The swimmer / John Cheever.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheever, John, author.

Contributor:

Baute, Nick, engraver.

Contre Coup Press, publisher, printer.

Campbell-Logan Bindery, binder.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swimming--Fiction.

Swimming.

Genre:

Fiction.

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bembo.

Frankfurt (paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Baute, Nick (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[6], 28, [4] pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Louisville : Contre Coup Press, 2011.

Notes:

"This book was set by hand in the Bembo typeface and printed on Frankfurt paper using a Vanderbook SP20 proof press. The book was bound by the Campbell-Logan Bindery. The illustration on the title page was designed and engraved on wood by Nick Baute and printed directly from the woodblock. There were 16 copies printed, each signed by Nick Baute."--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection has print out of an e-mail exchange between Timothy Hawley (the Publisher) and Vilain laid in.

OCLC:

783628508