The Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved / Hunter S. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thompson, Hunter S., author.

Contributor:

Blinn, Carol J., illustrator.

Hawley, Timothy T. (Timothy Tompkins), 1947- writer of afterword, printer.

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):

Kentucky Derby.

CHR 2009.

Genre:

Private press books (Printing)

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bembo.

Nideggen (paper).

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

[6], 28, [4] pages ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

The Derby City [Louisville, Kentucky] : Contre Coup Press, 2009.

Notes:

Afterword by Theophile Homard (pseudonym of Timothy Hawley).

Letterpress printed.

"This book was printed within a twenty-minute walk from the author's boyhood home and within a twenty-minute drive from Churchill Downs. The printer's favorite restaurant used to be the Fish-Meat Village (actual name Kingfish), but it was torn down and replaced with a Starbucks-- that figures. The text was taken from The Great Shark Hunt, 1979. The book was set by hand in the Bembo typeface, the type having been cast by Ed Rayher at the Swamp Press and Typefoundry. It was printed on Nideggen paper using a Vandercook SP20 proof press. The portrait of the author for the cover was created by Carol Blinn, and the book was bound at the Campbell-Logan Bindery. 28 copies were printed. Hopefully you have enjoyed reading this book-- if not, well... We can do without your kind in Kentucky."--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.

OCLC:

656876135