Tanka : poems in exile / Jun Fujita.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fujita, Jun, 1888-1963, author.

Contributor:

Ransom, Will, 1878-1955, printer.

Garamond, Claude, -1561, type designer.

Covici-McGee Co., publisher.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Waka--20th century.

Waka.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printers' devices (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Garamond.

Case bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Poems.

Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Fujita, Jun, 1888-1963 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

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

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

Physical Description:

[2], 61, [1] pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Manufacture:

Chicago, U.S.A. : Printed by Will Ransom ..., September 1923.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Covici-McGee Co., 1923.

Notes:

"This first edition of Tanka : poems in exile is limited to three hundred and sixty-five copies, of which this is number [blank]"--Verso of title leaf.

"Printed by Will Ransom: maker of books at his private press 14 West Washington Street Chicago, U.S.A. in the month of September 1923"--Colophon.

Printer's device at colophon.

"Sq 8vo, Garamond. 365 San Marco, boards"--Ransom.

Deckled edges, untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 345.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "For Burton Rasoce, Sincere critic; friend of the arts; with perennial regard. Jun Fujita".

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 84 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 365 copies. See verso of title leaf.

Cited in:

Ransom, W. Private presses and their books, 13

OCLC:

2457733