[Broadside]: An Evening at Lil's and How. This is the story of Tootie Mather Pat Percival Pete Bennett Bunny Rivers Bicky Towle & Deedee Bennett and how they spent the evening with Fran Ted Lilienthal at The Quercus Press in San Mateo on August seventeenth 1940

San Mateo, California: The Quercus Press, 1940. Unbound. Fine. First edition. Single sheet of white deckle-edged paper printed in black and red on recto only. Measuring 7 3/4 by 13 inches. Illustrated with two small decorative devices including an image of a horse printed in red, and a Quercus Press printer's device of an oak tree with the initials of printers "F"[ran], and "T"[ed] Lilienthal and "E"[dith] Van Antwerp]. Slight crease at one corner and a touch of foxing else fine. Inscribed by Ted Lilianthal: "Melba - and how! Ted." Theodore Max Lilienthal in 1924, with Leon Gelber established the Gelber-Lilienthal Book Shop in San Francisco, and a publishing company under the imprint Lantern Press. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Max Lilienthal, with Mrs. William C. Van Antwerp, later established the Quercus Press in San Mateo, California. In 1940 the Quercus Press began using the Albion Press that once belonged to William Morris (press was acquired from the estate of Dr. J. W. Bartlett of New York). A Quercus Press broadside in celebration of an evening with Fran and Ted Lilienthal at The Quercus Press in San Mateo, California. *OCLC* lists no holdings and has no citation for this broadside. *OCLC* does list holdings for a similar publication by The Quercus Press, entitled "An Evening with William Morris' Albion Proof Press April 1 1940" (four quarto pages), which celebrated the Albion Proof Press at an event in San Francisco, prior to its installation at The Quercus Press in San Mateo.