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Monk at the Five Spot / Martin Williams.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Misc 1479
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Martin, 1924-1992, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Five Spot (Nightclub).
- Monk, Thelonious.
- Thelonious Monk Quartet.
- Jazz--1951-1960.
- Jazz.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Monotype Univers.
- St. Armand (Paper).
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- McMurray, Mark (Mark C.) (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Berard, Guy, 1941- (autograph) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [2], 11, [2] pages : color illustrations, map ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Canton, New York : Caliban Press, 2014.
- Notes:
- Double page centerfold stencil-colored collage with cut-paper silhouette. Revolving color map on opening page. Cloth-backed printed flexible boards; cutout on upper cover reveals a "5" on a golden spot.
- Thelonious Monk was a feature at the legendary jazz club Five Spot Cafe. The text describes a performance by the Thelonious Monk Quartet.
- "A night at the Five Spot" first appeared in Down Beat magazine on February 13, 1964"--Laid in colophon.
- "Designed, printed & bound by Mark McMurray. Signed by the artist and the printer."--Laid in colophon.
- "The six-color stencil centerpiece collage is by Guy Berard after a photograph of the Thelonious Monk Quartet playing in 1958 at The Five Spot Cafe. Hand stencilled by various hands including Gregory McMurray. Halftone screen from Cathy and the raster-farians at Boxcar Press."--Laid in colophon.
- Printed on St. Armand papers from Monotype Univers.--laid-in advertisement.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 46. Two leaves of publisher's advertisements laid in. No laid-in colophon.
- OCLC:
- 893439020
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