By Robert MacGregor Shaw
Paperbound; 186 pages; Offset printed
Finally, a book about letterpress printers in small shops and what they experienced on the job. It’s about their hopes, fears, frustrations, satisfactions, and pride in their work. As the author noted: “These are the people who, from the arrival of linecasting machines to the coming of offset printing and computerized typesetting in the mid-60s, did the difficult, dirty and often dangerous work of printing weekly newspapers.” Robert MacGregor Shaw’s story fills a distinct gap in American journalism.
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