1 option
Pepe / by James Hopper ; with a foreword by the author ; illustrations by Paul Landacre.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Ward Ritchie 1
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hopper, James, 1876-1956, author.
- Series:
- Contemporary California short stories ; no. 5.
- Contemporary California short stories ; number five
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- California--Fiction.
- California.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Printed wrappers (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Short stories.
- Bookplates (Provenance)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Mittelberg, Walter Carl, 1904-1980 (bookplate) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 16 pages ; 24 cm
- Manufacture:
- Los Angeles : The Ward Ritchie Press.
- Place of Publication:
- [San Francisco] : Published for its members by The Book Club of California, 1937.
- Notes:
- "Pepe is the fifth of a series of six short stories by contemporary California authors, to be distributed bi-monthly during 1937 to members of The Book Club of California, 110 Sutter Street, San Francisco. It has been designed and printed, in an edition of 600 copies, by The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles."--Verso of title leaf.
- Title in black and red; deckled edges, untrimmed. Issued in printed paper wrappers.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has illustrated bookplate ("EX LIBRIS Walter Carl Mittelberg") of Walter Carl Mittelberg (1904-1980) on inside front wrapper.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: leaves unopened at head edge.
- Cited in:
- Ritchie, W. The Ward Ritchie Press and Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, page 76
- OCLC:
- 4444213
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.