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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.
Contributor:
Dane, G. Ezra (George Ezra), 1904-1941, editor.
Kinyon, Edmund, writer of foreword.
Lindstrom, Charles, 1910- illustrator.
Fields, George, 1906-1980, publisher.
Grabhorn Press, printer.
Monotype Corporation, type designer.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
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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