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Privately printed. "Privately printed in the Pueblo of Los Angeles, California, 1934." Original publisher's light beige paper wrappers with staple binding. Letter of errata by the author laid in. 7" x 9 1/2." Twenty-nine pages, complete. One black-and-white, tipped-in frontispiece showing "The Old Ames Press," complete. Pages and covers are clean and intact overall. Binding is tight. Offsetting from the frontispiece on title page. Light rubbing to front and back. Some wrinkling to corners of front cover. A few small stains to front cover. A Very Good copy. The errata notes misprinted and omitted lines in the text. Front colophon: "Of this tale of the three old printing presses of California, two hundred and fifty copies have been printed for private distribution by Elmer R. King, Mike Ferry and Carl I. Wheat, in the month of June, 1934. Of these one hundred copies have been reserved by Mr. Wheat for his fellow members of the Zamorano Club of Los Angeles and the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco.". Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Soft cover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Wheat, Carl I : Pioneers: The Engaging Tale of Three Early California Printing Presses and Their Strange Adventures. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including incunabula, atlases, livres illustrées, used books and out-of-print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |