Anonymous handmade book
Content Description
This collection contains one original typed humerous in a handmade book. The book is bound with a faded silk tie at the spine, and made up of clippings, magazine pages, typed pages, and illustrations. A humorous epistolary story, it is told by a soldier stationed at Camp Lee outside Petersburg, Va., who falls in love with the voice of a woman who sells him a book over the phone from the longtime local booksellers T. S. Beckwith & Co.
Dates
- Creation: c. 1919
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is minimally processed and open for research.
Extent
.03 Cubic Feet (1 letter folder)
Language of Materials
English
Condition Description
fair
- Title
- Guide to the Anonymous handmade book
- Author
- Initial record created by Rose Oliveira.
- Date
- 27 April 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States