1946 ZDn

Copies examined

British Library: 12208.a.5/15
Curwen Press: F62

Title page

[1]2r

VERCORS | LE SILENCE DE | LA MER | LONDRES | ÉDITIONS PENGUIN | 1946 | PARIS: LES ÉDITIONS DE MINUIT

Imprint

[1]2v

A la mémoire de SAINT-POL-ROUX, | Poète assassiné | ...

Collation

[1-3]8.

Pagination

[5] 2 [3] 4-5 [6] 7-11 [12] 13-6 [17] 18-9 [20] 21-3 [24] 25-6 [27-9] 30-42 [+2].

Technical description

Crown 8o: 7½" × 5" trimmed, white wove, no mark; 12(+1)pt. Garamond; paper wrappers, printed up spine: ‘VERCORS: LE SILENCE DE LA MER’, and on upper wrapper in black and blue: ‘[within 36pt. border of rules, including an 8pt. rule in blue] VERCORS | [next 4 lines blue] LE | SILENCE | DE | LA MER | ÉDITIONS PENGUIN’, and on lower wrapper an advertisement for Éditions Penguin.

Notes

Vercors is a pseudonym of Jean Bruller.

One of the books shown in J. Curwen & Sons Centenary Exhibition 1963 (see Ab7) in Bloomsbury.

Legal deposit date

See also

Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 10/Mar/2008