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Title: Biobooks Records
Date (inclusive): 1934-1979
Collection number: 1301
Creator:
Biobooks.
Extent:
25 boxes (12.5 linear ft.)
2 oversize folders.
Abstract: Collection includes archives of Biobooks, Oakland, California, including correspondence files, ca. 1942-1953, ephemera, U.S.
Geological Survey maps of California, print blocks used for publications by Biobooks, as well as the Grabhorn Press, book
dealers' catalogs, book covers, unbound texts of books, dummy books, and a manuscript by Helen Giffen,
Casas and courtyards.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Collection consists of the records of Biobooks (Oakland, CA), including bookdealers' catalogs, reports, invoices, manuscripts,
printed material, drawings, photographs, business files, correspondence, US Geological Survey maps of CA, and print blocks
used for publications by Biobooks, as well as the Grabhorn Press. Includes a manuscript by Helen Giffen,
Casas & courtyards : historic adobe houses of California (1955).
Arranged in the following series:
- Bookdealers' catalogs (boxes 1-4)
- Manuscripts (boxes 5-6)
- Printed material (boxes 5-11, 20-27)
- Drawings and photographs (box 11)
- Print blocks (boxes 11, 14-19)
- Business files, including correspondence (boxes 12-13).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Biobooks--Archives.
Publishers and publishing--California--Oakland--Archival resources.
Other Index Terms Related to this Collection
Giffen, Helen S. Helen Smith), 1893- --Casas & courtyards.