Ah-wah-ne days : a visit to the Yosemite Valley in 1872 / by "H. H." (Helen Hunt Jackson) ; introduction by Oscar Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885, author.

Lewis, Oscar, 1893-1992, author of introduction.

Contributor:

Dean, Mallette, 1907-1975, printer.

Mackenzie & Harris, compositor.

Book Club of California, publisher.

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. 137.

Publication ... of the Book Club of California ; number 137

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--Description and travel.

Yosemite Valley (Calif.).

Travel.

California--Yosemite Valley.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Machine-made papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Van Dijck.

Decorated paper bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Publishers’ advertisements.

Travel literature.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

84 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Manufacture:

Kentfield, California : Mallette Dean

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1971.

Summary:

Jackson described the wonders of Yosemite Valley to the growing interest of Americans in their country.

Notes:

"450 copies of this book have been made by Mallette Dean at Kentfield, California, with Van Dijck monotype composition by Mackenzie & Harris and binding by Cardoza-James. This is publication number 137 of The Book Club of California."--Colophon.

"Title and rule at head of introduction in terra cotta and black; device in printer’s notice in black, white and yellow; half-title in terra cotta. Title illustration and seven chapter head pieces in color by Mallette Dean. Type Van Dijck monotype. Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.

Binding: quarter yellow-green cloth over green and beige decorated boards; green and white spine label with title printed in black; untrimmed edges.

Originally published in sixteen installments in the New York independent, June 20-Nov. 12, 1872.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C1236 AKC dail") 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 prospectus for this edition and reply envelope laid in.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy in green paper and mylar dust jackets.

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 number 137

Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, page 51

Other Format:

Online version: Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885. Ah-wah-ne days.

OCLC:

163549