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subjects for pieces, including Charles and Julius Altschul; Judge
Irving Lehman and Peter Lehman; and Philip J., Phyllis W, and
Howard Lehman Goodhart.

Altschul used the press to support his alma mater, Yale. He
founded the Yale Library Associates, for whom he printed Addresses
Commemorating the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Wil¬
liam Morris (\9'i 5), which was co-authored by Akschul's friend and
former mentor, Chauncey B. Tinker, and Carl P. Rollins, Printer to
the University. In addition to his usual team of Evans and MacNa¬
mara, Altschul hired Anna Simons to design woodcut initials and
Valenti Angelo to draw the border for the book. The press pro¬
duced two additional pieces for the Library Associates, and a num¬
ber of essays, speeches, and reports for other Yale bodies on which
Altschul served. For Yale's Pierson College, of which he was an
associate fellow, he published a war memorial book, Pierson College:
In Memorium, 1941-1946 (1947), and the two-volume history of
the college, Pierson College: The First Decade, 19?}-194i (1944),
which was illustrated by Thomas M. Cleland.

Altschul was a member of the distinguished Marshall Chess Club
in the 1920s and 1930s. In a letter to fellow chess enthusiast and
Yale scholar W K. Wimsatt, he recalls, "my own interest in chess
problems dates from schooldays when I used to play occasionally in
interscholastic tournaments, and I from time to time composed
modest two-movers." Altschul felt that books on chess were
"abominably printed," and in the early 1940s he published a series
of eight chess books of superior typography, one of which, A Sketch¬
book of American Chess Problematists, was selected in 1942 by the
American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the Fifty Books of
the Year.

Overbrook Press also published humorous pieces. One Hundred
Per Cent American (1939), an essay by Quentin Reynolds, had a
printer's device by Valenti Angelo depicting three pigs looking over
a fence. It was the only press publication to bear the Ikerally true
imprint "Pig Pen Press," in wry aflusion to the earlier use of the
building the press now occupied. Another humorous piece. Three