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Banging rocks : a dissertation on the origin of a species of rock that descended with modification from the ancient piroboli, complete with elaborate descriptions of its social and sexual habits, information regarding its behaviors and activities, as well as details pertaining to its care and feeding

Title: Banging rocks : a dissertation on the origin of a species of rock that descended with modification from the ancient piroboli, complete with elaborate descriptions of its social and sexual habits, information regarding its behaviors and activities, as well as details pertaining to its care and feeding / written by the illustrious Mark Philip Carol ; illustrated by the literate Alan James Robinson.
Author: Carol, Mark Philip.
Publication: [Easthampton, Mass.] : ABCedary Productions, 1990.

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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 ABCedary 98-258	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

[33] p. : ill.; 20 cm.

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Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Centaur.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Arrighi.

Note

The ill. are reproductions of drawings and wood engravings.
Binding: Publisher's tan paper boards, by Kim O'Donnell of GarthegaatBindery; issued in natural linen case (22 cm.) with two stones in individual compartments.

Call Number

*KP ABCedary 98-258

OCLC

22231840
NYPG98-B971

Author

Carol, Mark Philip.

Title

Banging rocks : a dissertation on the origin of a species of rock that descended with modification from the ancient piroboli, complete with elaborate descriptions of its social and sexual habits, information regarding its behaviors and activities, as well as details pertaining to its care and feeding / written by the illustrious Mark Philip Carol ; illustrated by the literate Alan James Robinson.

Imprint

[Easthampton, Mass.] : ABCedary Productions, 1990.

Local Note

125 copies (100 regular edition, 25 deluxe) printed by H.P. McGrath in olive drab and black on T.H. Saunders Hotpress Watercolor paper from Centaur and Arrighi types set at the Golgonooza Type Foundry. No. "5/100"; signed in pencil by the illustrator.

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Robinson, Alan James.

McGrath, Harold. Printer

ABCedary Letterpress. Publisher

Golgonooza Letter Foundry. Compositor

Garthegaat Bindery. Binder

Research Call Number

*KP ABCedary 98-258

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