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The red badge of courage : an episode of the American Civil War / by Stephen Crane ; [decorations by Valenti Angelo].
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Grabhorn Press 78
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863--Fiction.
- Chancellorsville, Battle of, Chancellorsville, Va., 1863.
- Soldiers--Fiction.
- Soldiers.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
- United States.
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
- Virginia.
- Psychological fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- War stories.
- Virginia--Chancellorsville.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Goudy Modern.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- War fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [4], 142 pages : illustrations ; 34 cm
- Manufacture:
- San Francisco : Printed ... at the Grabhorn Press, in July, 1931.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, Inc., [1931]
- Summary:
- During his service in the Civil War a young Union soldier matures to manhood and finds peace of mind as he comes to grips with his conflicting emotions about war.
- Notes:
- "Printed in the United State of America at the Grabhorn Press for Random House, Inc., New York. Decorations by Valenti Angelo. This edition is printed with the consent of the copyright holders, D. Appleton & Co."--Preliminary page [3].
- "980 copies printed in July, 1931, at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, for Random House, Inc., New York. The decorations are by Valenti Angelo. This is copy no. [blank]"--Colophon.
- "Title printed in black and red; twenty-four initials in red. Title page illustration, twenty-four headpieces, and tailpiece by Valenti Angleo. Type Goudy Modern, handset; paper Van Gelder. Bound in blue designed boards with black cloth back; strip of red leather with title in gold on back."--Heller.
- Deckled edges (fore- and tail edges untrimmed).
- Local Notes:
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 763 (the copy number supplied in manuscript in red ink) of a limited edition of 980 copies. See colophon.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Cited in:
- Heller, E.R. Bibliography of the Grabhorn Press, 154
- OCLC:
- 1832017
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