Willi's wishful thinking / [compiled by Melbert B. Cary, Jr.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cary, Melbert B., Jr., 1892-1941, compiler.

Van Vechten, George W., Jr., -1962, printer.

Press of the Woolly Whale, printer, publisher.

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

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Caricatures and cartoons.

World War, 1914-1918.

Genre:

Caricatures and cartoons.

Postcards.

Private press books (Printing)

Tracy (Paper).

Typefaces (Type evidence) -- English Caslon.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[34] pages : chiefly facsimiles ; 16 cm

Other Title:

Wishful thinking

Place of Publication:

New York : Issued in Commemoration of Armistice Day by the Press of the Woolly Whale, 1938

Notes:

German captions, parallel English translation.

"The 11th Armistice Day issue of the Press"--Page [33].

"Copyright, 1939, by Melbert B. Cary, Jr."

"In commemoration of Armistice Day, 1938, a few copies of this book, hand set in the original English Caslon, have been printed by George W. Van Vechten, Jr., on Tracy mould made paper, constituting the 11th Armistice day issue of the Press"--Colophon.

Reproductions of postcards "issued by Germany and Austria in 1914 for use by their troops upon the capture of Paris."

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.

OCLC:

12795144