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Printing as a performing art / edited by Ruth Teiser & Catherine Harroun.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Book Club of California 115
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Teiser, Ruth, editor.
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 134.
- Publication number 134 of The Book Club of California
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Private presses--California--San Francisco--History.
- Private presses.
- Printing--California--San Francisco--History.
- Printing.
- Printers--United States--Interviews.
- Printers.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Intellectual life.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- Intellectual life.
- California--San Francisco.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Interviews.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Machine-made papers (Paper)
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Goudy Modern.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Wilhelm Klingspor Schrift.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 145 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Manufacture:
- Fairfax, Marin County, California : Printed by Arlen & Clare Philpott
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1970.
- Contents:
- Edwin Grabhorn
- Robert Grabhorn
- Lawton Kennedy
- Lewis & Dorothy Allen
- Jack Stauffacher
- William Everson
- Adrian Wilson
- Mallette Dean.
- Notes:
- "Selections from interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser for the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, with added introductory material"--Page [6].
- Publisher's name appears before place of publication in imprint.
- "This is Publication Number 134 of The Book Club of California. The text type is 12 point Goudy Modern designed by Frederic W. Goudy in 1918. The Monotype composition was executed by Mackenzie & Harris. The display type is 24 point Wilhelm Klingspor Schrift designed by Rudolph Koch between 1919 and 1923 and cast by Paul Hayden Duensing, Michigan. The paper is Curtis Stoneridge; the binding is by Filmer Brothers, Taylor & Taylor. Illustrations are by Peggy Conahan, San Francisco. 450 copies, designed by Arlen Philpott, were [letterpress] printed by Arlen & Clare Philpott at their press in Fairfax, Marin County, California."--Colophon.
- "Title, contents and colophon in red, gold and black, divisional headings in red. Line drawings in gold of tools of the trade by Peggy Conahan. Type Goudy Modern monotype. Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.
- Binding: full yellow cloth; title stamped in gold on spine.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C1378 TC") 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 two hundredth book http://www.bccbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BCCvol2-The-Two-Hundredth-Book.pdf number 134
- Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, page 51
- OCLC:
- 154578
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