Accession number
PML 187224
Creator
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955.
Published
Cummington, Mass. : The Cummington Press, 1942.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First edition. Cf. Edelstein.
"Notes toward a Supreme Fiction has been hand-set in Centaur types & printed for the first time by hand on dampened all-rag papers: 190 copies numbered 1 to 190 on Dutch Charcoal, 80 copies numbered I to LXXX signed by the author on Worthy Hand & Arrows, & 3 copies lettered A to C on Highclere, an English hand-made paper. The title-pages are from designs by Alessandro Giampietro. Completed at Cummington, Massachusetts, September 1942"--Colophon.
Library's copy is number XX.
"Notes toward a Supreme Fiction has been hand-set in Centaur types & printed for the first time by hand on dampened all-rag papers: 190 copies numbered 1 to 190 on Dutch Charcoal, 80 copies numbered I to LXXX signed by the author on Worthy Hand & Arrows, & 3 copies lettered A to C on Highclere, an English hand-made paper. The title-pages are from designs by Alessandro Giampietro. Completed at Cummington, Massachusetts, September 1942"--Colophon.
Library's copy is number XX.
Description
45 pages ; 23 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription in black ink on front flyleaf: Lucile Horsley, 1942; inscription in purple ink on front flyleaf: Chapel Hill, N.C.; signed by the author in black ink below colophon as issued.
Provenance
Lucile Horsley; Carter Burden.
Binding
Publisher's white cloth lettered in black.
Classification
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Department