My first thirty years / Gertrude Beasley ; woodcuts by Claire Van Vliet, afterword by Larry McMurtry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beasley, Gertrude, 1892-1955, author.

McMurtry, Larry, author of afterward.

Contributor:

Van Vliet, Claire, book designer, illustrator, woodcutter.

Book Club of Texas, publisher.

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

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., associated name, donor.

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- associated name, donor.

Wieck, Roger S., associated name, donor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beasley, Gertrude, 1892-1955.

Beasley, Gertrude.

Teachers--Texas--Biography.

Teachers.

Texas.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

241, [1] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Austin, Tex. : Book Club of Texas, 1989.

Notes:

Autobiographical.

"Five hundred copies of My First Thirty Years were set in Monotype Century Schoolbook and printed letterpress on recycled Speckletone paper at the press of W. Thomas Taylor in Austin, Texas. The binding was executed by BookLab. The book was designed by Claire Van Vliet and the woodcuts were printed from the originals blocks. Afterword copyright 1989 by Larry McMurtry. Special contents copyright 1989 by the Book Club of Texas."

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has "How to open this book" laid in.

Schimmel 8157: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Caroline F. Schimmel bookplate on jacket. Sheet with instructions for "How to open this book" laid in. Publisher's prospectus laid in. Review by H.L. Mencken, reprinted at the press of W. Thomas Taylor as a keepsake for the Book Club of Texas, 1989 ([8] pages ; 24 cm) laid in.

OCLC:

21416168