City child : poems / by Selma Robinson ; with decorations by Rockwell Kent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Selma, author.

Contributor:

Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971, illustrator.

Franck, Peter, bookbinder.

Colophon Ltd., publisher.

Walpole Printing Office, printer.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Private press books (Printing)

Shogun Japanese (Paper)

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Kent, Rockwell, 1882-1971 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Robinson, Selma (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

64 pages : illustrations, plates ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

New Rochelle : Walpole Printing Office.

Place of Publication:

New York : Colophon Ltd., 1931.

Notes:

"Copyright, 1931, by Selma Robinson. This first edition is printed by arrangement with Farrar & Rinehart, Inc."--verso of title page.

"This book, one of three hundred copies each signed by the author and by the artist exclusively for subscribers to the Colophon, a book-collectors' quarterly, was printed on Shogun Japanese paper at the Walpole Printing Office in New Rochelle, and bound by Peter Franck ... This copy being number --. [Signed] Selma Robinson. Rockwell Kent his mark [red heart].

In slipcase.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 206.

Cited in:

Donnelly & Dobkin, A279 (page 239)

OCLC:

890952