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Father of waters, or, Why, majestically, the Mississippi river flows on, making American history and legend / by Earl Schenck Miers, with help from Mike Fink, Davy Crockett, Mark Twain and other lovers of the old river ; woodcuts by Fritz Kredel.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miers, Earl Schenck, 1910-1972, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mississippi River--History.
- Mississippi River.
- Genre:
- History.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bodoni Book (Monotype).
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bodoni Book.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Bauer Bodoni Extra Bold.
- Curtis Rag Natural Laid (paper).
- Tweedweave Tan (paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 31 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Manufacture:
- [New York] : Spiral Press
- Other Title:
- Father of waters
- Why, majestically, the Mississippi river flows on, making American history and legend
- Father of waters : the Mississippi
- Place of Publication:
- [Newark, Delaware] : published for the friends of the Curtis Paper Company, [June, 1963]
- Contents:
- Introductory
- In the heyday of Mike Fink
- Nicholas Roosevelt's fool idea
- Sam Clemens's river
- The great spirit.
- Credits:
- Designers, Peter Oldenburgh and Joseph Blumenthal.
- Notes:
- "This is the tenth in a series of publications in Americana made for the Curtis Paper Company of Newark, Delaware. The edition was designed by Peter Oldenburgh and Joseph Blumenthal. The paper is Curtis Rag Natural Laid for letterpress with Tweedweave Tan Cover. The text has been set in Monotype Bodoni Book. The display is in Bodoni Book and Bauer Bodoni Extra Bold."--Colophon.
- 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.
- OCLC:
- 26622669
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