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The world above : a duologue / by Martha Foote Crow.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crow, Martha Foote, 1854-1924, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imaginary places--Fiction.
- Imaginary places.
- Imaginary societies--Fiction.
- Imaginary societies.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Handmade papers (Paper)
- Japan vellum (Paper)
- Unopened edges (Paper)
- Music types.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Dust jackets (Binding)
- Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
- Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding)
- Plays.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 37, [1] pages : music ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The Blue Sky Press, [1905]
- Notes:
- Page [38] is blank.
- "Copyright, 1905"--Title page verso.
- "Of this first edition of The world above there have been printed five hundred copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper and twenty-five copies on Japan vellum, of which this is number [blank]"--Title page verso.
- Title-page with decorative border; text printed in red and black.
- Bound in olive brown linen-grain cloth; front board stamped in gold and white with a symmetrical, Celtic knotwork-inspired design.
- Not in Ransom.
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 4 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 500 copies. See colophon.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: many leaves unopened; housed in clear dust jacket.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: front free endpaper detached.
- Cited in:
- Minsky, R. Amer. decorated publishers' bindings, v. 3, p. 43
- OCLC:
- 3365100
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