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Lawton Kennedy, printer / Ruth Teiser ; foreword by James D. Hart.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Teiser, Ruth, author.
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 188.
- Publication number 188 of The Book Club of California
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kennedy, Lawton, 1900-1980.
- Kennedy, Lawton.
- Printing--California--History--20th century.
- Printing.
- Printers--California--Biography.
- Printers.
- California.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Machine-made papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Van Dijck.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 107, [3] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
- Manufacture:
- Mountain View, California : Artichoke Press
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco] : The Book Club of California, 1988.
- Notes:
- "Lawton Kennedy, printer was designed and printed in an edition of 450 copies by Jonathan Clark at The Artichoke Press in Mountain View, California. The text was set in Monotype Van Dijck by Othmar Peters at Mackenzie-Harris in San Francisco. Bindings were executed by The Schuberth Bookbindery."--Colophon.
- "Title in blue and black on yellow background. Frontispiece photographic portrait and thirteen reproductions in color of Lawton Kennedy’s printing ... Type Van Dijck monotype. Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.
- Binding: quarter blue cloth over grey boards; device stamped in gold on left board; grey paper spinel label printed in blue with title; decorated endpapers.
- "A note on the types / Jonathan Clark": Pages [99]-107.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has a few manuscript notes in pencil on publisher's prospectus and blank leaf preceding half-title leaf.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has laid in "Notice" from The Book Club of California and publisher's prospectus for this edition with order envelope.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy in gray paper dust jacket with manuscript title in pencil on spine.
- 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 188
- Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, page 54
- OCLC:
- 20284814
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