Spanking the Maid / Robert Coover

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2025.16.43

Description

Red cloth covers with marbled paper end sheets. Floral design, title, and author’s name in gold. Red cloth has a woodgrain texture. Page 55 of author’s manuscript in after the half-title page, across from the colophon. Endbands of red and yellow. Plastic sheet as book cover. Illustrations, 53p.

Collection

Howard Kistler

Dimensions

Height

29 cm

Width

22.6 cm

Book Details

Author

Robert Coover

Illustrator

Erica “Rikki” Ducornet

Volume/Number/Issue

LV of XCV [55 of 95] of 600 copies printed

Publisher

Bruccoli Clark

Place Published

City

Bloomfield Hills

State/Province

Michigan

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1981

Printer

Washburn Press

Place Printed

* Untyped Place Printed

Charlotte, NC

Date Printed

1981

Binding

Binding Type

Hollow Back

Notes

“This edition… designed by Lewis G. Brierley, was printed on 70 pound Artemis text paper in 14 point Caslon Old Face 2 and 48 point Fette Fraktur type, by the Washburn Press in Charlotte, North Carolina. Six hundred copies have been printed. Copies numbered I to XCV are specially bound with a page of Robert Coover's fair copy manuscript"