Zephyrus Image Collection
This is the current listing of the contents of the ZI Collection which is updated as and when new material comes in. The organisation of the list follows the order as devised by Alastair Johnston in his Zephyrus Image: a bibliography (Poltroon Press 2003). Key events, such as the Kent State Arts Festival, and Watergate, have their own sections.
Contents
Section 1: Collins Street Books………………………..1
Section 2: Bean News…………………………………..2
Section 3: Collins Street Ephemera…………………...3
Section 4: Geary Boulevard Books……………………7
Section 5: Geary Boulevard Ephemera……………….7
Section 6: Kent State Arts Festival……………………9
Section 7: Watergate……………………………………10
Section 8: Healdsburg Books………………………….11
Section 9: Healdsburg Ephemera…………………….12
Section 10: Jobwork……………………………………16
Section 11: Cranium Press…………………………….19
Section 1: Collins Street Books
1.1 Tex Ro-Non-So-Te [Keith Lampe, aka Ponderosa Pine] Amorphia. San Francisco:
Hermes Free Press 1972. [8]p. Two copies. 115x68mm.
[ref. 27, 176: Copy 2 is a variant: the initial upper-case S is a plainer design, perhaps a test
initial checking size and layout]
1.2 Energy-Hustler Ro-Non-So-Te. Election year. San Francisco: Hermes Free Press
1972. [8]p., 116x69mm. [ref. 27, 176. Mike Myers cover artwork] Keith Lampe was an environmental campaigner and activist. Amorphia was a not-for-profit organisation campaigning for the legalisation of cannabis. In Election year, plans are afoot to disrupt the Republican convention before the 1972 election.
1.3 Wilson, S. Clay. Murder. [8]p., [Printed at Rip Off Press. No date] 126x184mm. Comic strip collage format. Rob Rusk was a friend of Wilson’s and introduced him to Holbrook Teter, who paid for this edition. A unique look at Women’s Lib. [ref. 51, 177]
1.4a Rilke, Rainer Maria and Robert Bly [trans.]. Ten sonnets to Orpheus. [24]p.,
Zephyrus Image Magazine Number One 1972.
First edition, printed on Curtis Utopian natural white paper (including the wrappers) and set in Aldus and Palatino. Cover linocut in four colours by Michael Myers. 218x152mm. [ref. 49, 175- 176]
1.4b Rilke, Rainer Maria and Robert Bly [trans.]. Ten sonnets to Orpheus. [28]p., Mudra/Zephyrus Image Magazine 1972.
Second edition, offset-printed from the first edition and set in Aldus and Palatino. Cover linocut in four colours by Michael Myers. Distributed out of Berkeley by Book People. Stapled wrappers. 215x152mm. [ref. 49, 175-176]
1.5 Myers, Michael. Accordion to St Luke. [12]p. 69x58mm. Made by Myers for a Christmas greeting. Folded accordion-style. On each face there are different accordions printed from the ZI collection of found blocks. Initial letter printed in red and black, the ‘A’ gilded by hand. The final image is a head and shoulders portrait of Ted Mack altered by Myers, who added a golden halo which has slipped down. [ref. 61, 176]
1.6 Teter, Holbrook and Michael Myers. Nixon Gutters Bungle Dish. 1971. [6]p. 118x92mm. Strip of newsprint folded accordion-style, each of the four faces showing Nixon’s bowling action in his private White House bowling alley. Text on final face reads “May Allah preserve our Bengali brothers”. [ref.176]
Section 2: Bean News
2.1 Bean News: all the news that's been. [1972] “8-page newspaper full of weirdness”. 358x230mm.
Two copies, one on newsprint, the other on bible paper. [ref. 76, 177]
2.2 Press pass. 66x99mm. Undecorated proof for the actual press pass issued as part of the Bean News Service Press Kit, printed on plain brown paper stock. [ref.178(a)]
2.3 The Dick and Pat Fly-Swatter and Fan. [1974] 142x145mm.
Mike Myers linocut title, red newspaper zinc showing the Nixons waving to a crowd. Three states: Key Biscayne. [ref.179(a). The first one printed] Common Market Model. [ref.179(b)] Deluxe Casa Nostra Model. [ref.179(g)] Deluxe Cosa Nostra Model. [unrecorded in Johnston]
2.4 Bean News letterhead. 280x203mm.
Letterhead printed in black. Myers linocut designs at the top and three fruit machine windows at the bottom (cherries, lemon, and SLLAB from page 2 of Bean News). Verso, a half-page found zinc of a train, a steel worker foregrounding a cityscape. [ref.178(b)]
2.5 Myers linocut. 1972. 101x151mm.
Cream coloured postcard. Verso has an offset image of a cancelled 1c stamp. Text in top-left reads: “A contemporaneous Charryon demonstrates local Injun divination method now bein’ used. The Beanville C of C invites you to see yourself while staying at attractive spas. Easy access to 4-Corners area is provided by Modern Transportation.”. [ref.178]
2.6 Daily World Bean Special. Vol.. 1, No. 3. Sept., 1975. “Commemorates shooting of Gerald Ford by Sara Moore, a member of the S.L.A.” 229x139mm.
Printed on bible paper. [ref.177]
Section 3: Collins Street Ephemera
3.1 Alcatraz is Not an Island. 215x114mm.
Broadside. A statement made by Native Americans who were occupying the land between
1969 and 1971, to raise awareness of Native American issues. We have two examples: (a), printed on grey paper, and (b), printed on lavender paper. [ref. 180]
3.2 Creeley, Robert. Change. 96x149mm.
Postcard poem with palm tree stamp by Michael Myers. [ref.181(a), Johnston prints the title
as ‘Changes’] 3.3 Harper, Michael S. Homage to the New World. Hermes Free Press. 292x145mm.
