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Second reading : selections from the Quarterly news-letter, 1933-1963 / compiled, with a foreword, by Oscar Lewis.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Book Club of California 99
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Book Club of California. Quarterly newsletter, bibliographic antecedent.
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 119.
- Publication 119 of The Book Club of California
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bibliography--Societies, etc.
- Bibliography.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Machine-made papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bembo.
- 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:
- x, [8], 170 pages, [3] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 27 cm
- Manufacture:
- Los Angeles : Printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1965.
- Contents:
- The origin of California's first printing press / by George L. Harding
- San Francisco in fiction / by Anne M. Farrell
- Amateur journalism in California [Unsigned]
- County histories / by Helen Putnam Van Sicklen
- Literary weeklies of early California / by Franklin Walker
- Books on western gunmen / by Guy J. Giffen
- Notes on the amateur handpress / by Wilder Bentley
- The Grabhorns / by Kevin Wallace
- John Henry Nash : 1871-1947 / by Oscar Lewis
- Literary echoes in California place names / by Erwin G. Gudde
- Latter-day handpress / by William Everson
- Reveries of a San Francisco antiquarian bookman / by Harold C Holmes
- A California bookman / by John Howell
- An interview with William McCevitt, LL.M. / by Robert De Roos
- My San Francisco improbabilities / by Gelett Burgess
- Old California cook books / by Philip S. Brown
- Stevenson in his letters / by Bradforth A. Booth
- Search and research : the librarian and the scholar / by James D. Hart
- Afternoon of a poet / by David Magee
- The prospect before us / by Lawrence Clark Powell.
- Notes:
- "425 copies printed by Saul & Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press, Los Angeles"--Verso of title leaf.
- "Title in yellow and black. Thirteen reproductions, some in color, including facsimiles, some inserted, some tipped on, two [that is, three] insertions not included in pagination. Type Bembo monotype. Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.
- Binding: quarter linen over blue paper boards; floriate decoration in color on left board; beige spine label printed with title in red.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C012 EN") 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 paper slip with bookseller's printed description (of this copy?) with manuscript note ("1985") in pencil 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 119
- Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, page 50
- OCLC:
- 3047058
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