Bayside Bohemia : fin de siècle San Francisco & its little magazines / by Gelett Burgess ; introduction by James D. Hart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951, author.

Contributor:

Hart, James D. (James David), 1911-1990, writer of introduction.

Seeger, Harold, book designer, printer.

Sperisen, Albert, 1908-1999, book designer, printer.

Book Club of California, publisher.

Black Vine Press, book designer, printer.

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

Series:

Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 87.

[Book Club of California. Publication] ; [number 87]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism--California--San Francisco--Anecdotes.

Journalism.

Little magazines--California--San Francisco--Anecdotes.

Little magazines.

California--San Francisco.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Facsimiles (Publishing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Machine-made papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon Old Style.

Printed boards (Binding)

Publishers’ advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

ix, [3], 13-42, [2] pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles (some color, some folded) ; 27 cm

Manufacture:

San Francisco : [P]rinted by Harold Seeger & Albert Sperisen at their Black Vine Press ..., October 1954.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1954.

Contents:

City of contrasts

The lark

Le petit journal des refusées

Phyllida, or, The milkmaid

The wave.

Notes:

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

"[Y]our printers ... have used Burgess' favorite type face, Caslon Old Style. The Goop decoration for the chapter headings is adapted from the author's personal mark, whose full form is used to end this colophon. The full cloth of the binding approximates that which was used on the collected editions of The lark, and its design is adapted from that which Burgess used on the back cover of The lark's first issue. 375 copies designed and printed by Harold Seeger & Albert Sperisen at their Black Vine Press, San Francisco, October, 1954"--Colophon.

"Title in red and black, section numbers in red. Illustrations on title and one plate by Gelett Burgess. Four facsimiles inserted, two folding. Type Caslon Old Style linotype. Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.

Binding: full tan cloth; title stamped in brown on left board and spine; untrimmed fore- and tail edges.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has bookseller's manuscript note in pencil on front free endpaper; manuscript note ("C 725 TE") 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 publisher's four-page prospectus for this edition laid in.

Cited in:

Book Club of California. The hundredth book http://www.bccbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BCCvol1-The-Hundredth-Book.pdf 87 (page 45)

Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, 87 (page 48)

OCLC:

1248901