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La machine à écrire: pièce en trois actes (The Typewriter: A Play in Three Acts)

A work made of quarter vellum binding with white paper sides repeatedly stamped with an uppercase m in red and black; plain ivory endpapers; author and title stamped in gold on spine; original paper covers bound in.

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  • A work made of quarter vellum binding with white paper sides repeatedly stamped with an uppercase m in red and black; plain ivory endpapers; author and title stamped in gold on spine; original paper covers bound in.

Date:

Published 1941; rebound 1941-1942

Artist:

Mary Reynolds (American, 1891-1950)
Written by Jean Cocteau (French, 1889-1963)

About this artwork

Status

On View, Gallery 289

Department

Ryerson and Burnham Libraries Special Collections

Artist

Mary Reynolds

Title

La machine à écrire: pièce en trois actes (The Typewriter: A Play in Three Acts)

Place

Paris (Object made in:)

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1941

Medium

Quarter vellum binding with white paper sides repeatedly stamped with an uppercase M in red and black; plain ivory endpapers; author and title stamped in gold on spine; original paper covers bound in

Dimensions

19.1 × 12.8 × 2.9 cm (7 9/16 × 5 1/16 × 1 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Mary Reynolds Collection, Ryerson & Burnham Libraries

Reference Number

2019.175

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