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Da Vinci's bicycle : ten stories
- Title
- Da Vinci's bicycle : ten stories / Guy Davenport.
- Author
- Davenport, Guy.
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corp., 1997.
- ©1979
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 185 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
- Summary
- "The stories are based on historical figures whose endeavors were too early, too late, or went against the grain of their time. They are all people who see the world differently from their contemporaries and therefore seem absurd"-- Page 4 of cover.
- Series Statement
- New Directions classics ; 842
- ND Classic 842
- Subject
- Short stories
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Note
- "A New Directions Classic" -- title page.
- "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.
- Indexed In (note)
- Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin
- Binding (note)
- bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Semadar Megged.
- Contents
- The Richard Nixon Freischütz rag -- C. Musonius Rufus -- The wooden dove of Archytas -- John Charles Tapner -- Au tombeau de Charles Fourier -- The Haile Selassie funeral train -- Ithaka -- The invention of photography in Toledo -- The antiquities of Elis -- A field of snow on a slope of the Rosenberg.
- Call Number
- Berg Coll 22-753
- ISBN
- 0811213501
- 9780811213509
- LCCN
- 97004441
- OCLC
- 36241769
- Author
- Davenport, Guy.
- Title
- Da Vinci's bicycle : ten stories / Guy Davenport.
- Imprint
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corp., 1997.
- Copyright Date
- ©1979
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New Directions classics ; 842ND Classic 842
- Indexed In:
- Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 148
- Binding
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-753 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Semadar Megged. NN
- Local Note
- Copy in Berg Coll 22-753 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
- Added Author
- Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.Megged, Semadar, cover designer.New Directions Publishing, publisher.Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.Javitch, Daniel, donor.Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll 22-753