Early California stock certificates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jutzi, Alan H., 1945- author.

Greenawalt, Robert O., author.

Dillon, Richard H., author.

Ottley, Allan R., author.

Farrar, L. D., author.

Garcia, Herbert Ely, 1928-2002, author.

Smith, Clifton F., author.

Wurm, Ted, 1919-2004, author.

Gilleran, Elaine, author.

Contributor:

Shumate, Albert, editor, author.

Kelley, Don G. (Don Graeme), book designer, printer.

Acker, Susan, 1946- book designer, printer.

Book Club of California, publisher.

Feathered Serpent Press, printer.

Paragraphics (San Rafael, Calif.), printer.

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

Series:

Keepsake series (Book Club of California) ; 1978.

The Book Club of California: 1978 Keepsake series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stock certificates--California.

Stock certificates.

California.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Slipcases (Binding)

Keepsakes.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Times New Roman.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Times New Roman Italic.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Wide Latin.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Chisel.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered parts : illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm.

Manufacture:

San Anselmo : Printed by Don Greame Kelley, assisted by Susan Acker, at the Feathered Serpent Press.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1978.

Contents:

California Fruit Growers Exchange / Alan Jutzi

Hotel Arcadia / Robert O. Greenwalt

Los Angeles Pioneer Oil Co. / Albert Schumate, M.D.

The North Hite & Yosemite Gold Mining Company of California / Richard Dillon

Peoples Ice Company / Allan R. Ottley

Sacramento Valley Rail Road Company / L.D. Farrar

San Mateo and Half Moon Bay Turnpike Road Company / Herbert Ely Garcia

Santa Barbara College / Clifton F. Smith

Spring Valley Water Company / Ted Wurm

Wells, Fargo & Company / Elaine Gilleran.

Notes:

Title in green and black.

"This series of Keepsakes consists of 10 folders issued by The Book Club of California to its members during 1978. The series was under the general direction of Albert Shumate, M.D., with the assistance of Ted Wurm, Elaine Gilleran, Donald Fleming, and Gaye Kelly. It was designed and printed by Don Greame Kelley, assisted by Susan Acker, at the Feathered Serpent Press, San Anselmo; handset in The Times New Roman and Italic, Wide Latin, and Chisel. Certificates offset printed by Paragraphics, San Rafael."--Colophon on each folder.

In a blue bookcloth covered slipcase with title in gilt on spine (27 cm).

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C1345 AY") in pencil on first page of Spring Valley Water Company folder.

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: slip case retained.

Cited in:

Olmsted, Duncan H. Seventy years: a checklist of Book Club publications, 1914-1983, XLI (page 59)

OCLC:

13616993