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Vignettes of early California : childhood reminiscences of Juan Bautista Alvarado / translated by John H.R. Polt ; with an introduction & notes by W. Michael Mathes.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Book Club of California 44
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alvarado, Juan Bautista, 1809-1882, author.
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 171.
- Publication ; number 171
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Alvarado, Juan Bautista, 1809-1882--Childhood and youth.
- Alvarado, Juan Bautista.
- Alvarado, Juan Bautista, 1809-1882.
- California--Social life and customs.
- California.
- California--History--To 1846.
- Governors--California--Biography.
- Governors.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Machine-made papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Janson.
- Dust jackets (Binding)
- Decorated paper bindings (Binding)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xvi, [2], 38, [8] pages : facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm
- Manufacture:
- Glendale, California : Printed by Patrick Reagh, Printers
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1982.
- Notes:
- Publisher's name appears before place of publication in imprint.
- "650 copies designed and printed by Patrick Reagh, Printers, Glendale, California. Binding by Kater-Crafts Bookbinders."--Colophon.
- "Title in beige and black. Facsimile of page of the manuscript p. (xviii). Type Janson monotype. Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.
- Binding: quarter brown cloth over tan and beige decorated boards; beige spine label ("Vignettes of Early California") printed in tan and black.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [41]-[43]).
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript notes ("C1180 CO" and "Patrick Reagh, Printer 1/650") 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.
- 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 171
- Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, page 53
- Other Format:
- Online version: Alvarado, Juan Bautista, 1809-1882. Vignettes of early California.
- OCLC:
- 8988852
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