A free man's books / an address by Archibald MacLeish, delivered at the annual banquet of the American Booksellers Association ; together with a letter by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982, author.

Contributor:

Beilenson, Edna, 1909-1981, printer.

Beilenson, Peter, 1905-1962, printer.

Peter Pauper Press, publisher, printer.

Gotham Book Mart 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):

Books and reading--United States.

Books and reading.

United States.

Book industries and trade--United States.

Book industries and trade.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

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:

17 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mount Vernon, N.Y. : Peter Pauper Press, [1942].

Notes:

"Two hundred copies of this book, none of which is for sale, have been made by Peter and Edna Beilenson for friends of the Peter Pauper Press"--Colophon (200 copy issue).

"One thousand copies of this book were printed by Peter and Edna Beilenson of the Peter Pauper Press, and were bound by the H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company, for presentation to members of the American Booksellers Association. No copies for sale."--Colophon (1,000 copy issue).

1000 copy issue not in Donnelly & Dobkin.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 1 is from 200 copy issue, copy 2 is from 1,000 copy issue.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is one of the 200 copy issue.

Cited in:

Donnelly & Dobkin, 173 (page 48)

Other Format:

Online version: MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982. Free man's books.

OCLC:

1076193