Manhattan an elegy and other poems . Woodcuts by Margaret Sunday

Clampitt, Amy

Published by University of Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City, 1990

About this Item

Edition limited to 130 numbered copies and 10 unnumbered proofs (this, copy no. 124), all of which are signed by both the artist and the author; folio, pp. [60]; illustrated throughout; fine in original illustrated paper-covered boards designed by Pamela Spitzmueller; printed on heavy French mouldmade paper by Kim Merker and Don Howell, with assistants. Nice copy from the library of Kim Merker. This is the "second in a series of livres d'artistes published by the University of Iowa Center for the Book" (p. [9]). "Overcoming the challenges of printing this book was difficult. It was like putting a jigsaw puzzle together. It was great fun to do, but it was a bear." Printing and the Mind of Merker, 95.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Manhattan an elegy and other poems . Woodcuts by Margaret Sunday
• Publisher: University of Iowa Center for the Book, Iowa City
• Publication Date: 1990
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Literature
  • Poetry
  • Press Books