Some fond remembrances of a boy printer at the Castle Press / by Vance Gerry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerry, Vance, author.

Contributor:

Weather Bird Press, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gerry, Vance--Biography.

Gerry, Vance.

Castle Press.

Printers--California.

Printers.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon.

Slipcases (Binding)

Biographies.

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[16], 11, [5] pages : 1 color illustration ; 25 cm

Edition:

Second edition, with corrections and additions.

Other Title:

Boy printer at the Castle Press

Place of Publication:

South Laguna : The Weather Bird Press, 1970.

Notes:

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

Title in red and black.

Issued in slip case.

"Caslon type. Various bindings by the press. 80 copies printed ... The new version had a prologue and the addition of some corrections and some more errors as well. Printed from Linotype on a Miehle Vertical press."--Gerry.

Local Notes:

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has manuscript note ("c 929 TO") 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: slip case retained.

Cited in:

Gerry, Vance. Twenty-five years of the Weather Bird Press, 12

OCLC:

8126686