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I know a place : three stories / by William Mills ; [illustrated by Margaret Agner].
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Nightowl 20
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS3563.I4234 I5 1976
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mills, William, 1935- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Manners and customs--Fiction.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Linocuts.
- fine press books.
- linocuts (prints)
- Linoleum block printing.
- Fiction.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Joanna Roman.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Palatino.
- Ragston (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Nightowl 20, 24)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Nightowl 20, 24)
- Physical Description:
- [8], 48, [4] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Press of the Nightowl, [1976].
- Contents:
- To pass him out.
- A marquis.
- The commuters.
- Notes:
- "Designed and printed by Dwight Agner at The Press of the Nightowl ... The text was set by hand in Joanna Roman, a type designed by Eric Gill. Palatino Semibold, designed by Hermann Zapf, was used for the story titles, with ornaments from the Primula series designed by Imre Reiner. The illustrations were cut in linoleum by Margaret Agner and printed directly from the blocks ... The regular edition consists of approximately 275 copies printed on eighty pound Ragston paper. They have been bound in Holliston Kingston natural finish cloth by Robert Burlen & Son, Inc. ... An additional 30 copies were printed on damp Hayle handmade paper, with story dividers on Ingres Antique. These were bound by hand with leather edges and spine label, by Fritz and Trudi Eberhardt ... The copies of this special edition are numbered from 1 to 30, and signed by the author"--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Nightowl 24: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck. "With compliments, The Press of the Nightowl" card and publisher's prospectus with review by Lewis R. Simpson laid in. Regular edition.
- Nightowl 20: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck. Regular edition.
- ISBN:
- 0912960086
- 9780912960081
- OCLC:
- 3109267
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