing, Bill - Great Hot Springs of the West Box 3 Krieger, David - Waging Peace Box 4 'L' - incl. Ursula LeGuin Box 4 Learning to Love It - Tom Farber Box 4 Lee, Hector - Tamsen Donner [extensive correspondence and contract for book never published by Capra] Box 4 [Lehmann] Lotte Lehman - Beaumont Glass Box 4 Leigh, Carol - California Gardens Box 4 Lentz, Joan - Great Birding Trips Box 4 Lifship, Lyn - Lips Unsealed Box 4 Ligabue - Beast in the Mirror Box 4 Lincoln, Kenneth - A Writer's China Box 4 Long, Sam - Scissors Sam Box 4 'M' - incl. Ken Millar Box 4 Master of Line: John W. Winkler, American Etcher - Mary Millman and Dave Box 4 Matador - Barnaby Conrad [contract, etc.] Box 4 McCurdy, Michael - McCurdy's World Box 4 Mediterranean Architecture of Southern California - Alson Clark Box 4 Men Down West Box 4 Mendoza, Tony - A Photographer's Memoir, Ernie's Postcards, Dogs (postcard book) Box 4 Millar, Margaret - The Birds and the Beasts Were There Box 4 Millman, Lawrence - A Kayak Full of Ghosts [contracts for Kayak and Wolverine] Box 4 Mud, Space and Spirit - Virginia Gray Box 4 Mullin, Arthur - Spy Box 4 Murphy's Romance - Max Schott
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Box 4 [Music] Masters of Music - James Arkatov Box 4 Mystic of Sex - Anaïs Nin [substantial correspondence with Gunther Stuhlmann, Anaïs Nin Trustee; contract, working production file] Box 4 'N' Box 4 Natives in Exile - D. D. Harmon Box 4 Neff, Wallace - Wallace Neff, Master Architect [working production file, correspondence, contract] Box 4 Neutra, Richard - Nature Near [working production file, correspondence, signed contract with Dione Neutra, etc.] Box 4 News at Ten - Stan Chambers [working production file, signed contract, correspondence, etc.] Box 4 Nine Lives of Algernon - John Espey [contract and working production file] Box 4 Nothing but the Marvelous (Henry Miller) - Blair Fielding [signed contract, working production file, royalty reports, etc.] Box 4 [Nutrition] Your Whole Nutrition Book - Nan Bronfe Box 4 'O' Box 4 Owls - Virginia C. Holmgren [working production file] Box 4 'P' Box 4 Paintings of James-Paul Brown Box 4 [Park] The New Figurative Art of David Park - Paul Chadbourne Mills Box 4 The Path: Metaphysics for the 90s Box 4 Plain Talk about Fine Wine - Justin Meyer Box 4 Popular Art - Peter Morse Box 4 Portable Kisses - Tess Gallagher [working production file, extensive correspondence with Gallaher and Writer's Union over breach of contract for the sale to Borgo editions] Box 4 [Praise] In Praise of Wine - Joni McNutt Box 4 [Presence] In the Presence of Elephants - Peter S. Beagle Box 5 Raccoons - Virginia C. Holmgren [working production file] Box 5 Racks - David Petersen [working production file, contract] Box 5 [Riggs] Lutah Maria Riggs - David Gebhard [working production file, contract, royalty reports, correspondence] Box 5 'S' File [out of court settlement on Skunk Ranch; contract on Shaggy Dog - Koehler; correspondence and contracts for Claire Rabe on Sicily Enough; correspondence, contract, sales reports for Saloons of San Francisco - Chamberlin; same for Sherlock Slept Here] Box 5 Santa Barbara Architecture, 2nd edition (1980) [working production files, contracts, correspondence, etc.] Box 5 Santa Barbara Architecture, 3rd edition - Wayne McCall, et al [4 files: working production file, royalty statements, correspondence] Box 5 Schott, Max - Murphy's Romance [working production file, contract] Box 5 Seeing Europe - Elaine Kendall [contract, working production file] Box 5 Self-Portrait - Ross Macdonald [mainly sales reports; one also for On Crime Writing] Box 5 Short-Cuts - Robert Altman, et al [working production file, extensive correspondence with Tess Gallagher, contracts] [also a file under Altman] Box 5 Shortcuts on Wine - Edmond Masciana [working production file, contract, sales reports, correspondence, etc.] Box 5 Sicily Enough and More - Claire Rabe [working production file, contract] Box 5 Small Wonders - Shannon Will [working production file, contract, etc.] Box 5 [Stacy-Judd] Robert Stacy-Judd - David Gebhard [working production file] Box 5 The Stranger in Big Sur - Lillian Bos Ross Box 5 Sushi - Suzen [working production file, contract, correspondence, etc.] Box 5 Trails of the Sierra Madre - Eugene Boudreau Box 5 Thayer, Carl - Goodrich Box 5 [Turkeys] House of Three Turkeys - Dave Bohn Box 5 Tway, Linda - Tidepools of Southern California Box 5 Tides in Time - Douglas Isaac Busch
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Box 5 The Toilet Papers - Sim Van Der Ryn Box 5 True Bear Stories - Joaquin Miller Box 5 [Truman] Harry Truman and the Human Family - Frank Kelly Box 5 Unwritten History: Life amongst the Modocs - Joaquin Miller Box 5 [View] Sanford, John - A More Goodly Country and View from This Wilderness [working production files, book orders, contract, no correspondence] Box 5 Vintage Talk - Dennis Schaefer Box 5 Voices of Survival in the Nuclear Age - Dennis Paulson Box 5 Voyageurs of the Midnight Sun - Dan Cushman [incl. extensive correspondence with Jon Tuska on the proposed Western Series, and correspondence with John Jakes] Box 5 Waitress - Leon Elder [Noel Young] and Lin Rolens Box 5 We Have a Little Sister - Jon Sanford Box 5 Wildlife Protector's Handbook - Donald S. Heintzelman Box 5 [Wilson] Home of the Wilson Wildcats - Frank Van Schaick Box 5 Windowlight - Ann Nietzke Box 5 Wine and Dine - Ron Breitstein and Hendrik Van Leuven Box 5 Wine Country - William Heintz [contract, substantial correspondence, and settlement] Box 6 Witches Almanac - Elizabeth Papper [3 files] Box 6 Wolves, and Other Love Stories by Ivan Bunin - Mark Scott Box 6 Women in Printing - Roger Levenson Box 6 Women Writers of the West - Marilyn Yalom Box 6 Words - Grant Campbell Box 6 [Wright] The Seven Ages of Frank Lloyd Wright - Donald Hoppen [extensive handwritten correspondence from Hoppen] Box 6 Yanks Meet Reds - Mark Scott Box 6 Yoga for the Young at Heart - Susan Winter Ward [2 files] Box 6 Young Wolf - Jack London - Howard Lachtman
Correspondence - General Scope and Contents note Mainly incoming author and business correspondence of Capra Press through 2001.
