An uncensored anthology / written by divers hands ; decorated by Carl Cobbledick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Cobbledick, Carl, illustrator.

Peter Pauper Press, publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

American poetry.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Weiss.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

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

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

Physical Description:

60 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Mount Vernon [N.Y.] : Peter Pauper Press, 1939.

Contents:

Reward of virtue.

Little Willie.

The ladies.

Ballad of the twin buttes.

The old backhouse.

The ruined maid.

Ballad of Mae West's bust.

The rehearsal.

Frankie and Johnnie.

Titillations: an ode.

Victoria.

Romance of Rex.

Notes:

"Copyright 1939 Peter Pauper Press"--verso of title page.

Colophon: Set in Weiss types and printed on specially-made Peter Pauper paper.

Bound in dark blue paper with white repeat decoration; housed in a red slipcase with paper label.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy imperfect: slipcase wanting.

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy 2 has plain blue boards with paper label attributing work to divers gay hands and housed in plain red slipcase.

Cited in:

Bennet, P.A. Recalling Peter, 1964, p. 55.

Donnelly & Dobkin, 574 (page 159)

OCLC:

3351242