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A gracious visitation / written by Emma Frances Dawson ; with an appreciation by Ambrose Bierce.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Book Club of California 82
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dawson, Emma Frances, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Fiction.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- California--San Francisco.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Handmade papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Garamond.
- Decorated paper bindings (Binding)
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [8], 69, [7] pages : music ; 24 cm
- Manufacture:
- [San Francisco] : Printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn, February MCMXXI [February 1921]
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : The Book Club of California, MCMXXI [1921]
- Notes:
- "Three hundred copies printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn in February MCMXXI for the Book Club of California ..."--Colophon.
- "Title in red and black, captions in red. Type Garamond, handset. Paper hand-made ... The first book to be printed for the Club by the Grabhorn Press"--Book Club of California.
- Binding: Quarter russet cloth over black and orange marbled boards; title stamped in gold on spine; deckled edges.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 67 (the copy number supplied in manuscript in red ink) of a limited edition of 300 copies. See colophon.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has a few manuscript notes in pencil on front free endpaper.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.
- Cited in:
- Book Club of California. The hundredth book http://www.bccbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BCCvol1-The-Hundredth-Book.pdf number 13
- Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, page 44
- OCLC:
- 3335059
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