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The first emperor = Qin Shihuang-Di / Sonny Bing Gee, playwright ; Herbert A. Goodrich, composer ; J.H. O'Rielly, III, director.

LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1711
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Goodrich, Herbert A., composer.
Contributor:
Gee, Sonny Bing, librettist.
O'Rielly, J. H., director.
Hoyem, Andrew, book designer, printer.
Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Calif.), publisher.
Arion Press, printer.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Grove play ; 88.
Standardized Title:
First emperor. Libretto
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Qin shi huang, Emperor of China, 259 B.C.-210 B.C--Drama.
Qin shi huang.
Qin shi huang, Emperor of China, 259 B.C.-210 B.C.
Musicals--Librettos.
Musicals.
Genre:
Drama.
Private press books (Printing)
Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Cochin.
Mohawk Letterpress Text (Paper).
Penn Provenance:
Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xviii, [1], 77 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Manufacture:
San Francisco : Arion Press
Other Title:
Qin Shihuang-Di
Place of Publication:
San Francisco : Bohemian Club of San Francisco, 1993.
Notes:
"The eighty-eighth Grove play presented July 30, 1993."
Illustrations by Primo Angeli.
Includes printed cast list.
"Designed by Andrew Hoyem and produced by the Arion Press in San Francisco in an edition of 2,700 copies, printed on Mohawk Letterpress Text from Cochin type, composed in Monotype by M & H Type, and from photo-polymer plates for the calligraphy and illustrations, and handsewn in oriental style"--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.
OCLC:
30011817

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