Dear Master : letters of George Sterling to Ambrose Bierce, 1900-1912 / edited with an introduction by Roger K. Larson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sterling, George, 1869-1926, correspondent.

Contributor:

Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?, correspondent.

Larson, Roger Keith, 1924- editor, writer of introduction.

Koch, Peter Rutledge, book designer, compositor, printer.

Seibert, Richard, book designer, compositor, printer.

Koch, Max, 1979- book designer, compositor, printer.

Schaefer, Susan, 1957- lithographer.

Martinez, Arnold, cover designer.

Book Club of California, publisher.

Watermark Graphics, lithographer.

Cardoza-James Binding Company, binder.

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

Series:

Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 215.

Publication ; no. 215

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sterling, George, 1869-1926--Correspondence.

Sterling, George.

Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence.

Authors, American.

Sterling, George, 1869-1926.

Genre:

Personal correspondence.

Private press books (Printing)

Facsimiles (Publishing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Minion.

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Greco Adornado.

Decorated paper bindings (Binding)

Pictorial bindings (Binding)

Slipcases (Binding)

Correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

255, [3] pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm

Manufacture:

[Place of printing not identified] : [P]rinted ... by Peter Rutledge Koch with the assistance of Richard Seibert and Max Koch.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 2002.

Notes:

Publisher's name appears before place of publication in imprint.

"Dear master was designed, composed, and printed in an edition of 350 copies by Peter Rutledge Koch with the assistance of Richard Seibert and Max Koch. The typefaces are Minion for the text and Greco Adornado for display. The photographs and the Gelette Burgess map of Bohemia reproduced on the end-sheets are provided courtesy of The Bancroft Library. The letter is reproduced courtesy of The New York Public Library. Photolithography by Susan Schaefer and Watermark Graphics. Bookbinding by Cardoza-James Bookbinding Company."--Colophon.

"Ten duo-tone photographs and tipped-in facsimile of a letter."--Book Club of California.

Binding: quarter red Japanese cloth over tan paper boards; title vignette reproduced on left board; tan paper spine label ("DEAR MASTER LETTERS OF GEORGE STERLING TO AMBROSE BIERCE 1900-1912 THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA"); illustrated endpapers; housed in green paper-covered slipcase by Arnold Martinez. See Book Club of California.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-255).

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C 1207 AEC") in pencil on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: slip case retained.

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 215 (pages 8-9)

OCLC:

52005916