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• Title:Arsenal Pulp Press fonds
  
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• Corporate Author/Creator:Arsenal Pulp Press.
  
• Published/Created:approximately 1930, 1967-2012, predominate 1984-2012
  

• Holdings

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Box 388
    
    

  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS mapsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Box 1-387
    
    

  • Location:RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1015
    
  • Number of Items:387
    
  • Status:c.1 Box 23 Requested
    c.1 Box 179 Requested
    c.1 Box 193 Requested
    c.1 Box 194 Requested
    c.1 Box 280 Requested
    c.1 Box 380 Requested
    c.1 Box 234 Requested
    c.1 Box 256 Requested
    c.1 Box 186 Requested
    c.1 Box 187 Requested
    
  • Location Has:Box 1-387
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Arsenal Pulp Press.
  
• Description:65. 26 m of textual records and other material
  
• Summary:The fonds consists of the business records created and/or collected by Arsenal Pulp Press, predominately from the early 1980s to the late 2000s. These records consist of correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, reviews, catalogues, broadsheets, advertisements, flyers, clippings concerning Arsenal publications and the Press, artwork, financial and sales records, ledgers, legal records, minutes and other organizational material.
  
• Biography/history note:Established in 1971 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Scriveners Pulp Press Limited was one of several ventures in alternative arts and literature of the early 1970s. In addition to fiction, poetry and drama titles, Scriveners' issued a twice-monthly literary magazine, Three-Cent Pulp, from 1972 to 1978. In 1981 Scriveners' initiated a subscription library service, the Arsenal Collaborative Library, to serve as a central distribution point for readers, writers and publishers. Following the sale of its typesetting and printing operations in 1982, the company changed its name to Arsenal Pulp Press. Although still a literary press, Arsenal gradually began to publish literary non-fiction titles, and it continued to maintain a tradition of commitment to publications about British Columbia. In the fall of 2001, Arsenal Pulp Press celebrated its 30th anniversary. The management and editorial team during its first decade of operation included Stephen Osborne, William Gregory Enright, D.M. Fraser, Jon Furberg, and Charles Tidler. In 1982, following the sale of its typesetting and printing operations, Pulp changed its name to Arsenal Pulp Press. In 1988 Brian Lam joined Arsenal following a co-op placement at the Press while studying creative writing at the University of Victoria. Lam became president in 1992 and co-owner with Stephen Osborne, one of the original owners and now editor of the literary magazine Geist.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Online inventory available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.