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A widely cast net : selections from the work of a veteran California writer / chosen with comments by their author, Oscar Lewis ; Wayne Bonnett, editor.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Book Club of California 25
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Oscar, 1893-1992, author.
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 205.
- Book Club of California. Publication ; no. 205
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lewis, Oscar, 1893-1992.
- Lewis, Oscar.
- California--Fiction.
- California.
- California--Description and travel.
- California--History.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Dust jackets (Binding)
- Edges, untrimmed (Binding)
- Physical Description:
- 133, [3] pages (first two pages blanks) : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Place of printing not identified] : [P]rinted by Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press and Anchor & Acorn Press
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1996.
- Contents:
- Short stories
- Commentary
- Travel
- Serendipity
- In a lighter vein
- Books & their authors
- Book excerpts.
- Notes:
- Place of publication appears after publisher's name in imprint.
- "This book was designed and printed by Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press and Anchor & Acorn Press. It was bound by Cardoza-James in an edition of four hundred copies for The Book Club of California"--Colophon.
- "Frontispiece designed and printed by James Wehlage from a photograph (n.d.) of Oscar Lewis in The Club's rooms, taken by James Hammond."--Verso of title leaf.
- "Second color (blue). 35 line illustrations. Tipped-in photograph of Lewis."--Book Club of California.
- Binding: quarter blue linen over white boards; title printed in blue on left board; title and author's name stamped in silver on spine; gray endpapers; untrimmed fore-edges.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy in dust jacket with manuscript title and author's name ("A WIDELY CAST NET O. LEWIS") in pencil on spine.
- OCLC:
- 39791586
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