Authors Box 7 A Box 7 Abbey, Edward Box 7 B Box 7 Back-to-Back (incl. Joseph Wambaugh) Box 7 C (incl. Christine Craft) Box 7 California Wine Club Box 7 D (incl. Bill Daniels, Gerald Durrell, Susan Dworski) Box 7 E (incl. William Eastlake, Gretel Ehrlich, John Espey) Box 7 F Box 7 G (incl. Tess Gallagher) Box 7 H (incl. Michael Hargraves, Gerald Haslam, Virginia Holmgren) Box 7 I Box 7 J (incl. Allston James, Erica Jong) Box 7 K (incl. Frank Kelly, Virginia Kidd, Ingeborg M. Knapp, David Krieger) Box 7 Kaysing, William Box 7 L (incl. Ursula LeGuin, Joan Lentz) Box 7 M (incl. Bradford Murrow) Box 7 N (incl. Dione Neutra) Box 7 Odell, Joshua S. Box 7 P (incl. Daniel Pearlman, Lawrence Clark Powell, Burt Prelutsky) Box 7 Porter, Bern Box 7 R (incl. Ward Ritchie, Anneli S. Rufus)
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Box 7 S (incl. John Sanford, Ralph Sipper, Gary Soto) Box 7 Sutcliffe, Judith Box 7 T Box 7 U Box 7 V Box 7 W Box 7 Wine Appreciation Guild Box 7 X-Y-Z (incl. Chayym Zeldis) Business Box 7 Agence Hoffmann Box 7 Bowker Box 7 National Endowment for the Arts - grants for literary publishing 1981-1988 Box 7 Nil, Stephen Christopher (attorney) - lawsuits involving Capra Press Box 7 Printers
Distributor files
Box 8 Consortium Records Scope and Contents note Includes records of all dealings with Consortium, the distributor for Capra Books, as well as reports and agreements. Also includes annual files.
Box 9 Special Accounts Scope and Contents note Includes information on foreign rights, distribution rights, and records.
Publicity and Review Files Scope and Contents note Include publicity releases, copies of reviews and other publicity information; some public relations questionnaires filled out by the authors; oftentimes pictures of authors, author correspondence regarding publicity, alternative covers and design elements, and other miscellaneous PR information. Arranged, for the most part, by title.
Box 10 Abbey, Edward - Confessions of a Barbarian / Jack Curtis - Red Knife Valley (Back-to-Back) Box 10 Alaska Man's Luck: Hjalmar Rutzebeck (1889-1980) Box 10 [Alligators] The Final Fate of the Alligators - Edward Hoagland Box 10 Always Merry, Always Bright - The Life of Henry Miller - Jay Martin Box 10 Arctic Heart - Gretel Ehrlich Box 10 Art & Fear - David Bayles and Ted Orland Box 10 Back-to-Back series Box 10 Bats in My Pocket - Amanda Lollar Box 10 The Best of California Box 10 Bird Biographies of W. H. Hudson Box 10 The Birds and the Beasts Were There - Margaret Millar Box 10 Birdwatching: A Guide for Beginners - Joan Easton Lentz and Judith Young Box 10 Black Sun - Edward Albee Box 10 Blaze Allan: A Novel of Big Sur - Lillian Bos Ross Box 10 The Bodega War - Hector Lee Box 10 Brendan Books Box 10 Buffalo Gals - Ursula K. Le Guin Box 10 California Classics - Lawrence Clark Powell Box 10 California Gardens - A Nature Lovers Guide - Carol Leigh Box 10 California's Gold Age - William Wollett
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Box 10 California Heartland: Writing from the Great Central Valley - Gerald W. Haslam and James D. Houston Box 10 Caresse Crosby: From Black Sun to Roccasinibalda - Conover, Anne Box 10 Carver, Raymond, and Tess Gallagher - Dostoevsky: A Screenplay / Ursula Le Guin - King Dog: A Screenplay Box 10 Cat Hair Everywhere - Ron Ellsworth Box 10 Celebrations - Judith Young Box 10 Champagne and Caviar: A Connoisseur's Survival Guide - Arthur Von Wiesenberger Box 10 Christine Craft: An Anchorwoman's Story - Christine Craft Box 10 Civilization, and