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A typographic journey : the history of the Greenwood Press and bibliography, 1934-2000 / by Jack Werner Stauffacher ; bibliography by Glenn Humphreys.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Book Club of California 61
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stauffacher, Jack W. (Jack Werner), 1920-2017, author, book designer.
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 210.
- Publication ; no. 210
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greenwood Press (San Francisco, Calif.)--History.
- Greenwood Press (San Francisco, Calif.).
- Greenwood Press (San Francisco, Calif.)--Bibliography.
- Printing--California--San Francisco--History.
- Printing.
- Printers--California--San Francisco--History.
- Printers.
- California.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Errata lists (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Cycles.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Trajan.
- Publishers’ advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 323 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Manufacture:
- Brisbane, California : Printing by Phelps/Schaefer
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco] : The Book Club of California, 1999.
- Notes:
- "Design by Jack Werner Stauffacher of the Greenwood Press. Typesetting by Francesca Stauffacher and Kina Sullivan. Printed on Mohawk Superfine, softwhite-eggshell, 70 text. Set in Cycles types, designed by Sumner Stone, with the exception of pages 54, 74 set in Trajan designed by Carol Twombly. Printing by Phelps/Schaefer, Brisbane, California. Binding by Cardoza-James Binding Company, San Francisco. Edition is limited to 450 copies"--Colophon.
- "Second color (red) on title page ... Bound in dark Japanese green cloth with title printed in paper label inset on spine. Paper jacket with red letter G on front and title on spine. Four inserts printed in 3 colors (red, blue, black) and handset in Kis, Hunt Roman, and Univers types."--Book Club of California.
- Corrigendum sheet laid in.
- "A bibliographical checklist": Pages 243-314.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 320) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C 1049 AOO") 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 laid in.
- 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 number 210
- OCLC:
- 42678991
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