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Jane Grabhorn was a typographer, bookbinder, and co-founder of the Colt Press. Born in 1911 in San Francisco, she married Robert Grabhorn, one of the founders of the Grabhorn Press, in 1932 and gained knowledge of typography and printing by working with her husband. In 1938, Jane Grabhorn and William M. Roth started the Colt Press, an independent commercial publishing venture which reached its climax in 1941 with the publication of ""McTeague."" After the Colt Press closed in 1942, Grabhorn returned to work for the Grabhorn Press, where she oversaw the bindery until it closed in 1965. In this interview, she discusses the Jumbo Press and the beginnings of the Colt Press, different methods of binding and typesetting, and the economics of fine book production. This interview is part of a group of interviews documenting literature, publishing, and printing in the Bay Area.

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