Deep play : notes on the Balinese cockfight / Clifford Geertz ; wood engravings by Wesley Bates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geertz, Clifford, author.

Contributor:

Bates, Wesley W., wood engraver.

Contre Coup Press, publisher, printer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cockfighting--Indonesia.

Cockfighting.

Ethnology--Indonesia.

Ethnology.

Balinese (Indonesian people).

Indonesia.

Genre:

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)

Bates, Wesley W. (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[6], 111, [5] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Louisville : Contre Coup Press, 2008.

Notes:

"The original version of "Deep Play" included numerous footnotes, some of which were bibliographical citations while others were expansions of discussion in the text. For this reprinting of the essay, footnotes have been eliminated, and the editor has exercised license to incorporate relevant content into the body of the text."--Editorial note (inserted).

Essay first appeared in: Daedalus, vol. 101, Winter, 1972.

"The book has been issued in two states. The regular edition consists of 25 numbered copies bound in decorated paper-covered boards with a cloth spine, and enclosed in a slipcase. Each copy is signed by the wood-engraver, Wesley Bates. The special edition is limited to 8 roman-numeral-numbered copies bound in decorated paper-covered boards with a leather spine, accompanied by a portfolio of individual prints of the wood engravings printed on Johannot paper. Additionally, each copy of the special edition includes one of the original woodblocks hand-engraved by Wesley Bates that were used in the printing of the illustrations. The special edition, along with the folder and woodblock, are housed in a custom clamshell box."--Colophon.

The typeface is Bembo. Set by hand at the Contre Coup Press. Printed on Frankfurt paper. Book bound at Campbell Logan Bindery.--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 is regular edition number 4. Signed. 3 sheet announcement from publisher laid in.

OCLC:

606616530