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Christopher Columbus

Title: Christopher Columbus / Charles Bertin ; translated by William Jay Smith ; wood engravings by John DePol.
Author: Bertin, Charles.
Publication: [Providence, R.I.] : John Carter Brown Library ; Roslyn, N.Y. : Stone House Press, 1992.

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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	Berg Coll Smith, WJ ZC6 B444 1992	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP (Stone House) 98-320	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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85 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

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Typefaces (Type evidence) – Monotype Van Dijck.

Note

A verse drama.
Preface by Norman Fiering.
This translation first published in Two plays: Christopher Columbus and Don Juan (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1970).
200 copies printed on Rives paper from Monotype Van Dijck type.
"Illustrations printed in black are from works in the John Carter Brown Library, selected by Norman Fiering ... The original wood engravings, printed in color(s) other than black, are by John De Pol"--Colophon.
Illustrations: 6 prints : wood engraving, monochrome ; full-page (1) or smaller. There are also 6 reproductions of prints.
Binding: Publisher's gray cloth, designed by George Laws, by Frank Casto, Alpha-Pavia Bindery, New York. Illustrated lining papers.

Call Number

*KP (Stone House) 98-320

ISBN

0937035246 (regular ed.)
0937035254 (deluxe ed.)

LCCN

94188768

OCLC

25996162
NYPG98-B1108

Author

Bertin, Charles.

Title

Christopher Columbus / Charles Bertin ; translated by William Jay Smith ; wood engravings by John DePol.

Imprint

[Providence, R.I.] : John Carter Brown Library ; Roslyn, N.Y. : Stone House Press, 1992.

Local Note

*KP copy is no. 1 ; signed by the translator, the artist and the printer/publisher, Morris A. Gelfand.

Berg Coll. copy is no. 22; signed by the translator, the artist and the printer/publisher, Morris A. Gelfand.

Berg Coll. copy contains fall 1991 newsletter from the Stone House Press addressed to Robert A. Wilson, laid in.

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Added Author

DePol, John, 1913-2004. Illustrator

Smith, William Jay, 1918- Translator

Fiering, Norman.

Gelfand, Morris A. (Morris Arthur), 1908- Printer

John Carter Brown Library.

Stone House Press (Roslyn, N.Y.) Printer

Alpha-Pavia Bindery. Binder

Smith, William Jay, 1918- Signer

DePol, John, 1913-2004. Signer

Gelfand, Morris A. (Morris Arthur), 1908- Signer

Research Call Number

*KP (Stone House) 98-320

Berg Coll Smith, WJ ZC6 B444 1992

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