Commonwealth v. Gordon, and others / the opinion of Judge Bok, March eighteenth, 1949.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pennsylvania. Court of Quarter Sessions (Philadelphia County), issuing body.

Contributor:

Bok, Curtis, 1897-1962, judge.

Knopf, Blanche W., 1894-1966, publisher.

Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984, publisher.

Gordon Firm (Philadelphia, Pa.), defendant.

Grabhorn Press, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Obscenity (Law)--Pennsylvania.

Obscenity (Law).

Pennsylvania.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Case bindings (Binding)

Slipcases (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Legal works.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, 57 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco] : Printed by the Grabhorn Press for Blanche and Alfred Knopf, [1949]

Summary:

The case of five booksellers brought to trial, Jan. 3, 1949, on the charge of violating the Pennsylvania statute which prohibits the sale of obscene books.

Notes:

"Five hundred copies have been printed by the Grabhorn Press for Blanche and Alfred Knopf Christmas 1949"--Colophon.

Title in red and black within red-ruled borders; text in black within red-ruled borders.

Printed marginalia.

Deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has leaf (letterhead of Mosher Books) with bookseller's typescript description of this copy laid in; blue leaf ruled in red with printed Christmas greeting from Blanche and Alfred Knopf laid in.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy housed in slip case.

Cited in:

Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 491

OCLC:

1880921