Cover image differs from the 1st edition

The 2nd edition of Giacomo Patri’s wordless novel, White Collar, unlike the 1st edition, was not numbered. Also, not all copies were signed.

  • Title: White Collar
  • [San Francisco, California] Self published by Patri.
  • some copies were signed by Giacomo Patri on leaf following title leaf (but not numbered, unlike the 1st Edition). NOTE: some copies exist without a signature – see below.
  • [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
  • Leaves are a fine tissue
  • story images printed in black ink with a brownish tinge
  • interior/dream images are printed in orange. SPECULATION: Patri’s 1939 edition used a grey ink and perhaps this didn’t distinguish the story images from inner sequence images adequately so, in 1940, Patri followed Lynd Ward’s lead where Ward used orange in his 1932 wordless novel, Wild Pilgrimage.
Some copies were signed in the same manner as the 1st edition
ie vertically, close to the metal binding.
This edition was not numbered.
Note: the signature layout is different than the one above.
Photo credit: Burnside
Some copies were not signed.
Photo credit: Ken Sanders Rare Books
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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