AN ESSAY BY GARY F. KURUTZ ON A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CALIFORNIA AND THE PACIFIC WEST, 1510-1906 BY ROBERT E. COWAN, With an Orignal Leaf from the Club's 1914 First Edition
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, limited to 390 copies designed by Lewis Allen of The Allen Press. "This book celebrates Cowan's pioneering California bibliography published in 1914. As the inaugural book in The Book Club of California's publication program, this landmark bibliography established many of the procedures and traditions that have guided the Club's publication program over the last seven decades. The history of Cowan's 1914 edition printed by Taylor, Nash, and Taylor and his enlarged 1933 edition printed by John Henry Nash is traced in an essay by Gary F. Kurutz. Each copy is accompanied by a leaf from the original 1914 edition." In this case, the leaf (p.251-252) features, among other titles, Daniel B. Wood's Sixteen Months at the Gold Diggings (1851), a Zamorano 80 title. Quarto. Original paper-covered boards over a linen spine, with a printed paper title label inset on the front. A fine copy in a mylar dust wrapper. Fine. Item #66344
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