Research Catalog

Title

Five short stories / by Marcel Aymé ; wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec.

Author

Aymé, Marcel, 1902-1967

Publication

Newtown : Bird & Bull Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schanilec, Gaylord
• Denny, Norman
• Morris, Henry, 1925-2019
• Bird & Bull Press, publisher.
• Campbell-Logan Bindery, binder.
• Golgonooza Letter Foundry, compositor.

Description

100 pages : illustrations; 26 cm +

Genre/Form

• Wood-engravings – Specimens – United States – 1994.
• Wood engravings.
• Short stories – U.S.A. – 1994.
• Private press books – Pennsylvania – Newtown – 1994.

Note

• "The stories were translated from the French by Norman Denny, who also wrote the introduction."--A Prefatory Note, page 7.
• "One hundred-fifty copies of this book have been printed on Arches mouldmade paper at Bird & Bull Press in October 1994. The text was composed in Dante types by Golgonooza Letter Foundry and the book was bound by Campbell-Logan Bindery"--Colophon.

Indexed In (note)

• Rulon-Miller, R. Quarter to midnight : Gaylord Schanilec & Midnight Paper Sales

Language (note)

• Text in English, translated from the original French.

Binding (note)

• Bound in publisher's blue cloth boards with label laid on spine ; unbound plates in printed paper frames laid in gray folder ; issued in a red cloth clamshell box with leather label laid on spine.

Contents

The state of grace -- The dwarf -- Rue de l'Évangile -- Legend of Poldevia -- The seven-league boots.

Call Number

Rare Books 20-490

OCLC

32104506

Author

Aymé, Marcel, 1902-1967, author.

Title

Five short stories / by Marcel Aymé ; wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec.

Publisher

Newtown : Bird & Bull Press, 1994.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Rulon-Miller, R. Quarter to midnight : Gaylord Schanilec & Midnight Paper Sales, A.126

Language

Text in English, translated from the original French.

Binding

Bound in publisher's blue cloth boards with label laid on spine ; unbound plates in printed paper frames laid in gray folder ; issued in a red cloth clamshell box with leather label laid on spine. NN

Local Note

Copy in Rare Books 20-490 is no. 26 of 150 copies.

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Added Author

Schanilec, Gaylord, illustrator.

Denny, Norman, translator, writer of introduction.

Morris, Henry, 1925-2019, writer of preface.

Bird & Bull Press, publisher.

Campbell-Logan Bindery, binder.

Golgonooza Letter Foundry, compositor.

Research Call Number

Rare Books 20-490