Oscar Weil, Letters and Papers
1923 · San Francisco
by Weil, Oscar
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1923 One of 400 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. A Memoir of the author by Flora J. Arnstein, Albert I. Elkus and Stewart W. Young. Words spoken at the funeral of the author by Stewart W. Young. Quarto. 11½x7¾ inches. [18], 3-119, [7] pp. Photographic frontis portrait within gold rules by Dorothea Lange from a painting by Olga M. Ackerman. Title design by H. von Schmidt. Black cloth-backed brown cloth, gilt-lettered red paper labels on cover and spine. Spine label faded, photographic portrait with heavy silvering (as usual), one-inch dent to top rear edge, else a fine copy. Oscar Weil (1839-1921) was a well-known musicologist who spent much of his life in San Francisco. Includes his contributions to "The Argonaut," commentaries for programs at the Greek Theater of the University of California, plus a bibliography of his compositions. One of the Fifty Books of the Year. We have seen any number of copies of this title; the frontis photo is always "silvered".. (Inventory #: 8289)