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Author:

Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955, author.

Title:

Poems / Wallace Stevens ; selected and with an introduction by Helen Vendler ; [with a frontispiece etching by Jasper Johns.]

Publisher:

Arion Press,

Copyright Date:

1985

Description:

xxviii, 249 pages : illustrations (etching) ; 31 cm

Subject:

Fine books--San Francisco--San Francisco--20th century--Specimens.
Letterpress printing--San Francisco--San Francisco--20th century--Specimens.
Etching, American--20th century--Specimens.
Poetry.
Etchings.
Poetry.
Etchings.
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Bembo (Monotype)
Typefaces (Type evidence)--Dante Titling.
Paper evidence--T. Edmonds
Etchings (prints)
Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Other Authors:

Mackenzie-Harris Corporation, compositor.
Universal Limited Art Editions (Firm), printer of frontispiece etching.
Schuberth Bookbindery, binder.
Arion Press, publisher.
Vendler, Helen, 1933- author of introduction. author of introduction.
Johns, Jasper, 1930- artist. artist.
Hoyem, Andrew, printer.
Kelsey, Matthew, printer.
Kruse, Katherine, printer.
Redden, Gerald, printer.
Todd, Glenn, printer.
Van Velzer, Lawrence G., printer.
Lund, John (John A.), printer of frontispiece etching.
Zammiello, Craig, 1955- printer of frontispiece etching.

Other Titles:

Poems. Selections

Notes:

"Each copy contains as a frontispiece an etching by Jasper Johns, made especially for this book, signed by the artist"--Page [iii]. "Limited to three hundred and twenty-six copies; those for sale are numbered 1 through 300 and those distributed among the participants in the publication are lettered from A through Z"--Page [iii]. "Printed and published by the Arion Press in San Francisco ... The titles and initial letters were handset in Dante Titling. The text was composed in Monotype Bembo by Mackenzie-Harris Corp. of San Francisco. The paper is English mould-made T. Edmonds. The letterpress was printed on a Miller TW cylinder press. The etching was printed by John Lund and Craig Zammiello at Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc., West Islip, New York. The books were bound by Schuberth Bookbindery of San Francisco. This, the seventeenth book of the Arion Press, was made by Andrew Hoyem with the assistance of Matthew Kelsey, Katherine Kruse, Gerald Redden, Glenn Todd, and Lawrence Van Velzer, in the spring and summer of 1985"--Colophon. Includes indexes. Special Collections has copy number 79. IaU Special Collections copy has [4] page prospectus laid in, includes [2] pages of text and [1] page featuring a reproduction of the frontispiece etching; last page blank. IaU

Indexed by:

Arion Press. Bibliography of the Arion Press, 17

OCLC:

(OCoLC)12770927

LCCN:

86120639

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)