Peter Whiffle : his life and works / Carl Van Vechten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., publisher.

Vail-Ballou Press, printer.

Plimpton Press, binder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century.

American fiction.

Bookbinding--United States--History--20th century--Specimens.

Bookbinding.

Publishers' paper bindings (Binding)--United States--1922.

History.

United States.

Genre:

Specimens.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 preliminary leaves, 247 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1922.

Notes:

Verso of t.p.: Published, April, 1922.

Verso of t.p.: Set up and printed by The Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N.Y. Paper furnished by W.F. Etherington & Co., New York, N.Y. Bound by The Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass.

"Books by Carl Van Vechten," page [2] at front.

Local Notes:

Publisher's binding: Light gray linen cloth quarter binding with tissue paper over boards. Geometrically stylized paper label on spine, printed in black. Tissue paper stained in bright green around the pattern of rows of white egg-like shapes speckled in dark green and interspersed with rows of smaller, diamond-like white shapes.

Cited in:

Van Vechten Cunningham 14

Van Vechten Kellner A12

Other Format:

Online version: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. Peter Whiffle.

OCLC:

412963