LC has copy letter N, signed by the author, artist, and printer. DLC Special Collections has copy number 82, signed by Toni Morrison, Kara Walker, and Peter Koch. IaU Genre terms without coding are taken from the Art Libraries Society of North America Artists' Books Thesaurus. http://allisonjai.com/abt/vocab/index.php IaU "Published in a signed edition of 399 numbered and 26 lettered copies. The book was designed by Peter Rutledge Koch, and printed letterpress from digital imaging and photo-polymer plates at Peter Koch, Printers in Berkeley, California. The typeface is Rialto Piccolo designed by Giovanni de Faccio and Lui Karner. The text paper is Rives BFK, the cover papers are Fabriano Ingres. Binding and housing by Jace Graf at Cloverleaf Studio in Austin, Texas. ... This is copy number [copy number]"--Colophon. "399 numbered copies bound using red quarter cloth and yellow Fabriano paper over boards. ... Nine copies have been reserved from the original numbered edition and are available with a suite of exhibition prints from the book." --Bookseller's description. Special Collections copy has portfolio of exhibition prints created by Kara Walker; "...Koch, in turn, invited artist Kara Walker, renowned for her original and often disturbing paper-cuts, to create a suite of original illustrations. This printed leaf accompanied the poem, 'The Perfect Ease of Grain' and is cut down from the original press sheet damaged in shipping and subsequently reprinted for the book." --Portfolio leaf. IaU
Contents:
Eve remembering -- The perfect ease of grain -- Someone leans near -- It comes unadorned -- I am not seaworthy.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1126336850
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.