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L.A. type : a concise history of Los Angeles Type Founders, Inc. / compiled by Vance Gerry from a University of California, Los Angeles Oral History Program interview with Don Winter.
LIBRA Vilain-Wieck Collection Weather Bird 102
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gerry, Vance, compiler.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Winter, Don.
- Los Angeles Type & Rule Co--History.
- Los Angeles Type & Rule Co.
- Los Angeles Type Founders--History.
- Los Angeles Type Founders.
- Type and type-founding.
- Printing.
- Genre:
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Dust jackets (Binding)
- 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:
- 42 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations (some color), color portrait ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Los Angeles type
- Place of Publication:
- Pasadena : Printed & published by The Weather Bird Press, 2000.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Walter Gebhard (portrait)
- Part one
- Part two
- Catalog illustrations
- Linotype / intertype faces
- Ludlow faces
- Competitor's catalog illustrations
- Rule broadside (fold out)
- Part three
- Machines
- Matrices.
- Notes:
- Place of publication appears after publisher's name in imprint.
- "100 copies printed. Color printing by The Parker Press. Bound by Mariana Blau"--Colophon.
- Four pages of illustrative plates included in pagination.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript notes ("C1132 ATK" and "1/100") in pencil on front free endpaper.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 44950809
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