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Title: Archive of approximately 20 books with one or more illustrations by Paul Landacre plus programs, brochures, catalogues, announcements and related ephemera with Landacre woodcuts and illustrations Author: ** Place: Various places Publisher: Date: Various dates Description: Includes: La Semeuse: The Scripps College Year Book, Vol. II. 1932. * Doro. The Boar and Shibboleth. (Dampstaining to covers, endpapers & some margins within, inscription to front endpaper.) 1 of 500 copies. Knopf, 1933. * Bradley. Farewell Though Busy World. Inscribed by Landacre to his wife Margaret, but not signed. Primavera Press, 1935. * La Encina: Published by Associated Studends of Occidental College, Los Angeles, California. Yearbook for 1938. * Peattie. The Road of a Naturalist. Dj (worn, price clipped). Houghton Mifflin, 1941. * Zigrosser. The Artist in America: Twenty-four Close-ups of Contemporary Printmakers. With chapter on Landacre. Dj (worn around edges). Knopf, 1942. * Bierce. Tales of Soldiers & Civilians. Half leather & cloth, slipcase & chemise (both of which are worn). Limited edition, signed by Landacre in the colophon. Limited Editions Club, 1943. * Heritage Press edition of preceding, with slipcase (which is worn). [1943]. * Later Heritage Press edition of preceding, with slipcase. [1971]. * Armitage. Accent on America. With an eagle by Landacre, among other artists. 1 of 375 copies signed by the author. E. Weyhe, 1944. * Peattie. A Natural History of Western Trees. Dj (worn at edges & folds, price clipped). Houghton Mifflin, 1953. * Second Printing of preceding. Dj (rubbed). Houghton Mifflin, [1953]. * Powell. Books West Southwest. Limited to 1000 copies. Ward Ritchie Press, [1957]. * Luctretius. De Rerum Natura: On the Nature of Things. Full morocco, slipcase. 1 of 1500 copies, signed by Landacre in the colophon. Limited Editions Club, 1957. * Heritage Club edition of preceding, with slipcase. [1957]. * Harte. How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar. Slipcase. 1 of 525 copies. Ward Ritchie Press. No date. * Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Slipcase (which is worn). Heritage Press, [1963]. * Another copy of preceding, without slipcase. Bookplate. Heritage Press, [1963]. * Another ediiton of preceding. Gilt-tooled leather. Easton Press, [1976]. * Parkes. Primavera. 1 of 100 copies. Tabula Rasa Press, 1980. * Plus approximately 40 other items, being wrapper-bound, or single sheets, etc., including brochures, catalogues, post-cards, a wine label, newsclippings, magazines, all relating to or illustrated by Paul Landacre Together, approximately 60 items. Those listed individually are hardcover. Variety of works illustrated by this noted Southern California artist, known best for his woodcut illustrations. Among the unlisted items are some very rare examples of ephemeral material, including: 1931 Christmas Greeting card with woodcut by Paul Landacre of the Berkely Stadium. * Priced list of Landacre prints available from Hess Galleries, c.1930's, with Landacre cut. * The Dove: A Quarterly Magazine, printed by Ward Ritchie, with woodcut on front wrapper by Landacre. Autumn, 1938. * "When are you going to laugh, America?" An address delivered by Harold Ickes, July 4, 1930, with woodcut by Landacre. * "New Places & New Faces," a quarto signature advertising a new location for Jake Zeitlin's book shop, with Landacre engraving on front page, c.1930's. * Calligraphed card, "For One Who Dispenses the Milk of Human Kindness from Paul and Margaret [Landacre]". No date. * "Books and Green Growing Things," a 4-page card advertising a move by Jake Zeitlin's book shop, with a pictorial map by Landacre. c.1936. * Fifty Prints of the Year, 1931-1932, from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, with Landacre's Point Sur being one of the prints. * KECA Concert Prographs, November 1933, with woodcut portrait of Beethoven by Landacre on front wrapper. * Opinion, for May 1930, 2 copies, with the woodcu