A bookbinder's analysis of the first edition of The wonderful Wizard of Oz / Michael O. Riley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riley, Michael O'Neal, author.

Contributor:

Koch, Peter Rutledge, book designer, printer.

Gerken, Jonathan, book designer, printer.

Slimbach, Robert, type designer.

Book Club of California, publisher.

Peter Koch, Printer, book designer, printer.

Coast Litho (Firm), lithographer.

John DeMerritt Bookbinding, binder.

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

Series:

Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 228.

Book Club of California. Publication ; number 228

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919. Wizard of Oz.

Baum, L. Frank.

Bookbinding--Illinois--Chicago--History.

Bookbinding.

Wizard of Oz (Baum, L. Frank).

History.

Illinois--Chicago.

Genre:

History.

Private press books (Printing)

Errata lists (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Adobe Jenson.

Printed wrappers (Binding)

Slipcases (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

47 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm.

Manufacture:

Berkeley, California : [P]rinted by Peter Rutledge Koch, assisted by Jonathan Gerken, at Peter Koch Printers ...

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 2011.

Notes:

Place of publication appears after publisher's name in imprint.

"A bookbinder's analysis of The wonderful wizard of Oz was produced in an edition of 300 copies for The Book Club of California. It was designed and printed by Peter Rutledge Koch, assisted by Jonathan Gerken, at Peter Koch Printers in Berkeley, California ... Photo-lithography by Coast Litho, Oakland, California."--Errata slip.

"The typeface is Adobe Jenson. It was designed by Robert Slimbach in 1996 ...The book was bound & cased by John DeMerritt Bookbinding in Emeryville, California."--Colophon.

Errata slip laid in.

Issued in a slip case.

Binding: dark red paper wrappers; front wrapper illustrated in black with title printed in black on an orange background; title and author's name printed in black on spine; orange endpapers.

Local Notes:

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy housed as issued in slip case with: Hanff, Peter E. Cyclone on the prairies. San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 2011.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: slip case retained.

Contains:

Hanff, Peter E. Cyclone on the prairies.

OCLC:

748820598

Bound With:

Issued with: Cyclone on the prairies : The wonderful Wizard of Oz and arts & crafts of publishing in Chicago, 1900 / Peter E. Hanff. (141, [3] pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm).