The colt springs high : a publishing memoir of the Colt Press, 1938-1942 / by William M. Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roth, William M. (William Matson), 1916-2014, author.

Contributor:

Hoyem, Andrew, book designer.

Todd, Glenn, editor.

Book Club of California, publisher.

Arion Press, printer.

Biss Printing, Inc., lithographer.

Legion Paper, papermaker.

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

Series:

Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 217.

Publication ; no. 217

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colt Press--History.

Colt Press.

Colt Press--Bibliography.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

History.

Private press books (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Kennerley.

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

XII, 213, [3] pages, [36] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

[San Francisco] : Arion Press

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 2004.

Notes:

Publisher's name appears before place of publication in imprint.

"Limited to five hundred copies for sale. The book was designed by Andrew Hoyem and produced by the Arion Press with the assistance of Gerald Reddan, Blake Riley, Lewis Mitchell, Peter Stoelzl, Chris Chen, Kenneth Howard, and Flannery Bateman, with Glenn Todd as editor. The type, Kennerley, in Monotype and hand composition, was printed by letterpress on Legion Letterpress paper. The photographic illustrations were printed by offset lithography on Lustro Dull Coat paper by Biss Printing, Inc. The binding is sewn, with cloth over boards. The decorations on the cover were drawn by Valenti Angelo for the Colt Press edition of The wife of Martin Guerre by Janet Lewis, 1941. The pressmark above was cut by Mallette Dean."--Colophon.

"A checklist of the Colt Press": Pages [210]-213.

Binding: quarter light brown cloth over tan cloth; title and decorations in brown on left board; title, author's name, and publisher's initials stamped in brown on spine.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C 1256 ARO") 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 laid in publisher's prospectus for this edition, broadside with color illustration of the Colt Press Epicure series box set, and postcard invitation to a meeting with the author of this work at The Book Club of California on 15 December 2003.

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 217

Kurutz, Gary F. The Book Club of California at one hundred, page 59

OCLC:

55009083