Research Catalog

Title

PPP ABC XYZ / Smith & Faust.

Author

Smith, Esther K.

Publication

New York : Purgatory Pie Press, c1989.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Faust, Dikko.
• Smith Faust, Georgia Luna, 1986-
• Purgatory Pie Press. prt

Description

[28] p. : ill.; 9 x 11 cm.

Alternative Title

PPPABCXYZ.

Subject

Alphabets

Genre/Form

• Alphabet books – United States – 20th century.
• Artists' books – United States.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Brush.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Gillies Gothic.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Bernhard Gothic.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Eagle Bold.
• Wood types (Type evidence).
• Artists' books – United States – 20th century.

Note

• "Typographer Dikko Faust handset and printed [the book] ... Lexicography & design by Esther K. Smith with some words by Georgia Luna"--P. [28].
• Printed on one side of a continuous strip folded accordion-style with first 2 pages folded back to form covers (counted in collation as p. [1] and [28]).
• The ill. consist of full-page wood type letters, printed in salmon.

Indexed In (note)

• Purgatory Pie Press cat., 1995

Call Number

*KP (Purgatory) 95-698

OCLC

• 21429222
• NYPG96-B31

Author

Smith, Esther K.

Title

PPP ABC XYZ / Smith & Faust.

Imprint

New York : Purgatory Pie Press, c1989.

Indexed In:

Purgatory Pie Press cat., 1995, p. 8

Local Note

150 copies printed in black and red from Brush, Gillies Gothic, Bernhard Gothic, Eagle Bold and wood types. No. 47 of 50 on Rives de Lin paper; signed in pencil by both collaborators and Georgia Luna.

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Added Author

Faust, Dikko. Printer

Smith Faust, Georgia Luna, 1986-

Purgatory Pie Press. Printer

Spine Title

PPPABCXYZ.

Research Call Number

*KP (Purgatory) 95-698