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A sojourn with royalty : and other sketches / by "Old Block" (Alonzo Delano) ; collected and edited by G. Ezra Dane ; foreword by Edmund G. Kinyon ; illustrated by Charles Lindstrom.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Grabhorn Press 31
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delano, Alonzo, 1806-1874, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Miscellanea.
- American literature.
- Genre:
- Trivia and miscellanea.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Machine-made papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Caslon Monotype.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Publishers’ advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 preliminary leaves [1]-96 pages, 2 leaves color illustrations 21 cm
- Manufacture:
- [San Francisco] : Printed by The Grabhorn Press, in September 1936.
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco] : George Fields of San Francisco, 1936.
- Contents:
- A sojourn with royalty, or, A claim to distinction
- The hungry convention at Grass Valley
- Duff, or, The French cook : a reminiscence
- A spiritual communication on quartz
- Old Block resurrected, or, A voice from below
- Feet : a fancy sketch
- Reminiscences of John Phoenix, esq., the veritable "squibob."
- Notes:
- "Five hundred copies printed by The Grabhorn Press in September 1936"--Colophon.
- Third line of title printed in black and pink; seven initials in sepia; eight headpieces and title illustration in color. Type Centaur monotype; paper machine made. Bound in orange pictorial boards; tan cloth back; orange label printed in brown on back."--Heller.
- Deckled edges, untrimmed.
- 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.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has publisher's prospectus (with manuscript note "Ordered" in pencil) for this edition laid in.
- Cited in:
- Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 255
- OCLC:
- 1687585
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