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ABC book.

Title: ABC book.
Author: Harwerth, Willi, 1894-1982.
Publication: [Cambridge, Mass., Department of Printing and Graphic Arts of the Harvard College Library, 1956]

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
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 (Harvard) (Harwerth, W. ABC book)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
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	*KH 1956 Harwerth 16-21	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

30 l. incl. facsim.: 28 l. illus.; 13 cm.

Subject

Genre/Form

Juvenile literature – Massachusetts – Cambridge – 1956.

Note

"Monochrome facsimile" of "an ABC book painted in water colors ... executed ... on a private order from America, by Willi Harwerth, one of the ... artists of the [Rudolph Koch] workshop."--cf. Philip Hofer's note at end.
Colophon of original manuscript: This ABC book designed Willi Harwerth. Offenbach. M. January 1933 ...
"600 copies printed by the Meriden Gravure Company."

Provenance (note)

Copy in *KH has card inlaid: Chiswick Bookshop, inscribed in ink, "Aveve and Herman Cohen," with two Christmas postage stamps dated 1957.

Binding (note)

Copy in *KH bound in publisher's decorated gray paper wrappers, printed in blue.

Call Number

*KP (Harvard) (Harwerth, W. ABC book)

LCCN

98213886

OCLC

41564809

Author

Harwerth, Willi, 1894-1982.

Title

ABC book.

Imprint

[Cambridge, Mass., Department of Printing and Graphic Arts of the Harvard College Library, 1956]

Provenance

Copy in *KH has card inlaid: Chiswick Bookshop, inscribed in ink, "Aveve and Herman Cohen," with two Christmas postage stamps dated 1957. NN

Binding

Copy in *KH bound in publisher's decorated gray paper wrappers, printed in blue. NN

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Harvard College Library. Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, publisher

Meriden Gravure Company, printer

Children's Room Collection.

Research Call Number

*KP (Harvard) (Harwerth, W. ABC book)

*KH 1956 Harwerth 16-21