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Gardencourt / Frederick Smock.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Larkspur Press 61
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smock, Frederick, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Authors, American--Kentucky--Louisville.
- Authors, American.
- Poets, American--Kentucky.
- Poets, American.
- poetry.
- Kentucky.
- Kentucky--Louisville.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- fine press books.
- Artists' books -- 1997.
- letterpress printing.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Joanna.
- Physical Description:
- 42 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Monterey, Kentucky : Larkspur Press, 1997.
- Contents:
- Doves on the Ohio
- The old cottage
- Swallowfield
- The ginkgo tree
- Necker island
- Under moonlight
- Gardencourt
- Callimachus (I)
- Duende
- Mojo
- Exam
- Letter to an ex-student
- Cinquains
- The garret
- Doves, Portugal
- Incident from the life of Mandelstam
- The Wu-Hsein scholar of the Ohio valley
- Couplet
- Dream Lake
- Dusk
- The old house.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- "This book was handset in Eric Gill's Joanna type and printed on a hand-fed C&P. 450 copies were printed on Mohawk Letterpress paper and cloth bound. 50 copies were printed on dampened Johannot and handbound by Carolyn Whitesel. The illustrations are from woodcuts by Laura Lee Cundiff. Design, composition, presswork, folding & collating by Leslie Shane and Gray Zeitz at Larkspur Press"--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Larkspur Press 61: Presented to the Penn Libraries by Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck in 2018. Edition number 431. With dust jacket.
- OCLC:
- 37786661
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