Upper California / by Heinrich Künzel ; translated from the German by Anthony and Max Knight ; with an introduction by Carroll D. Hall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Künzel, Heinrich, 1810-1873, author.

Hall, Carroll D. (Carroll Douglas), 1902- author of introduction.

Contributor:

Knight, Anthony, translator.

Knight, Max, translator.

Hall, Carroll D. (Carroll Douglas), 1902- writer of introduction.

Dean, Mallette, 1907-1975, printer, illustrator.

Beard, James E., printer.

Mackenzie & Harris, typographer.

Herdell & Beard, lithographer.

Howell-North, binder.

Book Club of California, publisher.

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

Series:

Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 125.

[Publication] ; [number 125]

Standardized Title:

Obercalifornien. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

California--Description and travel.

California.

Travel.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Machine-made papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Van Dijck.

Case bindings (Binding)

Dust jackets (Binding)

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[10], 9-61, [1] pages : color illustrations, map (on lining papers), portrait ; 27 cm

Manufacture:

[Place of printing not identified] : Mallette Dean and James E. Beard

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : The Book Club of California, 1967.

Language Note:

English translation of: Obercalifornien.

Notes:

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

"450 copies of this book have been made by Mallette Dean and James E. Beard. The type is Monotype Van Dijck composed by Mackenzie & Harris, Inc. Woodcut decorations by Mallette Dean. Reproductions lithographed by Herdell & Beard. Bound by Howell-North."--Colophon.

"Title, divisional headings, page numbers and colophon in terra cotta and black, initial letters in terra cotta, ornamental headlines in green and terra cotta. Woodcuts in color by Mallette Dean. Plan and map reproduced from original editions. Endpaper reproductions of maps. Type Van Dijck monotype. Paper machine made."--Book Club of California.

Binding: full terra cotta cloth; title and woodcut illustration in color on label affixed to left board; yellow spine label printed with title; maps on endpapers; untrimmed fore- and tail edges.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript notes ("RO C1154" and "DEAN, MALLETTE, PRINTER 1/450") in pencil on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy in faded green paper dust jacket.

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 125

Lewis, Oscar. First 75 years the story of the Book Club of California, 1912-1987, page 50

OCLC:

434911