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Mark Twain on bowling & billiards : a chapter from the autobiography.

LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Contre Coup 14
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910, author.
Contributor:
Blinn, Carol J., binding designer.
Contre Coup Press, publisher, printer.
Campbell-Logan Bindery, binder.
Twinrocker Handmade Paper, papermaker.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Bowling.
Billiards.
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:
[2], 15, [3] pages : photograph ; 29 cm
Other Title:
Bowling & billiards
On bowling and billiards
On bowling & billiards
Place of Publication:
Louisville, Ky. : Contre Coup Press, 2009.
Notes:
"Set by hand in the Cochin typeface and printed on Twinrocker handmade paper ... The paper for the binding was possibly decorated by the irrepressible Carol J. Blinn. The book was bound at the Campbell-Logan Bindery .... edition of twelve copies, or maybe ten -- or along there somewhere"--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 invoice laid in.
OCLC:
656882831

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