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Frank Morrison Pixley of The Argonaut / by John L. Levinsohn.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levinsohn, John L., author.
- Series:
- Literary profiles series; 2nd.
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 190.
- Literary profiles series ; second
- Book Club of California publication ; no. 190
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pixley, Frank Morrison, 1825-1895.
- Pixley, Frank Morrison.
- Argonaut (San Francisco, Calif.).
- Journalists--California--San Francisco--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Editors--California--San Francisco--Biography.
- Editors.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Biography.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- California--San Francisco.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
- Machine-made papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bembo.
- Dust jackets (Binding)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 81, [3] pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Place of printing not identified] : [P]rinted by Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press.
- Other Title:
- Pixley of the Argonaut
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1989.
- Notes:
- Publication date appears before place of publication in imprint.
- "This book was designed and printed by Susan Acker at the Feathered Serpent Press, typeset at Mackenzie-Harris Corporation, bound by Cardoza-James Binding Company, with photographs printed by Marin Stat Graphic Arts, in an edition of four hundred fifty copies."--Colophon.
- "Title in red, orange, lavender and black, colophon in red and black, chapter headings in red. Illustrations throughout text taken from The Argonaut and other contemporary sources. Frontispiece photographic portrait. Eight plates, not included in pagination, throughout text. Type Bembo monotype. Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.
- "Second in the Literary Profiles series."--Title page verso.
- Binding: full grey cloth; title ("PIXLEY OF THE ARGONAUT") stamped in gold on spine; facsimile endpapers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [79]-81).
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C1267 AT") 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 white paper dust jacket with manuscript title ("F.M. PIXLEY") 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 190 (page 49)
- OCLC:
- 20362899
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