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Fondelle, or, The whore with a heart of gold : a report from the field / Ed McClanahan.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Larkspur Press 60
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McClanahan, Ed
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hitchhiking.
- McClanahan, Ed.
- Authors, American--Kentucky.
- Authors, American.
- Genre:
- American essays
- Type and type founding -- Emerson.
- Type and type founding -- Goudy Oldstyle.
- Wood engravings.
- Quarter bindings (Binding)
- Decorated paper bindings (Binding)
- Printed paper labels (Binding)
- Dust jackets (Binding)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Emerson.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Goudy Old Style.
- Physical Description:
- 62 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Whore with a heart of gold
- Place of Publication:
- Monterey, Ky. : Larkspur Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Chronicle of the author's hitchhiking adventure the summer before his senior year in college.
- Notes:
- "This book was handset in Joseph Blumenthal's Emerson type and Frederic Goudy's Goudy Oldstyle for display. It was printed on a hand-fed C & P. 700 copies were printed on Mohawk Superfine paper and cloth bound. 65 were printed on dampened Biblio paper and handbound by Carolyn Whitesel. The wood engravings were cut by Welsey Bates. Design, compositions and printing were by Deborah Kessler, Rhonda Seabolt, Leslie Shane and Gray Zeitz at Larkspur Press on Sawdridge Creek."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Larkspur Press 60: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck in 2018. Prospectus laid in. With dust jacket.
- OCLC:
- 50882220
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