Broadside. The second in a series of free poems. [2 copies: one on grey paper stock the other on lavender, ref.182]
3.4 Jackson, Harold. War Crimes. Hermes Free Press 1972. 204x278mm.
Broadside on newsprint. An article reset by Holbrook Teter, from the Manchester Guardian, about the use, by America, of a new type of anti-personnel bomb which when exploded, sent out plastic pellets. [ref.183]
3.5 Kabir. The Musk inside the Deer.
Broadside:
State 1: with an aqua linocut of a mollusc by Myers, printed landscape size. 131x256mm.
[ref.183(i)].
State 2: has a linocut in dark pink (jellyfish-like) and image is centred on the page, text in black. Johnston describes the image as being printed in brown. 250x131mm, [ref.183(ii-a), variant]
State 3: has the same linocut as State 2, but in pink and blue iridescent ink and printed on the left side of the page, text in black on brown card stock. 253x158mm, [ref.183(ii-c)
3.6 Myers, Michael. Liberate Berkeley. 1970. 222x167mm.
Linocut depicting a fist rising from a bunch of dynamite, flanked by two Molotov cocktails with two sub-machine guns forming the left and right borders. Johnston’s state (iv) which is a reissue of the first state, but printed in black on white stock. One of our two copies carries on the verso the announcement of ‘A Wake for Michael’ which was circulated in 1982. [ref.184(iv)]
3.7 Myers, Michael. Emergency Equipment. 163x113mm.
Verbatim instructions of how to inflate an aircraft’s escape chute. This copy printed in black on Day-Glow orange crack-n-peel sticker with the Hermes Free Press logo of a winged roller- skate at the bottom. [ref.185(b)]
3.8 Myers, Michael. Help Your Local Junkie Kick. 312x163mm.
Broadside on newsprint. Ornate linocut in green ink featuring syringes and weeping angels. We hold both states of this broadside, the second of which is 254x165mm and printed in black on kromecote. Read it both ways. [ref.185(a) and (b)]
3.9 Raffael, Joseph. August 1st, 1970. [Hermes Free Press 1970] 215x278mm.
Broadside poem on newsprint with the poem on the right and a zinc cut of Anubis on the left. [ref.187]
3.10.1 Richter® Household Seismometer. The Original Household Seismometer. 1971. 280x175mm. Second state. Johnston dates 1975. Printed on white rag paper with deckle edge. Myers’ block in brown printed over blue zinc image of Henry Kissinger watching Chinese children playing. Beneath image “69th Anniversary Edition” in red. Copyright declaration and title in brown. Richter trademark in day-glo orange. [ref.187c]
3.10.1ii Richter® Household Seismometer. The Original Household Seismometer. First issue. 1971. 285x159mm. Printed on tan laid card. Myers’ block in black, leaves coloured green, Richter trademark in red. Imprint: © 1971 by Zephyrous Image Graphics, 243 Collins St., San Francisco. [ref.187a]
3.10.2 [Richter® Household Seismometer] Instructions for Installation. 1971. 229x126mm. Newsprint broadside with a Myers linocut printed in black with pendulum points indicated in red. [ref.188ii]
3.11 Teter, Holbrook. That’s no way to go said Cheops on first seeing the Step Pyramid.
Hermes Free Press. 283x166mm.
Broadside poem on newsprint with square block ornaments in bottom-left corner. [ref.190: variant]
3.12 Teter, Holbrook. Time as a Chinese Shudder. 560x203mm.
Broadside proof of a poem. [ref.190]
3.13 Warren, F. Eugene. Launching Apollo 12. Hermes Free Press. 507x203mm.
Broadside on newsprint with a red double ruled border along the top and down the left-hand side. [ref.191]
3.14 ZI Business Card. 58x76mm.
Printed on white card with a linecut of a field of wheat, farmhouse, hills and clouds in the distance. [ref.192]
3.15 This is a CHAIN LETTER. [1971] 255x191mm. An anti-Vietnam war flyer calling for a boycott of certain businesses which profit from war. Broadside printed in brown ink on cream paper stock. Not listed in Johnston.
3.16 Fowler, John. Medium or manipulator . . .. Hermes Free Press. 118x208mm.
Broadside on cream laid paper, typeset in blue and Myers’ linocut in pink of naked man and woman holding hands and wearing elaborate earphones. [ref.181]
3.17 Rusk, Robert. Bruno’s New Tattoo. Hermes Free Press. Broadside with ornament above title. Two copies:
Copy 1 241x158mm: on newsprint, but not one of the two states recorded in Johnston. The ornament is a floral design measuring 9x8mm.
Copy 2 278x104mm: this one, (b) with the 11pt type ornament of dark moon. 157x241mm.
[ref.188] 3.18 Myers, Michael. c.1970.
Small broadside on off-white thin card featuring Myers’ linocut in black which appeared on
F. Eugene Warren’s Mrs. Shapely Takes A Stroll. [ref.191. Not recorded in Johnston] 3.19 Chow, Shelton. ‘I believe there must be someone,’ [first line]. Hermes Free
Press: Memorial Day 1970. 380x126mm.
Broadside on newsprint, brown/orange found zinc of businessman above poem. Folded into thirds. [ref.180.] 3.20 Garcia, Luis. For Wallace. 187x93mm.
Broadside on white card with a wavy blue/purple line at top edge. Poem addressed to the
Alabama governor and Presidential candidate, George Wallace. [ref.181] 3.21 Hermes Free Press Stationery. 85x126mm.
Mailing label with type cuts. [ref.183b] 3.22 Myers, Michael. Ford. 335x175mm.
Broadside on newsprint with Myers’ linocut in blue depicting a messianic figure, holding a wrench is one hand and a lug wrench crucifix in the other, standing on a front fender with the
Ford logo underneath. ‘Zephyrous Image, S.F.’ (early first spelling and the first item issued by the press) in red beneath. The first collaboration of Myers and Teter in January of 1970.
