Collector's choice : an exhibit of representative examples from the collections of members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco held in the Palace of the Legion of Honor on the occasion of the joint meeting of the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles & Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, September 17-18, 1960 / compiled by Kenneth Carpenter ; foreword by Oscar Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carpenter, Kenneth, compiler.

Contributor:

Lewis, Oscar, 1893-1992, writer of foreword.

Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, host institution.

Grabhorn Press, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roxburghe Club of San Francisco--Exhibitions.

Roxburghe Club of San Francisco.

Books--History--Exhibitions.

Books.

Book collecting--California--San Francisco--Exhibitions.

Book collecting.

California--San Francisco.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Printed wrappers (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Exhibition catalogs.

History.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

48, [2] pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco] : Printed at the Grabhorn Press, [1960]

Notes:

"150 copies printed for a group of members of the Roxburghe Club"--Heller.

"This keepsake presented by Arthur L. Bloomfield [and 9 others]"--Colophon.

Title and text printed in red and black.

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 bound in paper wrappers printed in red and black; deckled edges, untrimmed.

Cited in:

Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 617

OCLC:

2153247