Pall Bohne Collection
Scope and Contents
The Pall Bohne collection consists primarily of printed pamphlets and ephemera from numerous fine printing presses around California between 1940-1980. However, it also contains a significant number of correspondence from various scholars, booksellers, librarians, and owners of private presses. Within the collection is also a smaller grouping of invitations, announcements, and newsletters accumulated during Bohne’s participation in the Rounce & Coffin Club, including numerous copies of select Western Books Exhibition Catalogs from 1939-2003. The collection also includes numerous copies of proof sheets and printed cover stocks from Bohne’s production of the pamphlet Evening at Deepdene, as well as the associated correspondence and notes.
Dates
- Creation: 1932-2017
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Clark Library owns the property rights to its collections but does not hold the copyright to these materials and therefore cannot grant or deny permission to use them. Researchers are responsible for determining the copyright status of any materials they may wish to use, investigating the owner of the copyright, and obtaining permission for their intended publication or other use. In all cases, you must cite the Clark Library as the source with the following credit line: The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Biographical Note
Pall W. Bohne (1935-2017) was a Southern California printer and bookbinder, specializing in letter press printing and miniature books. As the operator of Bookhaven Press in Rosemead, California from 1967-1992, Bohne produced numerous works of ephemera and printed pamphlets, including a few miniature books such as Haiku with Birds (1967), Highlights in the History of American Whaling (1968), and Jabberwocky, the Famous Mock Heroic Epic (1971). In 1971, Bohne became a member of the Rounce & Coffin Club, a bibliophilic and printing group founded by Grant Dahlstrom and Ward Ritchie. Bohne also worked in wood-engraving, bookplate design, and made his own relief half-tone blocks. He was also active in other fields such as beekeeping and blacksmithing.
Extent
3 boxes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection contains various printed ephemera, proofs, and booklets produced by either Bohne himself or other California fine printers, as well as correspondence and other materials related to his involvement in the Rounce & Coffin Club and the private press scene at large.
Arrangement
The materials in this collection have been arranged into 4 series that largely retain the original groupings and naming conventions given to the materials when they were purchased from John Howell.
The collecton has the following four series:
Series 1: Miscellaneous Printed Ephemera and Pamphlets, 1926-1993
Series 2: Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1955-1977, 2013
Series 3: Make-Ready for Evening at Deepdene, 1972
Series 4: Rounce & Coffin Materials, 1939-2005
Physical Location
This collection is stored at the Southern Regional Library Facility. Please contact Clark Library staff at least 2 weeks in advance if you would like to view the materials in this collection.
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 2017.
Processing Information
Materials came stored in 2 record boxes containing a total of 8 labelled clamshell boxes. Within clamshell boxes, items were stored in various degrees of order. Some loose materials had been placed within the record boxes.
This collection was processed and described in 2017 by Joyce Wang. Minor edits to biography of Pall Bohne in 2024 by Rebecca Fenning Marschall.
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Pall W. Bohne Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid by Joyce Wang
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository