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A valiant enterprise : a history of the Talisman Press, 1951-1993 : printers, publishers, and antiquarian booksellers / Robert Greenwood.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenwood, Robert, 1926-2018, author.
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 222.
- Publication number is 222 of the Book Club
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Talisman Press--History.
- Talisman Press.
- Greenwood, Robert, 1926-2018.
- Greenwood, Robert.
- Publishers and publishing--California.
- Publishers and publishing.
- Printers--California.
- Printers.
- Booksellers and bookselling--California.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Antiquarian booksellers--California.
- Antiquarian booksellers.
- Baird, Newton D.
- California.
- Genre:
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Cycles.
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
- Dust jackets (Binding)
- Publishers' advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 383, [1] pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Manufacture:
- [San Francisco] : Printing by Hatcher Press
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco] : The Book Club of California, 2007.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Jack W. Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press of San Francisco. Computer layout by Kina Sullivan. Set in Cycles type designed by Sumner Stone. Printing by Hatcher Press on Finch Vellum #70 under the supervision of Susan Schaefer. Binding By Roswell Book Bindery. Edition is limited to 350 copies."--Colophon.
- "Seven black-and-white historical photographs and reproductions."--Book Club of California.
- Binding: full green cloth; title and author stamped in gold on spine; plain paper dust jacket.
- "A bibliography of books published by the Talisman Press"--Pages 325-334.
- "A bibliography of books published by Talisman Literary Research, Inc."--Pages 335-336.
- "A supplement to California imprints, 1833-1862, a bibliography, edited by Robert Greenwood."--Pages 337-367.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C 1409 AKo[?]") 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 has laid in publisher's four-page advertisement for this edition with partially illegible manuscript note ("Porpoise & Pe[...]ine: see H. Evans") in pencil on page [1].
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: dust jacket retained; manuscript title ("A VALIANT ENTERPRISE") in pencil on spine of dust jacket.
- Cited in:
- Book Club of California. A bibliography of the books published by The Book Club of California 1993–2009 http://www.bccbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/2010Supplement.pdf 222 (page 12)
- OCLC:
- 166295384
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