Welcome to It - Burt Prelutsky Box 10 Conversations with a Pocket Gopher and Other Outspoken Neighbors - Jack Schaefer Box 10 Couch Potatoes - Jack Mingo Box 10 County Fair: Portraits Box 10 Crossword Crosstalk - Sylvia Bursztyn and Barry Tunick Box 10 Crosswords L.A. #4 Box 10 Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan - Keith Abbott Box 10 Dreamscapes and Hidden Faces - Joanne Freeman Box 10 Drinking Dry Clouds: Stories from Wyoming - Gretel Ehrlich Box 10 Edna's Nudes - Edna Bullock Box 10 Ernie's Postcard Book - Tony Mendoza Box 10 Ernie: A Photographer's Memoir - Tony Mendoza Box 10 The Evening Redness: The Collected Four Novels of Lawrence Clark Powell - Lawrence Clark Powell Box 10 Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories - Raymond Carver Box 10 Fitness Lite - William B. Burleigh Box 10 Flowering Plants... - Nancy Dale Box 10 Foraging along the Pacific Coast - Peter Howorth Box 10 From Skunk Ranch to Hollywood - Hal Evarts, Jr. Box 10 Gentlemen, I Address You Privately - Kay Boyle Box 10 [Gorey] Donald Has a Difficulty - Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer Box 10 The Great Auk - Allan W. Eckert Box 10 Great Birding Trips of the West - Joan Easton Lentz Box 10 Great Hot Springs of the West - Bill Kaysing Box 10 Great Piers of California: A Guided Tour - Jean Femling Box 10 The Happy Man - Robert Easton Box 10 Haslam, Gerald - The Man Who Cultivated Fire / William Eastlake - Pretty Fields Box 10 Henry & Friends: The California Years, 1946 to 1977 - William Webb Box 10 Henry Miller's Book of Friends, a Trilogy - Henry Miller Box 10 Henry Miller's Hamlet Letters - Michael Hargraves Box 10 Heroes, Villains and Ghosts - Hector Lee Box 10 Hoagland, Edward - City Tales / Gretel Ehrlich - Wyoming Stories Box 10 The House Spirt and Other Stories - Kanoka Kamoto Box 10 How to Protect Your Heart from Your Doctor - Howard H. Wayne Box 11 In Praise of Wine - Joni G. McNutt Box 11 Intimacy - Strategies for Successful Relationships - C. Edward Crowth, with Gayle Stone Box 11 Islands: A Treasury of Contemporary Travel Writing Box 11 Johnson, Kaufmann, Coate: Partners in the California Style Box 11 The Joy of Birding - Chuck Bernstein Box 11 Just another Murder in Miami - Roy Gilligan Box 11 A Kayak Full of Ghosts - Lawrence Millman Box 11 Lawyers Are Killing America - Robert V. Wills Box 11 Learning to Love It: Seven Stories and a Novella - Thomas Farber Box 11 Lips Unsealed - Lyn Lifshin Box 11 Live Oaks also Die - Roy Gilligan Box 11 Lotte Lehmann - A Life in Opera and Song - Beaumont Glass
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Box 11 The Love Story of Sushi and Sashimi: A Cat Tale - SuZen and John Daniel / Love Story of the Century - Marta Tikkanen Box 11 Lutah Maria Riggs: A Woman in Architecture, 1921-1980 - David Gebhard Box 11 McCurdy's World - A Postcard Book - Michael McCurdy Box 11 Master of Line: John Winkler, American Etcher - Mary Millman and Dave Bohn Box 11 Masters of Music - Great Artists at Work: James Arkatov - Alan Rich Box 11 Matador - Barnaby Conrad Box 11 Miller, Henry Box 11 Murphy's Romance - Max Schott Box 11 Natives in Exile - Dirk Harman Box 11 Nature Near: Late Essays of Richard Neutra - William Marlin Box 11 Nazi Childhood - Winfried Weiss Box 11 [Neff] Wallace Neff: Architect of California's Golden Age - Wallace Neff, Jr. Box 11 The New Figurative Art of David Park - Paul Mills Box 11 News at Ten: Fifty Years with Stan Chambers - Stan Chambers Box 11 The Nine Lives of Algernon - John Espey Box 11 Nothing