A bookseller reminisces / by Roy Vernon Sowers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sowers, Roy Vernon, 1897- author.

Contributor:

Simpson, Edmund E., printer.

Blackwood Press, publisher.

Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, associated name.

Zamorano Club, associated name.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sowers, Roy Vernon, 1897-.

Sowers, Roy Vernon.

Booksellers and bookselling--California--20th century--History.

Booksellers and bookselling.

California.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

History.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bembo.

Mohawk Letterpress (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[10] pages ; 25 cm

Manufacture:

Placerville, Calif. : Edmund E. Simpson

Place of Publication:

Placerville, Calif. : The Blackwood Press, 1988

Notes:

"This essay ... originally appeared in the Quarterly News-Letter of the Book Club of California, Vol. XXXII, No. Two, for Spring, 1967"--Page 9

Printer's name and location from colophon.

Colophon: "About 200 copies printed at the Blackwood Press of which 125 copies are for members of the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles and of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco, meeting in joint biennial session in San Francisco, October 1 & 2, 1988. Dr. Edmund E. Simpson, printer, 6206 Homestead Drive, Placerville, California 95667. Press: Old Series C & P 10 x 15, made in 1910. Type: All hand set Bembo, with text in 14 pt roman. Paper: Mohawk Letterpress 80 wt. Ink: Van Son Black No. 10850."

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.

OCLC:

27109835