Masks and other poems / by Walter Strachan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strachan, W. J. (Walter John), 1903-1994.

Contributor:

Old Stile Press.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Small press books.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Guiro, Vincent (autograph)

Thursby, Peter (autograph)

Rhoades, Peter (autograph)

Houplain, Jacques (autograph)

Livi, Ivor (autograph)

B., Louttre (autograph)

Peschar, Jean (autograph)

Blanchet, Robert (autograph)

Taylor, Wendy (autograph)

Avati, Mario (autograph)

d'Arbeloff, Natalie (autograph)

Strachan, Geoffrey (autograph)

Physical Description:

67 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

Llandogo, Monmouthshire : Old Stile Press, 2000.

Contents:

Masks / etching by Vincent Guiro

Moments of time / photo-etching by Peter Thursby

Armistice-day, November 1944 / photo-etching by Peter Rhoades

The woods / etching by Jacques Houplain

Sea-piece / etching by Ivor Livi

Winter walk / engraving by Louttre B.

Sacre du printemps / etching by Jean Peschard

Midway / woodcut by Robert Blanchet

Epitaph on a lizard / etching by Wendy Taylor

Winter-piece / mezzotint by Mario Avati

In clear-cut planes / etching by Natalie d'Arbeloff

Afterword / by Geoffrey Strachan.

Notes:

With half-title.

"The poems were first published ... in Moments of time (Sylvan Press 1947) or in The season's pause (Secker and Warburg 1950) ... The images were all created specifically for inclusion in this book ... The edition consists of 100 copies, numbered 1-100. There are also 47 copies, numbered I-XLVII. These are reserved for the contributors and are not for sale. Each copy is signed by the artists."--Colophon.

Frontispiece engraving by Abram Krol.

Issued in a slipcase.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Library has copy no. 98.

ISBN:

0907664504

OCLC:

44639481