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The work of Ward Ritchie : designer, printer, poet : his alter ego and his muses, with remarks by his friend / Lawrence Clark Powell.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Weather Bird 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-2001, author.
- Ritchie, Ward, 1905-1996, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ritchie, Ward, 1905-1996.
- Ritchie, Ward.
- Printers--California--Biography.
- Printers.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Biographies.
- Private press books (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Wrappers (Binding)
- Poems.
- Publishers’ advertisements.
- Authors' autographs (Provenance)
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 2 & 3))
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 2 & 3))
- Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-2001 (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 2))
- Lowe(?), Dick (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 2))
- Physical Description:
- 93, [1] pages ; 22 cm
- Manufacture:
- Tucson : Commercial Printers
- Other Title:
- Ward Ritchie : designer, printer, poet
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : Truepenny Books, 1997.
- Contents:
- Quince and Ritchie
- XV poems for the heath broom
- The year's at the Spring
- Fragments of yesterday
- A few more
- Quince, etc.
- A summer sequence for Marka
- Gloria.
- Credits:
- Book designer, Vance Gerry.
- Notes:
- "This edition is limited to 300 copies designed by Vance Gerry. Typesetting and printing by Commercial Printers, Tucson. Bound by Roswell Bookbinding."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copies Weather Bird 2 and Weather Bird 3 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 2) has manuscript note ("C929 TU") in pencil on front free endpaper.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection (Weather Bird 2) signed by the author on title leaf.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 2) has laid in 2 copies each of advertising bookmark for Truepenny Books and advertisement for paper made by Katherine Loeffler.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 2) has folded order form for this edition laid in; portion of invoice with manuscript note ("P.S. your copy is one of only a very few signed copies. Powell was to infirm to sign the edition as we had hoped. Best Wishes, Dick Lowe[?]")
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy (Weather Bird 3) has manuscript note ("C1433 NA") in pencil on front free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 36661625
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