[ref.23,184] 3.23 Dixon, Nicholas. Pocketing the Black Stones. empty house press, 25 April 1970.
250x157mm.
A Cranium broadside on newsprint. By Rob Rusk? See Johnston. [ref.187] 3.24 Spring Creek Type Specimens. ‘Characters in the font’. a) broadside for 12 point Caslon No 2 (74). 179x121mm. b) broadside for 9 point Janson (180). 178x121mm. c) broadside for 11 point Janson (118). 238x101mm. [ref.189]
3.25 Teter, Holbrook. The Solace Group.
Broadside, printed in two colours with two linocuts by Myers. A reaction against psychiatrist Joel Fort (who testified in the Patty Hearst trial). 131x250mm. [ref.190] 3.26 Silence is Golden. 114x120mm.
On the cover, an illustration from the 1950s of two horse riders, with the text: “Q: The
Chronicle prides itself on its public service record – why is it silent on the Sutro Tower
outrage?” Inside: the text “A: Silence is Golden” above and below which are printed
two gold dollar signs - $ $. [ref.189]
3.27 Spring Creek Typesetting Service. 203x278mm.
Letterhead in Kabel type with found zinc of a huge printing factory, c1920s. Zinc
measures 72x160mm. [A variant of ref.189b, which describes a moving truck zinc
cut, and of ref.203 in Section 5, Geary Boulevard Ephemera]
3.28 Warren, F. Eugene. Mr. Thinking Deeply Makes the Scene. Zephyrous Image &
Cranium Press. 364x139mm.
Broadside on medium weight cream paper, text in red, colophon in pale brown, with Myers cut in green of head and torso of long-haired man, arms down and holding a quill in each hand. On either side, two heron-type birds, and above his head, a star-shaped halo. Johnston’s ref cites trial proofs, with no dimensions. [ref.191]
3.29 Myers, Michael. ‘International Harvester’. Zephyrus Image. 445x331mm. Broadside on medium weight white paper, illustration and colophon in black, with Myers linocut border in green incorporating stylized cannabis leaves at each of the four corners. Johnston has this printed on brown cover stock. [ref.186ii]
Section 4: Geary Boulevard Books 1973-6
4.1 Brakhage, Stan. The Seen. Pasteurize Press 1975. 32p., 135x116mm.
Printed by Clifford Burke with the cover linocut by Michael Myers printed onto refractive mylar. [ref.111, 193]
4.2 Myers, Michael. Linocut proof in purple and red of the cover illustration for Tom Raworth’s Cloister (1975) 243x249mm
The illustration (purple ink) shows a naked couple holding hands, both wearing headphones. Beneath this illustration, and to either side, is a design in red ink of some kind of musical instrument. [ref.114,193]
4.3 Teter, Holbrook, Rob Rusk & Michael Myers. Spirit Photography: a fireside book of gurus. 1973. [36]p, 128x167mm. [ref.62,63,194] Together with the original mailing envelope: Jenkel-Davidson Optical Company. “Congratulations again, ZI, on a truly insightful outlook!”. 151x227mm. [ref.194b]
4.3i Facsimile copy of Spirit Photography, lovingly printed letterpress, by Cuneiform Press in 2012. [36]p, 128x167mm.
4.4 Myers, Michael. Dr. Spokane’s Soporific.
Flip book featuring a sheep jumping over a fence. Made as a Christmas gift by Myers. In envelope as issued with “Merry Xmas and to all a Goodnight” hand-written in red and black on front. Johnston suggests the drawings were Xeroxed. [30] leaves stapled into self cover, 101x76mm. [ref.193]
Section 5: Geary Boulevard Ephemera
5.1 Ed Davis (as Mickey Mouse) and S. I. Hayakawa. 180x145mm
Day-Glo orange crack-n-peel sticker in the shape of a police badge with caption lettering and decoration by Michael Myers.
Edward M. Davis was the Chief of the L.A.P.D. at the time of the race riots in the late 1960s. Senator S. I. Hayakawa was a Canadian-born academic, and later a politician, of Japanese parents, who was an English professor at San Francisco State College until the mid-1970s after which he was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate. In 1968, he successfully disrupted a student demonstration on campus. Two copies, the second of which is uncut. [ref.197]
5.2 [Ed Davis] .Sivad Cuff. 91x211mm.
White crack-n-peel back bumper sticker with thick black linocut lettering and a police badge in the border by Michael Myers, designed to be read in a rearview mirror. [ref.197]
5.3 Dawson, Fielding. from Two Penny Lane, a new novel by Fielding Dawson. c.1977. 240x101mm.
Folded broadside. Inside on the left is a zinc image of a girl browsing library shelves. The text opposite begins ‘Hot day across the Metropolis.’ Johnston states 4 pages. [ref.197: variant?]
5.4 Myers, Michael. Reagan: Horse’s Ass. 368x227mm.
Broadside on newsprint depicting a linocut illustration of a horse with Ronald Reagan’s head, drawn from the back, dropping a load, with Reagan, visibly straining, looking over his shoulder. [ref.200]
5.5 Dorn, Ed. The Octopus Thinks With Its Third Arm (after Young. 1973. 285x445mm.
Broadside. Johnston’s state b, with the linocut in blue. [ref.198] 5.6 Dawson, Fielding. Hey! “An Essay in the Form of a Brief Shout on Art & Communikation dedicated to San Francisco …” 240x20mm.
Folded broadside, printed in black and red on tan paper. Michael Myers linocut shows Mickey Mouse looking surprised/caught red-handed with a cigarette dropping from his mouth. [ref.197]
5.7 Gary Snyder Brand© Pine Nuts. Card top folded to 102 x 56mm, stapled to polythene bag containing two pine nuts 103x116mm.
