For loving a book : further news adventures among bins and bibliophiles / by Charles Honce ; with an overture by H. L. Mencken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Honce, Charles, 1895-1975.

Contributor:

Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.

Jacobs, S. A. (Samuel Alvarez)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American wit and humor.

Holmes, Sherlock.

Baker Street Irregulars (Organization : U.S.).

Penn Provenance:

Rascoe, Hazel (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

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

Honce, Emmanuella (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Honce, Charles, 1895-1975 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxiv, 114 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Mount Vernon [N.Y] : Golden Eagle Press, 1945.

Notes:

"Designed and Printed by S. A. Jacobs."

"Limited to one hundred and eleven copies on Winterbourne mould-made paper. It is printed in Alicia types, at the Golden Eagle Press, Mount Vernon, New York, by S. A. Jacobs, the Printer to the Press."--Colophon.

Brown paper boards lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt stained; other edges untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has no copy number.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to Hazel & Burton Rascoe by Emmanuella & Charles Honce. Sept. 6, 1947.

Culture Class Collection copy has top portion of spine laid in.

Related Work:

Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. Why I am not a book collector. 1945.

OCLC:

1889239