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Oscar Lewis : 1893-1992.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Book Club of California 37
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Reference Collection PS3523.E8754 Z78 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Oscar, 1893-1992, author.
- Shumate, Albert, author.
- Starr, Kevin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lewis, Oscar, 1893-1992.
- Lewis, Oscar.
- Book Club of California.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Printed wrappers (Binding)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Book Club of California 22 & 37))
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Book Club of California 22 & 37))
- Physical Description:
- 24 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
- Manufacture:
- [San Francisco] : The Arion Press.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1992.
- Contents:
- Growing pains, some memories of the Club's earlier years / by Oscar Lewis
- Oscar Lewis and the Westgate press
- Oscar Lewis as book club secretary / by Dorothy L. Whitnah
- Oscar Lewis, Clamper / by Albert Shumate
- The world of Oscar Lewis / by Kevin Starr.
- Notes:
- "As a tribute to Oscar's memory and his seventy years of giving to the Club, the Book Club's Publication Committee asked several members to assist in creating this memorial publication. Dorothy Whitnah, former Executive Secretary of the Club, graciously edited the publication ..."--Page 3.
- "Portrait on the cover by Mallette Dean ... One thousand one hundred copies printed at the Arion Press."--Verso of title leaf.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies Book Club of California 22 and Book Club of California 37 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Book Club of California 22) has manuscript notes ("NT PRB" and "ARION PRESS 1/1100") in pencil on blank leaf at beginning of volume.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Book Club of California 37) has manuscript note ("C1239 C") in pencil on blank leaf at beginning of volume.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Book Club of California 37) in gray paper dust jacket with manuscript spine title ("L KENNEDY").
- OCLC:
- 27198803
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