Scope and Content Note
This collection houses a tribute to printer Edwin Bliss Hill, a corrected typescript of Fleming's The Winning of Opie, and a catalog of the typefaces held at the Flying Coffin Press as of September 1, 1993.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1978, 1985, 1993
Creator
- Fleming, Dick (Person)
Language of Materials
Material in English
Access Restrictions
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Copyright
Arizona State University does not own the copyright to this collection. We recognize that it is incumbent upon the researcher to procure permission to publish information from this collection from the owner of the copyright.
Biographical Note
Richard Jarvis Dick
Fleming was born in Ohio but lived in Arizona for much of his adult life. He earned his B.A. and M.A. from Arizona State University, worked as a reporter for the Eloy (Arizona) Enterprise, and taught English in the Arizona public school system for seventeen years. After leaving teaching, he settled in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he became a full-time writer, amateur printer, and proprietor of the Flying Coffin Press.
Full extent
1 Box(es) (0.25 Linear Feet)
Full extent
0.25 Linear Feet
Abstract
This collection houses a tribute to printer Edwin Bliss Hill, a corrected typescript of Fleming's The Winning of Opie, and a catalog of the typefaces held at the Flying Coffin Press as of September 1, 1993.
Arrangement
This collection consists of one box.
Provenance
Dick Fleming donated these papers to Special Collections (Accession #2004-03159).
Subject
- Hill, Edwin Bliss, 1866-1949 (Person)
- Flying Coffin Press (Santa Fe, N.M.) (Organization)
- Title
- Dick Fleming Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Special Collections Staff; machine-readable finding guide created by Catalina Oyler; Reprocessed by Elizabeth Dunham in July of 2013.
- Date
- 2013
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding guide encoded in English.
Repository details
Part of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Repository
Contact
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