Giacomo Patri collection, 1930-2010

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Series II: Publications



Box 2 Patri, Giacomo White Collar: Novel in Linocuts, 1939, 1 volume; 8vo, spiral-bound illustrated black wrappers

Signed by Patri.

A Home Made Book #27

Inscribed; "December 24, 1939/To Mother/On Her Birthday?In a land whwre:/Liberty?May still be sung"/Allan



Box 1 Patri, Giacomo White Collar: Novel in Linocuts 2nd edition, 1940, 1 volume

In slipcase

With a six page collation.


Box 1 Patri, Giacomo White Collar: Novel in Linocuts.

In a damaged plastic binding.

Missing front cover, title page, and half title page.


Box 1 Patri, Giacomo White Collar: Novel in Linocuts. San Francisco, CA: Pisani Printing & Publishing Co., 1940, 1 volume

With and Indroduction by Rockwell Kent

Third Edition


Box 1 Patri, Giacomo White Collar: Novel in Linocuts. San Francisco, CA: Pisani Printing & Publishing Co., 1940, 1 volume

Introduction by Rockwell Kent

Epilogue by John L. Lewis



Box 2 Patri, Giacomo White Collar: Novel in Linocuts. Millbrae, CA: Celestial Arts, 1975, 1 volume

Inscribed by Patri to Lewis and Ruth


Box 2 Patri, Giacomo, illustrator Stronger than Death: Short Stories of the Russians at War. San Francisco: American Russian Institute, 1944, 1 volume

1 of 1,500 copies printed.


Box 2 David, Joseph E.; 2nd Mission to Moscow. San Francisco: Pacific Publishing Foundation, Inc., 1 volume

Cover by Patri


Box 2 Duke, David Nelson In the Trenches with Jesus and Marx. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2003, 1 volume

On Cover: Lynn Ward's 1963 wood engraving "Portrait of My Father"


Box 2 Epstein, Jacob and Arnold L. Haskell The Sculptor Speaks : A Series of Conversations on Art. New York: Garden City, 1932, 1 volume

Stamped: Patri School of Art Fundamentals 940 Grove Street San Francisco, Calif.



Box 1 Johnson, Mark Dean At Work: The Art of California Labor. San Francisco: California Historical Society Press, 2003, 1 volume

In slipcase, with CD

Foreword by Gray Brechin. Afterword by Tillie Olsen.



Box 2 Masereel, Frans The City. New York: Schocken Books, 1989, 1 volume


Box 2 Rimmer, W. Elements of Design. Book First. Boston, S. R. Urbino, 1984, 1 volume

Bookplate "patri school of art fundamentals. 473 jackson san francisco 11 do 2-7832"


Box 2 Von Blum, Paul The Critical Vision: A History of Social & Political Art in the U.S.. Boston, MS: South End Press, 1982, 1 volume

Inscribed: "For Tamara/With respect/and all best wishes/Paul Von Blum/September, 1986"

Tamara is Harry F. Ward's sister.



Box 1 Woodhouse, Doris and Warren d'Azevedo New Rejections Edition No. III, May 1943

This is the third and final issue of "New Rejections", which was a literary magazine created by Woodhouse and d'Azevedo as a creative counterbalance to UC Berkeley's conservative magazine "Grizzly". "New Rejections" was a play on the name of the popular quarterly journal "New Directions". This edition was considered their "labor issue" and featured three woodcuts by Giacomo Patri of waterfront laborers.



Box 2 How to Organize the Job: A Handbook for Stewards. San Francisco: Pile Drivers, Bridge, Warf and Dock Builders Local Union No. 34, 1 volume

With illustrations by Patri



Box 1 Soviet Culture . . . in Wartime No. 3. San Francisco: American Russian Institute, 1943, 1 item

Includes b;lack and white photographs, plus several small drawings by Patri. Contributions by Holland Roberts and Owen Lattimore.



Box 2 Victory Through Unionism. San Francisco: Pile Drivers, Bridge, Warf and Dock Builders Local Union No. 34, 2 copies

Cover and illustrations by Patri


Box 2 We are Many People Living Together. San Francisco: The Council for Civic Unity, 1 volume

Designed by Patri



Box 1 Wood's Popular Natural History. Front cover only

Stamped: Patri School of Art/Fundamentals/940 Grave Street/San Francisco, Calif.


Box 1 Summary page of In the Trenches with Jesus and Marx: Harry F. Ward and the Struggle for Social Justice , 1 page


Box 1 Giacomo Patri Retrospective 1930-1978 San Francicso: Musee Italo Americano, 1982, 1 pamphlet