Produced and disseminated in 1975 after Snyder received his nomination for the Pulitzer Prize. [ref.101, 202]
5.7.1 Gary Snyder Brand© Pine Nuts. Unfolded card top 165 x 128mm.
5.8 Ping. 151x266mm.
Broadside printed on pink stock; cover of Marjorie Flack’s 1933 children’s book The Story About Ping, reproduced in pink with a red border; below this is Hermes Free Press winged roller-skate logo in brown; beneath the logo is Myers’ linocut of an eagle carrying a baby. Done in 1975 to commemorate “Operation Baby Lift”, towards the end of the Vietnam War. [ref.201]
5.9 Seminar on the History of the Printed Book. 201x265mm.
Broadside advertising a talk at the Special Collection Dept., S.F. Public Library. Astonishing linocut in pale brown by Michael Myers looking exactly like coffee cup ring stains. [ref.97,202]
5.10 Snyder, Gary. ‘I am a poet.’ 409x229mm.
Broadside printed in brown with a found zinc in the middle of the page. Created by Tom Raworth in 1974 ‘setting a piece of writing by Gary Snyder about “ecological conscience” and trivializing it by juxtaposing it with a found zinc cut from a newspaper advertisement, of two women gossiping in a bank lobby’ (Johnston). [ref.203]
5.11 Myers, Michael. [Compass rose] 1974. 317x217mm.
Broadside with linocut image of compass rose in black on tan Frankfurt laid paper. [ref.200]
5.12 U.S. Department of Agri-culture.
Postcard showing a zinc cut of a cow within a circle of teeth from a dental chart. Below: “Weekly ration:beef – 1 lb.”. At the bottom: “Householder’s Hint – Large grasshoppers make a protinaceous summer sandwich – White bread with Tobasco sauce!”. 152x131mm [ref.205]
5.13 Wiley, William. [Pumpkin Papers] Hallowe’en 1976. 85x87mm (folded). Broadside. Untitled and anonymous poem, first line ‘Where the scare grows . . .’ The paper is cut and folded into a square shape with the poem printed in 18 point Garamond on the inside. Myers’ line art decorates the outside and depicts symbols found in Wiley’s paintings: a locked door on one side and, where the folds meet at the back, a tag. [ref.205]
5.14 Dorn, Ed. ‘Prolegomenon to Book IIII.’ 310x120mm.
Folded broadside printed in black on Crane paper. Fine and beautiful [impartial, detached judgement] Myers’ four colour linocut initial, the “Lady Caslon G”. [ref.89,198]
Section 6: Kent State Arts Festival 1974
6.1 Brolaski, Inés. Prayer of the Ticitl. 302x178mm.
Broadside printed black on white Strathmore Pastel paper with one deckle edge. Text is set within a Michael Myers linocut red frame of honeysuckle with a bee at the top. [ref.199(1)]
6.2 Dorn, Ed. Green Poems. 329x207mm.
Broadside printed on white paper composed of sixteen or so short poems in various typefaces, printed haphazardly around the page over a found zinc in blue of Hitler shaking hands with a giant. One of the poems is in Dorn’s hand-writing, linocut by Michael Myers. On the verso is the ZI Zeppelin and Ibis logo with Ed Dorn’s name printed in red beneath. [ref.79,199(3)]
6.3 Dorn, Ed. Mesozoic Landscape. 277x217mm.
Broadside printed on recycled paper composed of twelve or so short poems in various typefaces. Linocut arrow by Michael Myers. On the verso is the ZI Zeppelin and Ibis logo with Ed Dorn’s name printed in red beneath. [ref. 199(4)]
6.4 Dunbar, Jennifer. I dreamt my Childhood in Kent. 298x176mm.
Broadside printed black on cream Curtis Gallo Utopian. Text is set within the bee and honeysuckle linocut frame in green. [ref.199(5)]
6.5 Kyger, Joanne. I don’t want to repeat the same mistakes over again. 285x176mm.
Broadside printed black on green (Johnston records rose-pink) Program Bristol paper. Text is set within the bee and honeysuckle linocut frame in brown. [ref.199(8): variant]
6.6 Oppenheimer, Joel. [Four poems] Art, The Lesson, Hyacinthus, Nature. 301x177mm.
Broadside printed black on cream Warren’s Old Style paper. Text is set within the bee and honeysuckle linocut frame in blue. [ref.199(9)] 6.7 Devo. The Waltz. 178x297mm.
Broadside printed black on white watercolour paper with Michael Myer’s border in blue. [ref.199(2)]
Section 7: Watergate
7.1 IM + [peach] + N + [“ick” Nixon throwing up] + [sun] = Impeach Nixon. 381x145mm.
Linocut rebus by Michael Myers in black on white card stock. [ref.54,206(a): variant: this is a larger version of those recorded by Johnston]
7.2 Rebus as above on yellow with the peach and the sun in orange ink and the Hermes Free Press logo in bottom right. 332x115mm. [ref.206(b)]
7.3 Rebus as above on newsprint in turquoise ink and the Hermes Free Press logo in bottom right. 345x126mm. [ref.206(c)]
7.4 Impeach! 304x203mm.
Broadside on natural white recycled paper. The title in red printed in the middle of a cloud (drawn by Myers) above a found zinc in blue of an old-fashioned tape recorder. [ref.206]
7.5 Why Impeachment? Why Not!!? 175x206mm.
Broadside done allegedly by Holbrook Teter’s young son and his friends. Signed in Typo Script type by Pat Nixon, Tricia and Julie, Matt Teter, Scott Spencer, Matt Raffael – Nixon’s wife plus a bunch of kids. [ref.206]
