Author: Odell Shepard; A R Tommasini
Title: A Belated Tribute to Printers. (Hand Numbered 29 of 550 Copies of This Christmas Keepsake Printed in December 1957). (Signed and Inscribed Note Laid in)
Description: San Francisco: A.R. Tommasini, 1957. 16mo. 19 pp. Very Good+. Hard Cover. Illustrated paper covered boards. Glassine dust jacket. Stitch binding. Color illustrations. From a series of Christmas keepsakes by A.R. Tommasini. Tommy Tommasini began publishing the keepsakes on Christmas 1948 which were mailed in decorative mailing envelopes in limited editions of 50 to 950 copies. Inset laid in. Inset autographed and inscribed by A R Tommasini on verso. This essay, acknowledging the important but often overlooked contributions of printers to the work of writers and publishers, first appeared in The Christian Science Monitor on Thursday, February 3, 1927. Odell Shepard was an American professor, poet, and politician who was the 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943; Shepard won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938. .

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