Tales from a Beekman Hill Library, and other news stories on tunes, travels, tribulations, and trenchering. / Charles Honce. Drawings by Joe Cunningham and Milt Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Honce, Charles, 1895-1975.

Contributor:

Cunningham, Joe.

Morris, Milt.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Simpson, A. Carson, donor.

Rare Books Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Genre:

Essays.

Authors' autographs.

Limitation statements.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

125 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Mount Vernon, New York : Uttered be S. A. Jacobs at the Golden Eagle Press, 1952.

Notes:

With half-title.

"Emmanuella declared this book to be published and its edition limited to 100 copies for friends. It is therefore a gift from her hands. The paper is Basingwerk Parchment, the type Linotype Typography Caledonia designed by William Addison Dwiggins, and the format by Samuel Aiwaz Jacobs, printed by him at Christmas time at his Golden Eagle Press, Mount Vernon, a suburb of New York."

Gray-green boards lettered in gilt on spine. Light green endpapers. Top edge stained green.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has unopened leaves.

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 20 signed by Emmanuella and Charles Honce.

Athenaeum copy: "Limited to 100 copies." No. 82. Signed by the author.

Athenaeum copy: Gift: A. Carson Simpson.

OCLC:

5705018