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The gods are athirst / by Anatole France ; the authorised translation from the French by Alfred Allinson ; with an introduction by André Maurois and illustrations by Jean Oberlé.

LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Heritage Club 43
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
France, Anatole, 1844-1924, author.
Contributor:
Allinson, A. R. (Alfred Richard), translator.
Oberlé, Jean, illustrator.
Meynell, Francis, 1891-1975, book designer.
Photogravure & Color Co., illustrator.
Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), printer.
George Macy Companies, Inc., copyright holder.
Arrow Press, colorist.
Heritage Press (New York, N.Y.), publisher.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
Standardized Title:
Dieuse ont soif. English
Language:
English
French
Subjects (All):
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Fiction.
France.
Genre:
Private press books (Printing)
Typefaces (Type Evidence) -- Cochin.
Penn Provenance:
Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xii, 205 pages, [15] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Manufacture:
Cambridge, Mass. : Riverside Press
Other Title:
Half title: Les Dieuse ont soif
Place of Publication:
New York : Heritage Press by arrangement with The Nonesuch Press, London, 1942.
Language Note:
In English: translated from French.
Notes:
"The special contents of this edition are copyright, 1942, by The Nonesuch Press for the George Macy Companies, Inc."--verso of title page.
Book designed by Francis Meynell. Type: Cochin. Printed by the Riverside Press of Cambridge, Massachusetts and the illustrations by the Photogravure and Color Company of New York. The colors by the Arrow Press of New York.--from Heritage Club monthly newsletter 'Sandglass' Number VI:21.
In slipcase.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014.
Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has newsletter of Heritage Club 'Sandglass' Number VI:21 laid in.
Cited in:
Ransom, Will. Selective check lists of print books, 62 (page 96)
OCLC:
1055010402

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