A western journey with Mr. Emerson / by James Bradley Thayer ; edited with a foreword and notes by Shirley Sargent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thayer, James Bradley, 1831-1902, author.

Contributor:

Sargent, Shirley, editor, writer of supplementary textual content.

Hoffman, Richard J., printer.

Blau, Bela, binder.

Book Club of California, publisher.

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

Series:

Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 163.

Publication ; number 163

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

California--Description and travel.

California.

West (U.S.)--Description and travel.

West (U.S.).

Travel.

West United States.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Machine-made papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Janson.

Decorated paper bindings (Binding)

Dust jackets (Binding)

Travel literature.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

110, [2] pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm

Manufacture:

Van Nuys, California : Printed ... by Richard J. Hoffman.

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco] : The Book Club of California, 1980.

Notes:

Reprint of the 1884 edition published by Little Brown, Boston.

"(Original copyright 1884)"--Verso of title leaf.

"600 copies printed in Janson types by Richard J. Hoffman, Van Nuys, California"--Colophon.

"Title, initial letters in red and grey. Eight photographic reproductions throughout text. Map on p. (56) drawn by David F. Myrick ... Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.

Binding: quarter black cloth over decorated yellow-green, green and black boards; title, author and decoration stamped in gold on spine. "Bound by Bela Blau, Los Angeles"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript notes ("20988 (GRABHORN PRESS) C1397 KA") in pencil on page [1].

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy in white 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 163

Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, page 52

OCLC:

253774656