but the Marvelous: Wisdoms of Henry Miller - Blair Fielding Box 11 One Can Think about Life after the Fish Is in the Canoe - James D. Houston [back-to-back with] Beyond Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Box 11 An Orange Grove Boyhood - Lawrence Clark Powell Box 11 The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters - Gerald W. Haslam Box 11 Owls in Folklore and Natural History - Virginia C. Holmgren Box 11 The Path: Metaphysics for the '90s - Richard Matheson Box 11 Plain Talk about Fine Wine - Justin Meyer Box 11 Poets never Kill - Roy Gilligan Box 11 Portable Kisses: Love Poems - Tess Gallagher Box 11 Portable Kisses Expanded - Tess Gallagher Box 11 Portrait of My Father - Lawrence Clark Powell Box 11 Power and Glory - Robert Easton Box 11 Praying for Rain - Chris Spain Box 11 This Promised Land - Robert Easton Box 11 Raccoons in Folklore, History and Today's Backyards - Virginia C. Holmgren Box 11 Racks - David Petersen Box 12 Rambles through an Alaskan Wild: Katmai and the Valley of the Smokes - David Bohn Box 12 Rattlesnakes & Roses - Joan Oppenheimer Box 12 Reflections: Henry Miller, edited by Twinka Thiebaud Box 12 Remembering Ray: A Composite Biography of Raymond Carver - William L. Stull and Maureen P. Carroll Box 12 Robert Stacy-Judd: Maya Architecture and the Creation of a New Style - David Gebhard and Anthony Peres Box 12 Santa Barbara: A Guide to El Pueblo Viejo - Rebecca Conrad and Christopher H. Nelson Box 12 Santa Barbara Architecture, 3rd edition - Wayne McCall Box 12 The Santa Barbara Restaurant Guide - Anonymous [Arthur von Wiesenberger] Box 12 Short Cuts Box 12 Sicily Enough and More - Claire Rabe Box 12 Small Wonders - Shannon Wills Box 12 Spy - Arthur Mullin Box 12 The Sudden Disappearance of Japan - J. D. Brown Box 12 Tidepools of Southern California - Linda E. Tway Box 12 True Bear Stories - Joaquin Miller Box 12 View from this Wilderness - John Sanford Box 12 Vintage Talk Box 12 The Visionary - Ursula K. LeGuin / Wonders Hidden: Audubon's Early Years - Scott R. Sanders Box 12 Voyageurs of the Midnight Sun - Dan Cushman
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Box 12 Waging Peace in the Nuclear Age: Ideas for Action - edited by David Krieger and Frank Kelly Box 12 Waitress: America's Unsung Heroine - Leon Elder and Lin Rolens Box 12 The Way of the Hummingbird - Virginia C. Holmgren Box 12 The Wildlife Protectors Handbook - Donald Heintzelman Box 12 Wine Country: A History of Napa Valley: The Early Years: 1838-1920 - William Heintz Box 12 Wolverine Creates the World: Labrador Indian Tales - gathered and retold by Lawrence Millman Box 12 Wolves and Other Love Stories - Ivan Bunin, translated by Mark Scott Box 12 Women in Printing: Northern California, 1857-1890 - Roger Levenson Box 12 Words: A Potpourri of Fascinating Origins - Grant Campbell Box 12 The World of Lawrence - Henry Miller Box 12 Yanks Meet Reds: Recollections of U.S. and Soviet Vets from the Linkup in World War II - edited by Mark Scott and Semyon Krasilshchik Box 12 Yes! Capra Chapbook Series Box 12 Yestermorrow: Obvious Answers to Impossible Futures - Ray Bradbury Box 12 Yoga for the Young at Heart - Susan Winter Ward Box 12 Young Wolf: The Early Adventure Stories of Jack London Box 12 Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity - Ray Bradbury Box 12 Miscellaneous Reviews 1996-2000
Box 13 Miscellaneous Business Materials Scope and Contents note Includes later publicity and promo materials, as well as accounting and inventory information, and contracts.
