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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.
Contributor:
Gerry, Vance, book designer.
Truepenny Books, publisher.
Commercial Printers, printer, typographer.
Roswell Bookbinding, binder.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
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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