The Luck of Roaring Camp
Boston, MA: Privately Printed, 1931. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 7.75 inches. Black spine and red boards (with minor wearing/scuff). Gold and black title label on front cover. vi, 21, [3] pages. RARE. This is the product of a project designed and executed at the Typographic Laboratory Boston, Massachusetts by Charles W. Johnson. "As Baskerville's types stimulated interest in good book printing in his day, so the excellent reproduction cut for machine composition will help to lead the modern printer to a better realization of the possibility for improvement today. this book is set in eleven point Linotype Baskerville, cut under the direction of George W. Jones, the eminent English printer. The former is somewhat different from Baskerville's books in order to harmonize with the subject and to illustrate what can be done with modern facilities--C. W. J. Boston, Massachusetts September 1931. Composition was by Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts. Presswork by the Taylor Press. Binding by Robert Burlen & Son, Boston. [Robert Burlen started the company around 1880 in Boston went out of business in the 1970's. The paper is Crown & Sceptre, a handmade laid paper imported from England by the Japan Paper Company. Luck of Roaring Camp was first published in the August 1868 issue of the Overland Monthly and helped push Harte to international prominence. Roaring Camp was a community that arose during the California Gold Rush of 1849. More