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The mending of a continent / by Robin Lampson ; commemorating the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Lampson, Robin, 1900-1978, author.
Contributor:
Bentley, Ellen, printer, book designer, compositor.
Bentley, Wilder, 1900-1989, printer, book designer, compositor.
Archetype Press, publisher, printer.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
The Archetype Press chapbooks ; no. 1.
The Archetype Press chapbooks ; no. 1
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.)--Poetry.
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland and San Francisco, Calif.).
Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.)--Poetry.
Golden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.).
California--San Francisco--Golden Gate Bridge.
California--San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Genre:
Poetry.
Authors' autographs (Provenance)
Private press books (Printing)
Penn Provenance:
Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Lampson, Robin, 1900-1978 (autograph, January 15, 1937) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Edgerton, Robert (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Physical Description:
[4] pages on double leaves ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Berkeley, Calif. : The Archetype Press, 1937.
Notes:
Cover title.
"A limited and singular edition of 500 copies numbered and signed by the author ... Designed, hand set, & printed on a hand press by Wilder and Ellen Bentley ..."--Colophon.
"Reprinted, by permission, from Scribner's Magazine."--Colophon.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean- François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
Vilain-Wieck Collection has copy 115.
Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has inscription: "To Robert Edgerton with the Author's compliments and best wishes for the New Year-- Berkeley, 15 January 1937."
OCLC:
9628224

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