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The curious case of Kenelm Digby

Title: The curious case of Kenelm Digby / by Christopher Morley.
Author: Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957.
Publication: [College Point, N.Y.] : Universal Coterie of Pipe Smokers, 1975

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23 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

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Typefaces (Type evidence) – Garamond.

Note

"Privately printed for the members of The Universal Coterie of Pipe Smokers and their friends"--Colophon.
Preface by Herman Abromson.
Frontispiece depicts the author smoking a pipe, after an unpublished caricature by Georges Schreiber.
Originally published in the author's Tales from a rolltop desk (1921).
Concerns an author who is poisoned with adulterated pipe tobacco by a tobacconist-bookseller. Ill. on p. 21 depicts the tobacconist's shop.
Issued in marbled paper wrappers with printed paper label.

Call Number

Arents 97-32

LCCN

76358645 //r85

OCLC

2931559
NYPG97-B69

Author

Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957.

Title

The curious case of Kenelm Digby / by Christopher Morley.

Imprint

[College Point, N.Y.] : Universal Coterie of Pipe Smokers, 1975 ([New York] : Angelica Press)

Local Note

No. 173 of 500 copies printed on Curtis Rag paper from Garamond No. 3 type with one Goudy Oldstle initial; signed by Dennis J. Grastorf, the designer, and Marilyn M. Grastorf, the illustrator.

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Grastorf, Marilyn M.

Schreiber, Georges, 1904-

Grastorf, Dennis J.. Book designer

Universal Coterie of Pipe Smokers.

Angelica Press. Printer

Research Call Number

Arents 97-32

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