Ephemera.
by [Blue Heron Press] Robert Pinsky
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hoover, Alabama, United States
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About This Item
Avoca, Nebraska:: Blue Heron Press,, 2009.. Edition of 50. 6.25 x 10.25" closed, 10 x 42" extended; 12 pages. Accordion structure with gatefold center spread. Text letterpress printed in Cochin 11 point. Line drawing from photopolymer plates printed letterpress on a Vandercook 320.Woodcuts printed from birch blocks on a Takach etching press onto Japanese Nishinouchi paper. Bound into covered boards with decorative woodcut-printed paper and end sheets, and with a goatskin spine. Blue Heron Press: "In words and images, micro-to-macroscopic layers of poignant meaning and memory are an intimately held and transient wonder, just as light melds recto and verso printing into one light-born envelope.Intimations are caught and lost in the act of reading, viewing, meditating, immersing. A fortuitous invitation from Longwood University, Virginia, pairs Robert Pinsky (Poet Laureate 1997-2000) and book artist Karen Kunc.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18507
- Title
- Ephemera.
- Author
- [Blue Heron Press] Robert Pinsky
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition of 50
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blue Heron Press,
- Place of Publication
- Avoca, Nebraska:
- Date Published
- 2009.
- Keywords
- Artists' Books Artists' Books Poetry Poet Laureate Ohio State Graduate
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Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC
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Hoover, Alabama
About Vamp & Tramp, Booksellers, LLC
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Goatskin
- Goatskin, leather made from goat, is durable and easy to dye. The original and finest examples of Morocco binding are goatskin....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.