7.6 He’s Gunning for the Top. 354x230mm.
Broadside on off-white recycled paper. A thick black arch-shaped border contains a found zinc of the top of a battleship with a drawing of Nixon by Myers superimposed over the top. [ref.206]
7.7 A Personal Opinion Poll “When the President does it, that makes it not illegal” 278x214mm.
Flyer, printed black on white on both sides and designed to be folded into three to form an envelope shape. The verso has the American flag in two colours and the reader is asked to tick 72 true or false boxes in answer to “When the President commits the following crime, he is not a crook…”, such as Cheating at Golf, Kissinger Envy and Throwing Gooks out of Helicopters etc. Stamped with the words “Postage will be paid by addressee” (the addressee being one of four government bodies). The two examples in this collection are addressed to the Select Committee on Ethics and The Santa Rosa Press-Democrat respectively. [ref.206ii and iii]
Section 8: Healdsburg Books 1975-
8.1 Berlin, Lucia. A manual for cleaning ladies. Zephyrus Image and N. E. D. A. 1977. [20]p. 175x117mm.
Lucia Berlin’s first book which was originally entitled Suicide note, a manual, includes four linocuts by Michael Myers. N. E. D. A. = National Endowment for the Domestic Arts. [ref.127, 208, unsewn proof copy]
8.2 Teter, Holbrook and Michael Myers. Dade County Bible. Hermes Free Press 1977. [14] leaves. 103x111mm.
Title from cover. Title page reads: The holy bible containing the same old thing translated by wagging tongues being the version set forth A.D. 1977 by Anita Bryant, Dale Evans, & John Briggs, Gadfly. A flip-book: as you flip, the Christian cross turns into a solid-colour black swastika. Published during the rise of lesbian and gay rights activism in the U.S. Anita Bryant was a former beauty queen and an anti-gay t.v. evangelist. Dade County was hot-spot for evangelism, but the Castro neighbourhood was one of the first strong openly gay communities suffering frequent anti-gay attacks. Holbrook Teter sold the books for 50 cents each from a tray around his neck on the streets of Castro soliciting suspicion from gays, but admiration from the religious. [ref.128,208]
8.3 Raworth, Tom. Common Sense. 1976. [18] leaves 137x87mm. [2 copies]
Spiral bound and made to look like a small notebook to disguise the fact that one is reading poetry in public. Printed on ruled paper then sent out to be spiral bound. Michael Myers created a linocut price – 1.49 – which looks like an actual price stamp on the back. [ref.117,208]
Copy 1: Cover colours are predominantly orange, yellow and pink; endpaper is blue; Myers’ final linocut of salt shaker is printed on green.
Copy 2: Cover colours are predominantly blue, red/pink and orange; endpaper is newsprint; Myers’ final linocut of salt shaker is printed on orange.
8.4 Raworth, Tom. [Prospectus for Common Sense] 238x101mm.
A flyer advertising Common Sense on the verso of which is printed a poem beginning ‘spears of laughter’ (the beginning of Writing). Tom Raworth (p.209) speculates it is printed there because it was meant to be in Common Sense, but then became too long. There are two copies in the collection, one with the poem and one without. [ref.208-209(b)] 8.5 Teter, Holbrook, Michael Myers and Ed Dorn. Folger’s. 1977. [21] leaves 106x164mm.
Flip-book lampooning poet Charles Olson and literary cultism (drawn by Michael Myers) who is depicted beebling his lips standing before a U.S. weather map. Cover: red card weight glossy paper with a manipulation of the Folgers Coffee logo; staple bound. The Folgers Coffee t.v. advertisements featured a “Mrs. Olson”. "Black Mountain Groan" (verso, final leaf) is a play on words of the Folgers coffee registered tag line "Mountain Grown", and the Black Mountain Poets as represented by Charles Olson. The previously independent Folger Coffee Company had been taken over by Procter & Gamble in 1963. [ref.120,209]
8.6 Teter, Holbrook, Michael Myers and Ed Dorn. The menu appendix taken from Wm Caxton’s original cookbook. 1979. [4] leaves 276x179mm.
A dig at the exclusivity of the fine press printing scene. The Menu was issued in a plastic wood-effect folder which looked like a cheap diner menu. Printed using various types including Morris Romanised Black. Linocut elaborate borders by Michael Myers with Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner menus printed on each leaf. The names of the dishes are made up of printing terms such as Colophon Casserole, Helvetica on a Half Shell and Printer’s Thumb Paté etc. [ref.156,210]
8.6b Postcard as a New Year’s greeting, advertising the publication of The menu appendix. 77x121mm. [ref.210b]
Section 9: Healdsburg Ephemera
9.1 Barich, Bill. ‘So that year, another year, came to its end.’ 1977/78. 279x177mm.
Broadside on newsprint produced as a new year’s greeting for 1978. Michael Myers blue and silver linocut of a fish inside an elaborate tank. [ref.135,211]
(a) state: printed on off-white paper in colours blue, grey and red.
(b) state: printed on newsprint and the fish’s body is silvery grey all over.
9.2 Birds. 1978. 291x92mm
Broadside printed on thick Kromecoat. The verso carries the ZI logo and ‘Birds often observed at Deer Creek in Sonoma County. Printed on the Occasion of a Sierra Club visit 25 February, 1978’. A list of 32 birds printed beneath an elaborately-styled title. This copy is Johnston’s variant state b which includes the ‘Red-Shafted Fucker’ (‘Red-shafted Flicker’ in other states) [ref.211]
9.3 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. ‘Like the stars,’ 47x238mm. One-line quote broadside/napkin ring with a hole punched on the right-hand side through which the opposite end is threaded. Michael Myers linotype of the sun’s rays around the hole. Pleasing. [ref.212]
9.4 Lettuce Pray (aka) On a Wing and a Prayer. 1977. 358x228mm [unfolded]
Origami broadside with a rebus title – [lettuce]P+[ray]. Given out by the ZI pair at an artists’ book fair at Berkeley Art Center and made ‘on a wing and a prayer’. Follow the lines and fold into a paper aeroplane. The rebus appears on the wing and the hymn ‘Hear us, O Lord, from heaven Thy dwelling place’ hangs beneath. The collection includes both a folded and an unfolded copy. [ref.125,212]
9.5 London, Rick. partial eclipse. 1977. 304x191mm.
Broadside with halftone images of phases of the moon down the left-hand side of the page. Holbrook Teter printed the poem unbeknownst to London. [ref.212]
9.6 Maps to Healdsburg. 280x216mm.
Collection holds three copies: Johnston state b copy on goldenrod paper. Map drawn by Michael Myers includes a large round magnifying glass hovering over the ZI location. Second copy on green paper (not in Johnston) and a smaller square copy on beige paper stock (also not in Johnston), possibly a first design without the magnifying glass and measuring 215x215mm. [ref.212]
9.7 Myers, Michael. [Locust sticker]. 76x127mm.
One of four known pieces of ephemera relating to Mormons. Refers to when the Mormons were plagued by locusts on first settling in Salt Lake. Michael Myers went there to visit a friend equipped with Mormon-related artwork he’d drawn and surreptitiously distributed it at key Mormon sites such as the temple and genealogical society, hiding the pieces amongst the Mormons own material. [ref.148 (Fun with Mormons),213]
9.8 Myers, Michael. Alice Hinton. [1979] 76x330mm.
A crack-n-peel bumper sticker. Alice Hinton, a conservative campaigner, tried to stop nude bathing on some beaches in California so Myers produced this bumper sticker of drawings of naked people spelling out the letters of her name. One of the stickers was posted to her. [ref.147,213]
9.9 Myers, Michael. [Bill Barich letterhead]. 1976. 279x212mm.
Linocut of a spark-plug attached to a fishing hook, a plectrum and an unidentified object. [ref.114]
9.10 Myers, Michael. I got the perfect tail! [1975] 331x69mm. Bumper sticker with linocut of the Fairchild logo (Fairchild were a semiconductor manufacturer). Michael Myers and Rob Rusk worked at the Fairchild factory in the crystal growing department. ‘Perfect tail’ refers to the tail of a crystal; an in-joke. [ref.214]
9.11 Do it to Hawaii Larry [1976] 381x98mm.
Bumper sticker in Day-Glo orange with purple lettering (silkscreen). Johnston is sceptical about this being printed by ZI, rather by sympathisers of their cause, but maybe ZI’s idea. Larry Wilson was a property developer who wanted to turn Healdsburg into a tourist trap by building a Plaza. He lost against the activism of ZI and left town. [ref.216]
9.12 Prayer for Rain. 140x215mm.
Postcard on brown card with a blue zinc image of the Pope amid a crowd of attendants in regency dress (silent movie still?), with the prayer printed top left. Verso carries Jesuit insignia with ‘Christus Regnet’. [ref.217]
9.13 Pre-election Indecision blues? Come to a Bold Ballot Bash! [1976] 86x139mm.
Postcard on blue textured ‘elephant hide’ stock (the second state described by Johnston). Two quotes by Plutarch and Alphonse de Lamartine run along the top and bottom.
9.14 Shakespeare, William. ‘I wasted time, and now time doth waste me’. 235x159mm. [ref.217]
Printed on brown heavyweight text stock; a found image, Johnston suggests from 1968 in the style of Gerald Scarfe, black ink drawing with quote from Richard II beneath. Produced as a New Year’s card. [ref.217]
9.15 Snack-time Ranch-Raised Gourmet Earwigs. 37x98mm. Folded state: 40x38mm.
Printed on wood veneer paper with linocut earwig design by Michael Myers. We have two proof states printed on one piece of wood veneer paper, plus a folded finished version. [ref.217]
9.16 Teter, Holbrook. Wimbledom. By the Oaf of the Tennis Court. 1979. 216x279mm.
Broadside. Typographical tennis match which Teter called ‘An exercise in elusive typography’: two lower-case letter ‘i’s playing with ‘O’ rackets using ellipses to depict ball movement over a parallel line net supported by upper-case ‘I’s. This was in reply to a call for work from Tom Raworth. [ref.217]
9.17 Thurber, James. Manifesto of Red & Blue. A collage by Monroe & Thurber. 238x102mm.
Broadside: first line: ‘Title me The Imaginary Poet’. Copy 1 has Hermes Free Press logo in gold on verso; copy 2 has the logo in orange. Plus, the original envelope as issued with the title printed in top-left. [ref.218a and b] 9.18 Warm Springs Fortune Teller. 200x200mm. Folded state: 103x103mm.
Warm Springs Dam opposition ephemera. The dam took two years to construct with massive ecological repercussions for the Sonoma Valley. Michael Myers drew the illustrations that fit into the paper fortune teller, or ‘cootie catcher’. Shows plans of the dam and the environmental impact of it: a cash register full of money, the dam bursting ‘8 points on the Richter Scale’, pollution of the Russian River ‘Something’s Fishy’, a bottle of wine next to a skull ‘Smog-belt Chardonnay’, a dried up Lake Sonoma etc. The collection includes one unfolded copy, and two folded copies. One of the folded copies is inside a small envelope (108x63mm) as issued. [ref.218]
9.19 Achtung! Sieg Heil! Now Hear This. This Hear Now. 279x211mm.
Warm Springs Dam opposition ephemera. Photocopied sheet using newspaper article in the middle of reproduction type border pasted up by Holbrook Teter. The flyer announces the closure of the Warm Springs Dam project site. [ref.218]
