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Winged mail : Avalon to Bunker Hill, 1894-1898 : a Roxburghe-Zamorano Club keepsake about Santa Catalina Island / by Anna Marie Hager.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Hager, Anna Marie, author.
Contributor:
Hoffman, Richard J., book designer, printer.
Blau, Bela, binder.
Gerry, Vance, cover designer.
Zamorano Club, publisher.
Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, publisher.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Postal service--California--Santa Catalina Island.
Postal service.
Pigeon post--California--Santa Catalina Island.
Pigeon post.
California--Santa Catalina Island.
Genre:
Private press books (Printing)
Printed wrappers (Binding)
Keepsakes.
Local histories.
Physical Description:
[16] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
[San Francisco] : Roxburghe Club ; [Los Angeles] : Zamorano Club, [1986]
Summary:
The Zahn brothers established a carrier pigeon message service from Santa Catalina Island to Los Angeles in 1894. It was a private service that lasted until a radio telegraph station was established on the island in 1902.
Notes:
"Presented to the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs October, 1986"--Page [15].
"Printed by Richard J. Hoffman. Cover hot-stamped by Bela Blau. Cover drawing by Vance Gerry"--Colophon.
"This keepsake contains a very brief account from Winged mail: Avalon to Bunker Hill, 1894-1898, by Anna Marie Hager. Published by Dawson's Book Shop as volume 16 of their Los Angeles Miscellany Series, designed and printed by Richard J. Hoffman."--Introduction.
Local Notes:
Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("C1358 AI") in pencil on blank leaf preceding title leaf.
Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.
OCLC:
18427738

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