Box 14 Photographs Scope and Contents note Photos of Capra authors, including Henry Miller and Lawrence Clark Powell; Capra offices; and Capra displays at various venues.
Capra Press / Robert E. Bason Years Series II.
Manuscript Files Scope and Contents note Mainly manuscript drafts of works, some with corrections and annotations, along with some proofs, advertising, sample covers, and related materials, for more recent Capra publications, 2000-2004. Arranged by author.
Box 15 Barre, Richard - Bethany Box 15 Barre, Richard - Burning Moon Box 15 Barre, Richard - Echo Bay Box 15 Barre, Richard - The Star Box 15 Barre, Richard - Wind on the River Box 16 Bernard, Ian - Writing Humor Box 16 Conrad, Barnaby - Last Boat to Cadiz Box 17 Emmons, Robert - The Road to Paradise Box 17 Garcia, Mario - Padre Box 17 Gilbar, Steve - Americans in Paris Box 17 Harrington, Kent - Dia de los Muertos Box 17-18 Krieger, David - Hope in a Dark Time Box 18 Krieger, David - Poetry of Peace Box 18 Nolan, William F. - Ships in the Night
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Box 18 Sanford, John - A Palace of Silver Box 18-19 Smiley, Robin H. - Books into Film
Miscellaneous Manuscripts Scope and Contents note Not published by Capra Press. Mainly uncorrected typed manuscripts, along with some supporting correspondence, and related materials. [No further reproduction of these manuscripts is permitted without written permission from the author or heirs]
Box 19 Barre, Richard - Lost Box 19 Conrad, Barnaby - Keepers of the Secret Box 19 Conrad, Barnaby - Redemption Box 19 Daniel, John - Something Happens to Someone Box 19 Harrington, Kent - Red Jungle Box 19 Harris, Mark - Girl with Greatest Legs Box 19 Hyde, Catherine Ryan - Subway Dancers Box 19 Lichtman, Jim - What Do You Stand For? Box 19 Lynds, Dennis - Pictures on a Bedroom Wall Box 19 Nolan, William - untitled Kincaid novella Box 19 Olsen, Jimmy - The Poison Makers Box 20 Sanford, John - A Citizen of No Mean City Box 20 Sanford, John - A Dinner of Herbs Box 20 Sanford, John - The Mentor Box 20 Sanford, John - Miscellany [binder for Sister] Box 20 Unkefer, Duane - Basic Fiction Oversize Series III.
Box 21-22 Boxed - posters, broadsides, and signs, mainly relating to Capra publications; incl. Maharishi award to Noel Young, June 19, 1981 Box 21/9 Foldered - silkscreen "Cascade of Cabernet," no. 11 of 50 by Gina Gigli - inscribed by winegrower Justin Meyer to Noel Young Christmas 1989 Oversize 24, Unicorn Folio; Series 1 (#1-4) Folder 1 Oversize 24, Unicorn Folio; Series 2 (#1-4) Folder 2 Oversize 24, Unicorn Folio; Series 2 (#1-2) Folder 3 Oversize 25, Loose Broadsides Large Prints greater than 17 inches tall Folder 1 Oversize 25, Loose Broadsides Medium Prints between 14-17 inches Folder 2 Oversize 25, Loose Broadsides Small Prints less than 14 inches tall Folder 3 Oversize 26, Portfolios Wine Verities (1) Folder 1 Oversize 26, Portfolios Wine Verities (2) Folder 2 Oversize 26, Portfolios Edward Lear (1) Folder 3 Oversize 26, Portfolios Edward Lear (2) Folder 4 Oversize 26, Portfolios A Taste of California Folder 5 Computer Files [Noel Young Years] Series IV.
Box 23 Tapes (11 items) Box 23 3 1/2" diskettes (6 items)
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Box 23 5 1/4" floppies (12 items)
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