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The Grabhorn Press : a biography / by Roby Wentz.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Grace Hoper 9
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wentz, Roby, author.
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 168.
- Publications / Book Club of California ; no. 168
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grabhorn Press.
- San Francisco (Calif.)--Imprints.
- San Francisco (Calif.).
- California--San Francisco.
- Genre:
- bibliographies.
- Bibliographies.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [10], 151, [1] pages, [20] pages of plates, [1] folded page of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Manufacture:
- Aptos, California : Grace Hoper Press
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : Book Club of California, 1981.
- Summary:
- History of the Grabhorns, the brothers Robert and Edwin, and Jane, Robert's wife, and their press. The Grabhorns were one of the small group of fine printers in the San Francisco area. They worked for half a century.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "750 copies printed at The Grace Hoper Press in Aptos, California. The initials are by Mallette Dean. Publication number 168 of The Book Club of California. Felicia Rice was a valued member of the Press during the production of this work. Oscar Lewis and Albert Sperisen selected and arranged the illustrations. Susan Riggs edited the manuscript and compiled the index"--Colophon.
- 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 dustjacket.
- OCLC:
- 8122991
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