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An uncensored anthology / written by divers hands ; decorated by Carl Cobbledick.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Peter Pauper Press 51
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Baskerville.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copies)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copies)
- Physical Description:
- 66 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Mount Vernon [N.Y.] : Peter Pauper Press, 1939.
- Contents:
- Reward of virtue.
- Little Willie.
- The ladies.
- Ballad of the twin buttes.
- The old backhouse.
- The ruined maid.
- Ballad of Mae West's bust.
- The rehearsal.
- Frankie and Johnnie.
- Titillations: an ode.
- Victoria.
- Romance of Rex.
- Notes:
- "Copyright 1939 Peter Pauper Press"--verso of title page.
- Colophon: Sixteen hundred and fifty copies, set in Baskerville types, have been printed on Canson and Montgolfier Paper at the Walpole printing Office, mount Vernon.
- Cloth backed black boards in slipcase.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies purchased by the Penn Libraries in 2013.
- Cited in:
- Donnelly & Dobkin, 573 (page 159)
- OCLC:
- 2042455
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