Copper Canyon Press (15 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used.

Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books.

Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books.

Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books.

Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books.

Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books.

Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books.

Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books.

Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books.

Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books.

Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books.

Condition: Good. 8vo. [16] pp., illus. Lists works by Thomas McGrath, Olga Broumas, Emily Warn, Madeline DeFrees, Jim Heynen, Mark Halperin, et al. Very good in wraps.

Condition: Good. Single page autographed, typewritten letter on letterhead. Very Good. Minor creasing. From the estate of Peter B. Howard, owner of Serendipity Books, Berkeley, CA.

Condition: Good. One folded sheet [1] leaf. Also lists recent publications by Denise Levertov, William Stafford, Gary Snyder and Robin Morgan. Very good, folded. This is a prospectus for a book, not the book itself.

Condition: Near Fine. dj. First editions. From the library of the poet, Cheryl Van Dyke. This lot of three items includes a likely unique calligraphic manuscript (executed and produced as a fine hand-made single-poem book), a chapbook with pre-publication design proofs, and an early Copper Canyon letterpress broadside. Together, these items trace a lovely collaboration between poet Cheryl Van Dyke and designer Tree Swenson during the most prolific years of Copper Canyon Press. -Item #1: DIANA. [Port Townsend, WA]: Winter Solstice, 1980. Original Calligraphic Manuscript. [12]pp. Quarto [32cm x 25cm / 12.5" x 9.75"]. Hand-sewn in original black fine paper wrappers. The front cover is embellished with a hand-drawn illustration of a stylized eclipse design in gold calligraphy. The internal text is calligraphed in white and gold on midnight-blue fine paper. Collation: [1-2] blank; [3] title page featuring the author's name, poem title, and a decorative illustration in white and gold; [4] blank; [5-10] poem text executed in white calligraphy; [11] blank; [12] colophon reading: "Calligraphy completed on the Winter Solstice of 1980 by Tree," accompanied by a small calligraphic square device (mark). In Near Fine condition with only minor sporadic spotting and light rubbing to covers. An exceptional, likely unique artifact. A significant, likely unique manuscript by Tree Swenson, co-founder and designer of Copper Canyon Press; produced for and presumably presented to the poet Cheryl Van Dyke. Swenson displays her mastery of a calligraphic hand in executing the poem, "Diana," by Cheryl Van Dyke. This manuscript, dated on the Winter Solstice of 1980, is a beautiful formal and thematic rendering of the poem. The use of black and midnight-blue papers with white and gold illumination suggests a thematic alignment with the solstice date of its completion as well as the astrological, constellational, and mythological references of the poem. While Swenson's typography defined the visual identity of the Pacific Northwest poetry renaissance of this period, this item represents a primary, hand-rendered document devoid of mechanical reproduction, making it an important piece of regional literary heritage, offering a unique counterpoint to the era's celebrated fine-press output. A beautiful and elegant work. -Item #2: CHEAT GRASS: A COPPERHEAD CHAPBOOK. [Port Townsend, WA]: Copper Canyon Press, 1975. First Edition. [24]pp. Quarto [25.5cm]. Original letterpress-printed wrappers, string-sewn. Colophon states: "Designed and printed by Tree Swenson and Sam Hamill at Copperhead. The text is 70 lb. Curtis Tweedweave. The type is hand-set 14 point Centaur. Illustrations by Cheryl Van Dyke." Unsigned/unnumbered, as issued. With the accompanying material: two folded sheets, laid in-presumably pre-publication design proofs; one of the illustration by itself, and another of the cover/title page (which are designed in exactly the same way). A Near Fine copy with only some light fading to the cover near the spine. An early and essential title from the foundational years of Copper Canyon Press in Port Townsend. Published as part of the "Copperhead" series. "Cheryl Van Dyke has had poems in Kayak, Paintbrush, Port Townsend Journal, and in other periodicals. Cheat Grass is her first published collection." -Item #3: KUHN SPIT. [Port Townsend, WA]: Copper Canyon Press, 1976. Broadside [36.5cm x 26cm / 14.5" x 10.25"]. Letterpress-printed in three colors on light brown paper. Comprising the title, thirty-three lines of verse in four stanzas, and a stylized printed illustration. Unsigned/unnumbered, as issued. Near Fine condition with a light bump and soft crease at the top right corner. This poetry broadside was published in 1976, shortly after the release of Van Dyke's chapbook Cheat Grass. Like most ephemeral productions from Copper Canyon Press during its early Port Townsend years, it was likely designed and printed by Tree Swenson and Sam Hamill. Clean, lovely letterpress work on high-quality paper. From. Signed.…