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A southland Bohemia : the Arroyo Seco colony as the century begins / by Ward Ritchie.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Weather Bird 127
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ritchie, Ward, 1905-1996, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Book collectors--California--Los Angeles County--Biography.
- Book collectors.
- Book collecting--California--Los Angeles County.
- Book collecting.
- Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Social life and customs.
- Los Angeles County (Calif.).
- Seco, Arroyo (Los Angeles County, Calif.).
- Manners and customs.
- California--Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County).
- California--Los Angeles County.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Dust jackets (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Local histories.
- Autographs (Provenance)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 127 & 133))
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 127 & 133))
- Gerry, Vance (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 133))
- Physical Description:
- [8], 7-24, [5] pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pasadena : Published by Vance Gerry, 1996.
- Notes:
- Publisher's name appears before place of publication in imprint.
- "A Weather Bird Press book".
- "Printed electrostatically Digital typesetting by Pall Bohne and Binding by Mariana Blau"--Colophon.
- "The text printed here was given as a talk by Ward Ritchie and Gloria Stuart at the Southwest Museum Library on October 1, 1995 ..."--Introduction.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies (Weather Bird 127 and Weather Bird 133) presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 127) has manuscript notes ("C1220 AK" and ""60797 (Weather Bird Press)") on blank leaf preceding half-title leaf.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 127) bound in gray paper wrappers; paper label printed with title and author's name on front wrapper.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 133) has manuscript note ("ONE OF A FEW IN SPECIAL BINDING") in pencil on blank leaf preceding title leaf; manuscript note ("C1244 TA") in pencil on blank leaf preceding title leaf.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 133) signed by the publisher in pencil. See colophon.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 133) bound in quarter red cloth over patterned paper boards; red-bordered printed paper label with title and author's name on left board; dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 35754778
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