NMLP P-040588 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

Serenade

James M. Cain · Alfred A. Knopf (New York) · 1937

The book was designed by W. A. Dwiggins, who also supplied the title-page vignette and the dust jacket — an unusual excursion for him into wrapper design (Smiley & Bell 41); the text was composed in Linotype Bodoni and the book printed and bound by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-040588 for "Serenade" by James M. Cain (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040588, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).