San Francisco in 1866 : being letters to the Springfield Republican / edited by George R. Stewart and Edwin S. Fussell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harte, Bret, 1836-1902, author.

Contributor:

Book Club of California, publisher.

Grabhorn Press, 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. 78.

[Book Club of California. Publication] ; [number 78]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel.

San Francisco (Calif.).

San Francisco (Calif.)--History--Sources.

California--Description and travel.

California.

Travel.

California--San Francisco.

Genre:

History.

Sources.

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Mould-made papers (Paper)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Scotch Roman.

Marbled paper bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Gunter, John W. (stamp) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 88, [2] pages, [2] folded pages of plates : illustration ; 26 cm

Manufacture:

San Francisco : [P]rinted at the Grabhorn Press ..., August 1951.

Other Title:

Letters to the Springfield Republican

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1951.

Notes:

Publication date appears before publisher's name and place of publication after it in imprint.

"Four hundred copies printed at the Grabhorn Press of San Francisco in the month of August 1951"--Colophon.

"Title in blue and black, 'letter' headings in blue, running headings with blue rule. One folding plate inserted before first page of text. Type Scotch Roman monotype. Paper mold made."--Book Club of California.

Binding: quarter grey linen over blue marbled boards; blue paper spine label ("BRET HARTE LETTERS TO THE SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN") ; untrimmed fore- and tail edges (some deckled).

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript notes ("CA 21942" and "OSSD C1236 RO daw") 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 stamp ("From the Library of JOHN W. GUNTER") on front pastedown, title leaf, and page 13.

Cited in:

Book Club of California. The hundredth book http://www.bccbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BCCvol1-The-Hundredth-Book.pdf 78 (page 40)

Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, 78 (page 47)

OCLC:

2699071