"I love to talk about myself" : & other verses concerning God & man & me / by Harriet Levy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levy, Harriet Lane, author.

Contributor:

White, Elihu, 1773-1836, type designer.

Grabhorn Press, publisher, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Printing in multiple colors (Printing)

Limitation statements (Publishing)

Deckled edges (Paper)

Machine-made papers (Paper)

Wove papers (Paper)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Original Old Style Italic.

Case bindings (Binding)

Untrimmed edges (Binding)

Poems.

Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Levy, Harriet Lane (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Strauss, Sarah Ehrman, 1887-1961 (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Strauss, Lawrence Hollub, 1882-1954 (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[4], 96 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

[San Francisco] : The Grabhorn Press, 1947.

Notes:

"This edition consists of five hundred copies printed at The Grabhorn Press San Francisco February 1947"--Colophon.

Title and colophon in red and black. Deckled edges, untrimmed. Green boards with dark green repeating pattern (title ornament).

"Type: Orig. Old Style Italic. Stock: machine made white wove"--Bookbinding and book production, volume 47 (1948), page 89, number 20.

Binding: quarter tan linen over green boards decorated with dark green repeating pattern (title ornament). Paper spine label printed with title, author's surname, and figure of an arched-back cat. Deckled edges; fore- and tail edges untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy inscribed by the author to "Sallie and Laurence Strauss" [that is, Sarah Tremain Strauss (née Ehrman; 1887-1961) and Lawrence Hollub Strauss (1882-1954)] on 14 March 1948 on blank leaf following front free endpaper.

OCLC:

4276041