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Colorful tales
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- Creator
- Peter Cherches
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Purgatory Pie Press, 1983
- Physical Details
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- 20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- OCLC
- ocm10006895
- "Esther K Smith designed the book with Dikko Faust who handset it in Weiss Roman & lots of lead rule. We printed it on a Vandercook Universal-I letterpress at Center for Book Arts ... The handbound edition consists of nos. 1-85 on Lana Laid all rag pH neutral paper in hard covers and nos. 86-180 on Monadnock Text in paper covers. The edsheets are Kozo papers."--Colophon
- Limited edition of 180 copies, numbered and signed by Peter Cherches, Dikko Faust, and Esther Smith.
- Each tale is composed of colored lines, a few words, and punctuation marks that corrolate with the title of the tale and represent the block of the text.
- Single sewn signature, case bound in yellow paper covered boards. Author and title letterpress printed on the front cover. Title and press initials on spine.
- Unspoken introduction -- Her only lover -- Color me Barbra -- How many times? -- A business trip -- Italian food -- Spring cleaning -- Yellow, I must be going