International standard book number
9780907664925
International standard book number
090766492X
Shelfmark
Lt.1.20
Author
Uniform title
[Prose du Transsibérien et la petite Jehanne de France. English]
Title
Trans-Siberian prosody and little Jeanne from France / Blaise Cendrars ; translation by Dick Jones ; images Natalie d'Arbeloff.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Llandogo : The Old Stile Press, 2014.
Physical description
[48] p. : ill. ; 34 x 35 cm.
Language
Translated from the French.
Note
"The main edition consists of 150 copies, numbered and signed by the translator and artist. In addition there is a special edition, of which 10 copies (numbered I-X) are for sale."--Colophon.
Note
"The book was designed by Nicolas McDowall at The Old Stile Press ... and printed by him during the summer and autumn of 2014. The paper is Canaletto Liscio and the typeface Storm Sans. In the printing of the text, twenty-four different colours were used, chosen at random from a battery of inks deemed suitable."--Colophon.
Note
Initial and final leaves are blank; half-title with block-printed portrait of author: La prose du Transsibérien et la petite Jehanne de France.
Note
Publisher's case binding ; gilt cloth spine with spine title printed in black ; upper board covered in red paper and lower board in royal blue paper with title printed in wraparound design in pale grey-green ; endpapers reverse colours of boards. In metallic brown cloth slipcase with block-printed portrait of the author.
Provenance
Inscribed in pencil by Michael Meredith.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy is no. 29.
Subject
French poetry 20th century.
Subject
French poetry Translations into English.
Subject
Artists' books.
Genre/Form
Private press books.
Added entry--name
Jones, Dick (Translator) translator.
Added entry--name
D'Arbeloff, Natalie illustrator.
Added entry--name
Old Stile Press publisher.
Added entry--place
Wales Llandogo.
Language code
eng fre
Identifier
B45108