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By horse, stage & packet : the Far West letters of Joseph Pratt Allyn / John Nicolson, David K. Strate, editors.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allyn, Joseph Pratt, 1833-1869, author.
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 187.
- Publication ; number 187
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Allyn, Joseph Pratt, 1833-1869--Travel--California.
- Allyn, Joseph Pratt.
- Allyn, Joseph Pratt, 1833-1869--Travel--West (U.S.).
- Allyn, Joseph Pratt, 1833-1869--Correspondence.
- Allyn, Joseph Pratt, 1833-1869.
- California--Description and travel.
- California.
- West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
- West (U.S.).
- Travel.
- West United States.
- Genre:
- Personal correspondence.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Machine-made papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Monotype Kis-Janson.
- Pictorial bindings (Binding)
- Dust jackets (Binding)
- Correspondence.
- Travel literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, [1], 192, [4] pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 27 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Sebastopol, California] : Patrick Reagh Printers
- Other Title:
- By horse, stage and packet
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1988.
- Notes:
- Letters originally published in the Hartford evening press, 1863-1866.
- Publisher's name appears before place of publication in imprint.
- "Edition limited to 450 copies"--Colophon.
- "Designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press, San Francisco. Printed on Mohawk Superfine and set in Monotype Kis-Janson types by Patrick Reagh Printers. Binding by Bela Blau."--Colophon.
- "Title in red and black, chapter headings in red. Ten numbered plates of photographic reproductions and other material. Type Kis-Janson monotype. Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.
- Binding: Grey and white pictorial boards (photographic reproduction); white printed spine label ("By horse, stage & packet The Far West letters of Joseph Pratt Allyn John Nicolson David K. Strate").
- "Joseph Pratt Allyn--a brief biography": Pages xiv-xxiii.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("NA C1267") 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 title ("BY HORSE, STATE & PACKET") in pencil on spine.
- 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 187 (page 48)
- Other Format:
- Online version: Allyn, Joseph Pratt, 1833-1869. By horse, stage & packet.
- OCLC:
- 18607715
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