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Gelett Burgess behind the scenes : glimpses of fin de siècle San Francisco / by Gelett Burgess ; with commentaries by Joseph M. Backus.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Book Club of California 83
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951, author.
- Backus, Joseph M., author of commentaries.
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 128.
- Publication of the Book Club of California ; no. 128
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Description and travel.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- Theater--California--San Francisco.
- Theater.
- Travel.
- California--San Francisco.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Machine-made papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Goudy Light.
- 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:
- 128 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
- Manufacture:
- San Francisco : Printed by Grabhorn Hoyem ...
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Printed ... for The Book Club of California, 1968.
- Notes:
- "This edition is limited to four hundred copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem with woodcut decorations by Shirley Barker"--Colophon.
- "Printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem for The Book Club of California".
- "Distinctive pieces from the Wave [1897] in their historical, theatrical, and literary context"--Page [5].
- "Woodcut decorations by Shirley Barker in pale green and salmon on title and throughout text. Twenty-four photographic reproductions throughout text. Type Goudy Light monotype. Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.
- Binding by The Schuberth Bookbindery (with its stamp on back pastedown): quarter green cloth over brown, pale green and yellow green decorated boards; beige spine label with title printed in brown.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-128).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has extra spine label laid in.
- 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 128
- Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, page 50
- OCLC:
- 433881
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