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What men live by / Leo Tolstoy ; wood engravings by Mallette Dean.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Allen Press 4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Chem li︠u︡di zhivy. English
- Language:
- English
- Russian
- Subjects (All):
- Peasants--Fiction.
- Peasants.
- Angels--Fiction.
- Angels.
- Russia--Fiction.
- Russia.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Handmade papers (Paper)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Romanée.
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Illustrated works.
- Prospectuses.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Allen, Lewis M. (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Allen, Dorothy, 1908-2006 (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Fahey, Herbert, 1894-1959 (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Fahey, Edna Peter, 1897-1974 (inscription) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [50] pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Belvedere, California : The L-D Allen Press, MDMLI [1951]
- Summary:
- A short story about a kind and humble peasant who helps a fallen angel.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Chem li︠u︡di zhivy.
- "This book is one of an edition limited to one hundred fifty copies. The type face is Romanée, hand-set; the paper is hand-made Maidstone, printed damp. The book was designed, printed on a hand-press, and bound by Lewis & Dorothy Allen at The L-D Allen Press."--Colophon.
- "The twelve handsome wood engravings by Mallette Dean ... were hand-colored by Dorothy Allen ..."--Allen Press.
- "The binding consists of black 'binder's vellum' for the spine, with red, Italian Fabriano cover paper over boards, stamped with title and wood-engraving."--Prospectus.
- Deckled edges, untrimmed. Printed paper spine label with author's name.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has blank receipt of The L-D Allen Press with manuscript note ("Many thanks, dear friends, for your order, check & encouraging note--especially the latter. Doroth & Lewis") in blue ink laid in.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has prospectus and order blank addressed to Philip C. Duschnes for this edition laid in; a second copy of the prospectus in mailing envelope addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Fahey, 510 Pine Street, San Francisco, in green ink with cancellation dated 22 March 1951 laid in.
- Cited in:
- Allen Press. The Allen Press bibliography, 10
- OCLC:
- 12135455
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