Benjamin C. Truman : California booster & bon vivant / by Gary F. Kurutz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kurutz, Gary F., author.

Contributor:

Book Club of California, publisher.

Grace Hoper Press, printer.

Mackenzie & Harris, typographer.

Series:

Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 176.

Publication number 176 of The Book Club of California

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truman, Benjamin Cummings, 1835-1916.

Truman, Benjamin Cummings.

Pioneers--California--Biography.

Pioneers.

California.

Genre:

Biographies.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Machine-made papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bodoni Book.

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)

Edges, untrimmed (Binding)

Paper wrappers (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Schuyler, Robert L., 1947- (donor) (RBC copy)

Kemble, John Haskell, 1912-1990 (bookplate) (RBC copy)

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Book Club of California 1 & 122))

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Book Club of California 1 & 122))

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, vi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 4-89 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm.

Manufacture:

[San Francisco] : Printed at the Grace Hoper Press.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1984.

Notes:

"600 copies printed at The Grace Hoper Press. Publication number 176 of The Book Club of California. The type is Bodoni Book, set by Mackenzie & Harris Incorporated."--Colophon.

Publisher's name precedes place of publication on title page.

"Title in red and black. Initials in red. Photographic reproductions of front covers of two of Truman's books ... Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.

Binding: blue-green cloth; author's surname and brief title stamped in gold on spine; edges untrimmed

Includes bibliographical references (pages 88-89).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2010 by Professor Robert L. Schuyler.

Kislak Center copy has bookplate of John Haskell Kemble on front pastedown.

Kislak Center copy has publication announcement laid in.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies Book Club of California 1 and Book Club of California 122 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Book Club of California 1) in dust jacket with manuscript brief title ("TRUMAN") in pencil on spine.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Book Club of California 122) has manuscript note ("C879 NK") in pencil on front free endpaper.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Book Club of California 122) in dust jacket.

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 176 (page 42)

Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, 176 (page 53)

OCLC:

11400555