9.20 Myers, Michael. ‘Rain’. 119x194mm.
Broadside printed in black on tan shows Myers’ linocut version of the Mayan rain god Chac. Johnston suggests it was done in May 1976, during the drought of 1975-76. The word ‘RAIN’ can be found in either black or blue; this copy is black. [ref.215]
9.21 Dorn, Ed. ‘Phaenominon’. 142x241mm.
Broadside printed in red and blue on brown card stock. Myers’ linocut border in blue. ‘from Hello, La Jolla’ on verso. [ref.211]
9.22 New Year’s Greeting 1976. 285x178mm.
Broadside printed in dark red, bright red and green on brown card stock. Myers’ linocut of nude woman seen from behind, looking over her shoulder. Legend at the bottom: ‘ho chi, ho chi, coup?’ Address of ZI in green at bottom and thought bubble in top right corner “Prospero Ano Nuevo 1976’ also in green. On verso, found zinc of a 19th century woodcut of a little girl carrying a Christmas tree, and two logos of ‘Veterans of Foreign Wars’ in green, and ‘Foresters of America’ in blue. [ref.216]
9.23 Easter is Here | Egg McMuffin is next!. 250x152mm.
Flyer in black, brown and yellow on off-white card stock. Found Easter Bunny zinc. [ref.211]
9.24 Myers, Michael. Vin Chimique. 176x150mm.
Folded broadside in black on white paper. A comment on the rapidly developing vineyards of the Alexander Valley below Healdsburg, and the heavy odour of hydrogen sulphide hanging in the air. Inside is the “Stench Record”, descriptions of the pollution recorded between Oct 25 and Feb 11. [ref.215] 9.25 Spring Creek Typesetting Service. 280x212mm.
Letterhead with linocut of SC logo in orange, in top-left corner. The S and the C are monogrammed and resemble fishing hooks with wire coiled beneath them. [ref.217]
9.26 Z I Letterhead. 270x180mm.
Letterhead printed on tan recycled paper. Found image at the top is of a man carrying a shovel over his shoulder and a rifle in the other hand. The found image of an accordion below is within quotation marks. Designed by Rob Rusk. On the verso of our copy: “RR & MM one afternoon”. [ref.219]
Section 10: Jobwork
Jobwork 1970
10.2.1 Blazek, Douglas. Flux & Reflux. Berkeley: Oyez. 57, [2]p. 216x142mm.
Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press, SF. Set in linotype Aldus by Holbrook Teter – colophon. Myers’ cover design in red ink, repeated in black on title page. [ref.222]
10.2.2 Whalen, Philip. Scenes of life at the capital. Maya Quarto Ten. [16]p. 253x205mm.
Edited and published by David Meltzer and Jack Shoemaker. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press, SF. Set in linotype Baskerville by Holbrook Teter – colophon. Two initials by Michael Myers. [ref.28,223]
Jobwork 1972
10.4.1 Isthmus. 203x138mm.
Off-set printed postcard featuring Myers’ linocut of the cover image of #3 – an homage to Botticelli’s ‘Birth of Venus’, standing in the midst of a junk yard, surrounded by bits from wrecked cars and oil cans. List of contributors on the back. Isthmus was edited by J. Rutherford Willems [ref.50,226]
Jobwork 1973
10.5.1 Herndon, James. Everything as expected. San Francisco: Privately Printed. [40] leaves. 216x138mm.
A memoir of Jack Spicer with illustrations by Fran Herndon and photography by Isadore Klein. Printed in the Bay Area with composition at Spring Creek. [ref.228] 10.5.2 Kh-Wang. ‘Rimfire Repeater your name is legend’. 139x69mm.
Broadside poem produced for Marty MacClain, Bay Area poet and publisher. [ref.228]
10.5.3 Pleistocene. 280x216mm.
“G[olden]G[ate]N[ational]R[ecreation]A[rea]: how to start to make a headlands park”.
Myers linocut frames the front page and includes a naked man sitting cross-legged and starting a fire. Typeset at Spring Creek and printed at Cranium Press. [ref.229]
Jobwork 1974
10.6.1 Vincent, Stephen. The ballad of Artie Bremer. San Francisco: Momo’s Press. [28]p. 171x128mm.
Cover and drawings by Myers, done by crow-quill pen. Artie Bremer attempted to assassinate the segregationist governor of Alabama, George Wallace, on May 15, 1972, and was sentenced to 63 years, but released in 2007. Edition of 900. ‘Copies 1-5 contain one drawing by the artist’. This copy signed by both artist and author and numbered 5 by Myers. [ref.70, 231]
10.6.2 Dorn, Edward. Recollections of gran Apachería. San Francisco: Turtle Island. [48]p. 248mm.
Paperback; comic book format. Colour cover and two internal drawings by Myers. [ref.102, 230ii]
Jobwork 1975
10.7.1 Brecht, Bertolt. Five Difficulties in Writing the Truth [= Fünf Schwierigkeiten Beim Schreiben der Wahrheit]. 233x100mm.
Broadside printed by Ronnie Davis of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, a theatre of political satire, for free distribution. Johnston does not record states for this piece. This collection holds the work in three states: the first [a proof?] on newsprint, printed in German and on one side only and without decoration. The second, on brown card stock, English translation on one side and German original on the other, with the addition of B B printed in red with a red flower decoration beneath each B, on either side of title on both sides. The third, printed on green card stock with a deckle edge and the red B B initials on the German language side only.
Jobwork 1976
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Friends of the Healdsburg Library 10.8.1 Recycle your books magazines & records. 408x215mm.
Advertising poster for a book fair with a linocut by Michael Myers of a book amid plastic beer can packaging rings. Printed on tan paper. Holbrook Teter did much promotional work for the Healdsburg Library. We have two states: one printed on newsprint, the other on salmon- coloured paper. [ref.234(a)]
10.8.2 Book Sale. 211x411mm.
Broadside on tan coverstock shows Michael Myers linocut of a girl looking like a winged angel or a butterfly with a huge book fanned open on her back. [ref.220,234(c)]
10.8.3 ‘Friends of the Healdsburg Library. Meeting-Tuesday, May 10’ 98x257mm.
Printed letterpress on thick dark tan coloured paper with a strange linocut. [ref.234(e) variant]
10.8.4 ‘Friends of the Healdsburg Library. Membership: $1’ 254x150mm.
Broadside printed on wood veneer paper bearing the Michael Myers linocut of the girl carrying the huge open book on her back. The book’s covers are coloured brown.
[ref.220,234(g)]
10.8.5 [Letterhead] 280x216mm.
[Not recorded in Johnston]
10.8.6 ‘Friends of the Healdsburg Library. Initial Meeting, 14 July 1976.’
Printed letterpress in black on off-whitepaper with ‘Friends of the Healdsburg Library in orange. 278x214mm. [Not recorded in Johnston]
10.8.7 [Friends of the Healdsburg Library artwork]
Myers’ image of a girl balancing a large open book on her back. Printed in true black on thick, smooth white paper. No wording. 331x238mm. [Not recorded in Johnston]
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10.8.8 [Save the Whales letterhead] 277x212mm.
Produced for Project Jonah, a New Zealand charity formed in 1974, this has a detailed linocut by Michael Myers of a white-haired man blowing a whistle, his left hand out to the side in a ‘stop’ sign, slightly overlaying a found zinc of a dead whale from an Italian newspaper. The linocut has four colours. ZI used this as their own letterhead after the client complained it was too ornate for them. [ref.235]
(a) state: printed on newsprint (b) state: printed on off-white mould-made paper with watermark of Crane & Co., Dalton, Mass.
Jobwork 1977
10.9.1 Bay Area Mussel Group. Living Here. [28]p. 210x139mm.
Booklet done by Teter for the group. Printed in red text throughout on tan/pinkish stock. [ref.235]
10.9.2 Vincent, Stephen (ed.). Omens from the Flight of Birds: the first 101 days of Jimmy Carter. Momo’s Press.
A collective journal by writers & artists including poetry by Tom Raworth, drawings by Michael Myers, photographs by Robert Rusk. [ref.236]
10.9.2a Momo’s Press. Prospectus/order from for Omens from the Flight of Birds and Five on the Western Edge. Folded to 215x95mm. Illustration in red ink on front by Myers. [not in Johnston]
Jobwork 1978
10.10.1 Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata. soul/sacrifice. 281x132mm.
Broadside done for Momo’s Press on brown card. This copy unsigned and unnumbered. [ref.236]
10.10.2 Rolling River Designs. Custom Car Tents. 254x150mm.
Flyer on wood veneer paper produced for Rolling River Designs who traded ZI a tipi for printing work when ZI first moved to Healdsburg and opened their first shop on the outskirts of the town. [ref.237(c)]
10.10.3 Planet Drum poster. 482x317mm.
Advertising April 1979 conference ‘Listening to the Earth’. Features three line drawings by Myers. [ref.237(a)]
10.10.4 Planet Drum. Raise the Stakes. 292x221mm.
Number 6, Winter 1983 issue of the review. Features Myers artwork “Botticelli Venus” on cover; Harvesting the trash, and Fishing in sewer are printed inside. [ref.237(b)]
Jobwork 1980
10.12.1 Boiled Owl. [8]p. 364x290mm. San Francisco based tabloid magazine published from Dick’s Bar with contributions by Ace Williams, Rick London, Bill Carlson, Jim Gustafson, Jon N. Jackson, Dave Geiser and a back cover drawing by S. Clay Wilson. Holbrook Teter contributed some typesetting. [ref.238]
Section 11. Cranium Press
11.1 Welch, Lew. Getting Bald. [1970] 97x152mm.
First edition of a letterpress postcard poem on grey card, printed beneath the poem is ‘Lew.3.70’. Appears in Welch’s collection Redwood Haiku & Other Poems.
11.2 McKain, David. The Silence Motif. [4]p. [1975] 177x123mm.
Printed on newsprint. Title printed within a seventeenth century engraved ornamental border.
11.3 Cranium Press Publication List [1970] 229x113mm.
Printed letterpress on heavy cream paper.
11.3b Cranium Press Publication List. [1970?]. 278x229mm.
Printed on newsprint. May be a proof of 11.3 above.
11.4 Welch, Lew. Redwood Haiku & Other Poems. San Francisco: Cranium Press 1972. 145x142mm.
Poetry pamphlet in green card covers with a design in gold ink by Magda [Cregg]. [no ref.]
11.5 Creeley, Robert. For The Graduation: Bolinas School, June 15, 1973. [San Francisco: Cranium Press] 1973. 132x208mm.
Each year, while living in Bolinas, Creeley wrote a poem for graduation for his children’s local school. The broadside is tipped into a card folder which has a silkscreened decoration on the front designed by Arthur Okamura. [ref.32]
11.6 Creeley, Robert. Sea. [San Francisco: Cranium Press, or Mudra? [p.47]] 1970. 165x245mm.
Poem printed in black on pale yellow laid paper, with one deckle edge. Mollusc illustration in blue designed by Arthur Okamura. [no ref.]
11.7 Gates, Richard. Montara (after hearing Charles Olson). [San Francisco: Printed at Cranium Press [1970s] 202x256mm. Poem printed letterpress on heavy cream sheet of paper, to be folded once to make four pages (though this copy is unfolded). Two small flower motifs in purple (below title) and green (at the end).
11.8 Book Club of California. Cathay in Eldorado: the Chinese in California. San Francisco: Printed at Cranium Press 1972.
1972 Keepsake Series. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke in Goudy’s Italian Old Style. A series of eleven two-page folders in envelope as issued