Mercury : a short story / by Jonis Agee ; drawings by Robert Ferguson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agee, Jonas, author..

Contributor:

Kornblum, Allan, 1949-2014, printer, book designer.

Sayre, Constance, binder.

Ferguson, Robert, illustrator.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Toothpaste Press, publisher.

Black Oak Bindery, binder.

Palm Press (Mass.), compositor.

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

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Weiss Linotype.

Frankfurt White (Paper).

Strathmore Brigadoon (Paper).

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

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

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

Physical Description:

20 pages : illustrations ; 19 x 20 cm

Place of Publication:

West Branch, Iowa : Toothpaste Press, 1981.

Notes:

"Mercury was previously published in Glitch"--Title page verso.

"Set in Weiss linotype by Concord Press. Designed and printed by Allan Kornblum in an edition of 900 copies, on Frankfurt White. Of these, 50 copies were cased in cloth over boards by Constance Sayre at the Black Oak Bindery; 850 copies were handsewn into Strathmore Brigadoon wrappers"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

0915124505

091512453X

9780915124534

9780915124503

OCLC:

7463805