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The valley of the moon : ... the sixty-first Grove Play ... presented by the members of the Bohemian Club of San Francisco in the Bohemian Grove, Somona [sic] County, California, Saturday night, July 30, 1966 / Ralph Moody, author ; Raymond W. Hackett, composer ; J. Fenton McKenna, director.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Grabhorn Press 86
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hackett, Raymond W., composer.
- Moody, Ralph, 1898-1982, author.
- Series:
- Grove play ; 61.
- Standardized Title:
- Valley of the moon. Libretto
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musicals--Librettos.
- Musicals.
- Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe, 1808-1890--Drama.
- Vallejo, Mariano Guadalupe.
- California--History--Drama.
- California.
- Sonoma Valley (Calif.)--History--Drama.
- Sonoma Valley (Calif.).
- California--Sonoma Valley.
- Genre:
- Librettos.
- History.
- Drama.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Baskerville.
- Decorated paper bindings (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [6], 47, [6] pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Manufacture:
- [San Francisco] : The Grabhorn Press.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : The Bohemian Club, [1966]
- Notes:
- Libretto.
- "Sonoma County" is misspelled "Somona County" on title leaf.
- "This book was designed and printed by The Grabhorn Press providing one copy for each member of The Bohemian Club [i.e. 2250 copies]. The type face is Baskerville ... The illustrations were taken from the book 'California: A history of upper and lower California' printed in London in 1839 ... The paper is Colophin Text. The design on the cover paper was actually printed from a piece of Spanish velvet."--Colophon.
- "Edwin Grabhorn's last book. Part of the printing was done by Grabhorn/Hoyem"--Heller.
- 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.
- Cited in:
- Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 654
- OCLC:
- 17548614
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