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The Bread of Days. El Pan De Los Dias Plus: a Copy of Making Books in the Woods
by Beckett, Samuel, translator and Enrique Chagoya, Artist
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- Fine
- Hardcover
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- Condition
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GRASS VALLEY, California, United States
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About This Item
Covelo, California: The Yolla Bolly Press. Fine. 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Notes by Eliot Weinberger and Octavio Paz. Xvi, 123, [2] pp. 12 color etchings by Enrique Chagoya. (Folio) original pictorial cloth with stitched linen spine, linen slipcase. Poems by eleven Mexican poets. Signed at the colophon by Chagoya, Paz, and Weinberger, as issued. One hundred and forty-one copies in the edition, of which one hundred and twenty-one were offered for sale. This copy number 29 of 85 copies in slipcase. Prospectus include, in original publisher's mailing envelope. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Making Books in the Woods: 4to; 10 leaves; printed title on opaque paper endpapers. One thousand copies were printed. The type was set in Bembo by Monotype at M&H Type in San Francisco, and by hand at the Press. Illustrated with photographs of the Press taken by Brian Shea and printed by duotone offset lithography. A description of a distinctive approach to the printing of fine books - in a barn - within the relatively remote confines of Covelo, situated in the Round Valley region of California. .
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- Bookseller
- G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11108
- Title
- The Bread of Days. El Pan De Los Dias Plus: a Copy of Making Books in the Woods
- Author
- Beckett, Samuel, translator and Enrique Chagoya, Artist
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Yolla Bolly Press
- Place of Publication
- Covelo, California
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- POETRY, MEXICO, Latin America, Fine Press, TYPOGRAPHY, Illustrated Books, Getman 32
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G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA
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