America / by Ruth Tooze ; decorations by Valenti Angelo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tooze, Ruth, author.

Contributor:

Angelo, Valenti, 1897-1982, illustrator.

Viking Press, publisher.

Konecky Associates, lithographer.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Juvenile literature.

Nationalism.

United States--Description and travel--Juvenile literature.

United States.

United States--Description and travel--Poetry.

Travel.

Genre:

Imagist poetry.

Juvenile works.

Poetry.

Private press books (Printing)

Case bindings (Binding)

Dust jackets (Binding)

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)

Illustrated works.

Poems.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

31, [1] pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second printing.

Manufacture:

[Place of printing not identified] : Lithographed in the U.S.A. by Konecky Associates.

Place of Publication:

New York : the Viking Press, 1960.

Summary:

An American woman's summing up of what the United States of America really is; the land, the people themselves, in work and play and worship; the cities; the industries and the bridges--and the arts and crafts that show how we have developed a rich and varied cultural life.

Notes:

Issued in publisher's green cloth; illustration of torch surrounded by stars stamped in brown on left board; title, author's surname, and publisher's name stamped in brown on spine; color-illustrated endpapers; dust jacket.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: front and back flaps of dust jacket laid in, the rest wanting.

OCLC:

1390147531