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Japanese paper balloon bombs : the first ICBM.

Title: Japanese paper balloon bombs : the first ICBM.
Author: Morris, Henry, 1925-2019.
Publication: North Hills [Pa.] : Bird & Bull Press, 1982.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Schlosser 533	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308
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Additional Authors

Mikesh, Robert C.

Description

[25] p.; 11 cm. +

Subject

Note

"In truth, the first ICBM was carried 6200 miles to its destination by the winds of the Pacific jet stream in November 1944, suspended from a thirty-two-foot balloon made of Japanese handmade paper": p. [7-8].
One of 375 copies printed in black (text) and scarlet (ornaments) on cream-colored paper; the ill. is printed on handmade Japanese sekishu paper (cf. prospectus).
Published anonymously. Evidently by Henry Morris, proprietor of the Bird & Bull Press. Largely drawn from: Japan's World War II balloon bomb attacks on North America / Robert C. Mikesh. 1973.
Blank leaf, not counted in collation, precedes colophon.
Binding, publisher's, by Claudia Cohen, of reddish brown handmade Italian Roma paper boards; issued in slipcase together with the ill., in stiff paper covers.

Indexed In (note)

Heaney, H.J. Bird & Bull

Call Number

*KP (Bird) 90-485

LCCN

84162720

OCLC

12053473
NYPG90-B23473

Author

Morris, Henry, 1925-2019.

Title

Japanese paper balloon bombs : the first ICBM.

Imprint

North Hills [Pa.] : Bird & Bull Press, 1982.

Indexed In:

Heaney, H.J. Bird & Bull, A36

Local Note

Accompanied by prospectus ([4] p.), with (inverted) prospectus ([4] p.) for: On improvements in marbling the edges of books and paper. Newtown, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 1983.

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Local Subject

Japanese paper -- Specimens.

Paper, Handmade -- Japan -- Specimens.

Added Author

Mikesh, Robert C. Japan's World War II balloon bomb attacks on North America.

Research Call Number

*KP (Bird) 90-485

Schlosser 533

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