Title from portfolio case. "The pandemic has provided some solid work time and I have just finished printing American Crow: Report from Quarantine--a somewhat spontaneous reporting of events from March 2020 until Inauguration Day 2021."--Midnight Paper Sales website. Includes death toll from COVID-19 at various points during the printing of the book. Sealed beneath a thin sheet numbered "viii", attached to the portfolio case, is "the initial sheet of A simple rumination on death" with title "Novel corvid" in black with a red "v", printed by the author in March 2020. French-folded sections printed on gampi paper. "Three multi-color wood engravings, and various other elements engraved, or cut in wood. ... The seven loose sections are contained in a chitsu case made by Matthew Lawler Zimmerman at Studio Alcyon, with assistance from Lisa Hersey of Antler Editions, Erin Clay Nelson, and Rebecca Fisher Staley. The original printing of Novel Corvid (Glen's Woods) is entombed in the back panel of the case"--Author's website, viewed December 15, 2021 "Printed in an edition of 100 possible copies by Gaylord Schanilec."--Colophon. Signed by Schanilec, indicating that 88 copies were actually made. Portfolio case is black cloth-covered over board, lined with red cloth. Special Collections has copy number 27/88, signed by the author. IaU
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1285077642
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
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