Festivals in San Francisco / prepared by the Northern California Writers' Project, Work Projects Administration ; sponsored by International institute.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Northern California, issuing body.

Contributor:

Vinson, Pauline, illustrator.

Delkin, James Ladd, publisher.

Jones, George William, 1860-1942, type designer.

International Institute of San Francisco, sponsor.

Grabhorn Press, printer.

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

Series:

American guide series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Festivals--California--San Francisco.

Festivals.

California--San Francisco.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Machine-made papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Estienne linotype.

Case bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Calendars.

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[8], 67, [1] pages, [4] leaves of color plates : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Manufacture:

[San Francisco] : Printed at The Grabhorn Press, 1939.

Place of Publication:

[Stanford, California] : James Ladd Delkin, Stanford University, 1939.

Summary:

Includes feasts and celebrations of various nationalities in U.S. Arranged by month. For example, October includews: Pulaski Day (Polish), Columbus Day (Italian), Fiesta de la raza (Spanish), Madre del lune di porticello (Italian), Independence Day (Czechoslovakian), October-Fest (German) and Succoth (Jewish).

Notes:

"1000 copies printed at the Grabhorn press :: 1939"--Colophon.

"Printed in black and red. Printer's device (Q) in colophon. Colored frontispiece, three full-page colored drawings not included in pagination, and twelve colored headpieces by Pauline Vinson. Type Estienne linotype; paper machine made. Bound in orange boards with tan cloth back; drawing by Pauline Vinson on front cover; orange label printed in red on back."--Heller.

Deckled edges, untrimmed.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 66-67) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Cited in:

Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 318

OCLC:

3421376