[7] The press was named after the street on which it was located, in a small building that he and his father built behind the family home in San Mateo, California.
[9] His first printed book appeared in 1941 when he was 20 years old, Washington Irving's "Three Choice Sketches By Geoffrey Crayon, Gent" based on The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent..[8] In 1955, he received a Fulbright grant for three years of study in Florence, Italy,[10] and decided to close Greenwood Press.
[7] After his return to the United States, he became assistant professor of typographic design at Carnegie Mellon University and his work led to the formation of the New Laboratory Press.
[4] In 1966, he reopened the Greenwood Press in a building at 300 Broadway in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco[12] and resumed producing books and limited editions such as Albert Camus and the Men of Stone (1971).
[7][8] His work was the subject of a short biographical documentary film by filmmaker Jim Faris, Jack Stauffacher, Printer (2002).