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Madeleine / by Lawrence Clark Powell ; an excerpt from The blue train with stencil illustrations by Vance Gerry.

LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Weather Bird 207
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-2001, author.
Contributor:
Gerry, Vance, illustrator.
Reagh, Patrick, printer.
Fournier, le jeune (Pierre Simon), 1712-1768, type designer.
Blau, Bela, binder.
Weather Bird Press, publisher.
ArjoWiggins Appleton (Firm), papermaker.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
Standardized Title:
Blue train. Selections
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American fiction--20th century.
American fiction.
Stencil work--Specimens.
Stencil work.
Genre:
Specimens.
Private press books (Printing)
Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
Limitation statements (Publishing)
Deckled edges (Paper)
Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Fournier.
Dust jackets (Binding)
Printed wrappers (Binding)
Untrimmed edges (Binding)
Illustrated works.
Authors' autographs (Provenance)
Penn Provenance:
Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-2001 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Physical Description:
[6], 33, [3] pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Place of Publication:
Pasadena : The Weatherbird Press, 1990.
Notes:
"This Weatherbird Press publication printed by Patrick Reagh in an edition of 125 copies. This is no. [blank]"--Colophon.
"Rives heavyweight paper, Fournier type. Bound in wrappers by Bela Blau."--Gerry.
Deckled edges, untrimmed; issued in dust jacket.
Local Notes:
Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 20 (the copy number supplied in manuscript), signed by the author, of a limited edition of 125 copies. See colophon.
Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.
Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
Cited in:
Gerry, Vance. Twenty-five years of the Weather Bird Press, 70
OCLC:
22741760

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