(McCurdy, Michael) Kessler, Milton WOODLAWN NORTH: A BOOK OF POEMS.
(Boston) Impressions Workshop (1970) 4to. cloth unpaginated Limited to 125 numbered copies. This copy is a printer's proof. A collection of poetry by Kessler (1930-2000), American poet and Professor of English at Binghamton University. Preface by Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), American poet and short story writer. Etchings executed and printed by Robert Marx. Designed, handset in Garamond, and printed on Velke Losiny (a Czech handmade paper) by Michael McCurdy. Handbound in cloth by Ivan Ruzicka. Signed by the poet, Marx, and McCurdy on colophon. Price: $ 1,200.00
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Order nr. 114887
(Penmaen Press) GENESIS.
(Boston The Pendle Press 1967) folio. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards 6 pages Limited to 20 copies (Peich 1). McCurdy's first published work. The 2nd and 3rd chapters of the book of Genesis in the Old Testament of the Bible. Bound in quarter blue patterned cloth and light blue-gray Fabriano paper boards. Handprinted on double-fold Japanese Masa paper by McCurdy. Pendle Press on colophon. The press's name was changed to Hillside Press, then the Penmaen Press, when McCurdy found other printers using the same names (Finding Aid, Penmaen Press records, Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs). Broadside "An Introductory Comment as to the Aims & Aspirations of the Hillside Press" laid in. Very rare. Also present is another version of this broadside in a different typographic arrangment with a pencil note that states that this version was not used. Cloth portion of boards stained. Paper portion of boards lightly faded at edges. Price: $ 2,000.00
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Order nr. 114862
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