Cover image differs from the 1st edition

The 2nd edition of Giacomo Patri’s wordless novel, White Collar, was signed in black ink, unlike the 1st edition which was both signed and numbered.

  • Title: White Collar
  • [San Francisco, California] Self published by Patri.
  • signed by Giacomo Patri on leaf following title leaf (not numbered, unlike 1st Edition)
  • [123] leaves of plates: chiefly illustrations
  • 10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches (about the same size as the 1st edition)
  • with internal metal binding (double wires bound with wrappers of a black thin card embossed with a leather texture. NOTE: this is not a “spiral” binding – see images. See Also binding discussion at http://wordlessnovels.com/white-collar-bindings/
  • Unpaginated
  • printed recto
  • story images printed in black ink with a brownish tinge
  • interior/dream images are printed in orange.
  • Pages are a fine tissue
Signed but, unlike the 1st edition, this edition was not numbered.
Note the signature location is different than the one above.
Image credit: Burnside
NOTE: use of orange ink here as well as in the inner/dream sequences
1940 2nd edition dedication – Note the change in wording:
TO THE GREAT PROGRESSIVE LABOR MOVEMENT
THE CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS
Orange ink used in Patri's White Collar for the 2nd and 3rd editions.
Orange inner/dream sequence.

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