Collected letters / Frank Norris ; compiled and annotated by Jesse S. Crisler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Norris, Frank, 1870-1902, author.

Contributor:

Crisler, Jesse S., compiler, annotator.

Hart, James D. (James David), 1911-1990, writer of foreword.

Tanner, Wesley B., printer.

Powers, Will Henry, printer.

Olson, Rik, engraver.

Nelson, Stan, type designer.

Phelps-Schaefer Lithographics, printer.

Mackenzie-Harris Corporation, type designer.

Cardoza-James Binding Company, binder.

Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 182.

Publication ; number 182

Standardized Title:

Correspondence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Norris, Frank, 1870-1902. Correspondence.

Norris, Frank.

Novelists, American--19th century--Correspondence.

Novelists, American.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Machine-made papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Monotype Scotch Roman.

Paper wrappers (Binding)

Autobiographies.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

238 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portraits ; 32 cm.

Manufacture:

Berkelely : [P]rinted by Will Henry Powers and Wesley B. Tanner.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1986.

Notes:

"In part, this book was conceived to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Franklin Walker's first compilation for the Club of Norris letters (1956, #92). The letters and fragments included here, twenty-six of which have not been previously published, cover the years 1891-1902. An appendix contains forty-one inscriptions by Norris. Foreword by James D. Hart."--Book Club of California.

"Five hundred copies of this book were printed by Will Henry Powers and Wesley B. Tanner in Berkeley. The title page portrait was cut in wood by Rik Olson of South San Francisco. Stan Nelson of Columbia, Maryland created the special [character] character for this book, cutting the punch and driving the matrix. Phelps/Schaefer Litho-Graphics Co. of Brisbane printed the illustrations. The type, Monotype Scotch Roman, was composed by Mackenzie-Harris Corp. of San Francisco. The paper is Mohawk Superfine Text. The books were bound in San Francisco by Cardoza-James Binding Co."--Colophon.

"Publication number 182"--Title page verso.

"Title in red, yellow and black ... Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.

Binding: Quarter red cloth over red and cream decorated boards; black panel stamped in gold with author's surname and title between two sets of triple horizontal rules on spine.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-238).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C1267 NN") in pencil on front free endpaper.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy in dust jacket with manuscript spine title ("FRANK NORRIS Letters").

Cited in:

Book Club of California. The two hundredth book http://www.bccbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BCCvol2-The-Two-Hundredth-Book.pdf 182 (page 45)

Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, 182 (page 54)

OCLC:

14929800