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The estivation of two Mao Tzu : being an informal and occasionally frivolous account of our vacation in China during the summer of 1934 / set down by Melbert B. Cary Jr.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Woolly Whale 19
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cary, Melbert B., Jr., 1892-1941, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cary, Melbert B., Jr., 1892-1941--Travel--China.
- Cary, Melbert B.
- China--Description and travel.
- China.
- Cary, Melbert B., Jr., 1892-1941.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Centaur.
- Kawara (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [12],124, [2] pages : maps ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Privately printed at the Press of the Woolly Whale, 1935.
- Notes:
- "Type, 14 point Centaur ... Dragon drawn by Warren Chappell ... Presswork by George W. Van Vechten, Jr. Hand bound by Gerhard Gerlach. Edition less than 250 copies on Kawara and 4 special copies on Inomachi vellum"--Colophon.
- Printed on double leaves.
- Copyright 1935 by author--verso of title page.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is copy 235. Slip of paper laid in wishing Merry Christmas from Mary and Melbert Cary.
- OCLC:
- 43323824
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