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Keeping going

Title: Keeping going / poems by Seamus Heaney ; illustrations by Dimitri Hadzi.
Author: Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.
Publication: Concord, N.H. : William B. Ewert, 1993

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP+ (Bow) 95-476	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Not available - Please for assistance.	Text	Restricted use	Rare Books+ 19-407	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

34 unnumbered pages : illustrations; 31 cm.

Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Janson.
Private press books – New Hamphshire – Concord – 1993.

Note

"This first edition of 'Keeping going' has been produced for William B. Ewert, Publisher. It is limited to 250 copies which were designed by Gino Lee, set in Janson type, and printed by hand in the Spring of 1993 at The Bow & Arrow Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fifty roman-numeraled porfolios contain original etchings by Dmitri Hadzi, editioned by Anne Beresford. Each of these copies is printed on Arches Cover and laid into a cloth-covered box. The remaining 200 copies are printed on Mohawk Superfine paper and contain reproductions of the illustrations which were scanned digitally at the Bow & Arrow Press, and printed by photo-offset at The Office of the University Publisher. These volumes are hand-sewn, with copies numbered 1-50 specially cased in boards and copies 51-200 bound in wrappers. The boxes and bindings were executed by Sarah Creighton, Easthampton, Massachusetts. All copies of this edition have been signed by the author, the artist, and the printer."--Colophon
Illustrations: 7 prints : etching, aquatint, b&w (5), black and red (2) ; double-page (3) and full-page (2) or smaller. The 2 smaller prints (in black and red) are on t.p. and on colophon leaf. Editioned by Anne Beresford.
Consists of 13 bifolia and 3 sheets, issued unbound, in paper portfolio and natural cloth solander case by Sarah Creighton, Easthampton, Mass.

Provenance (note)

Copy in Rare Books+ 19-407, inscribed: in graphite, on colophon, "Seamus Heaney", "Dimitri Hadzi", and "Gino Lee".

Binding (note)

Copy in Rare Books+ 19-407 bound in publisher’s grey printed wrappers.

Contents

To a Dutch potter in Ireland : for Sonja Landweer -- Mint -- A sofa in the forties -- Keeping going : for H. H. -- Diptych -- Poet's chair : for Carolyn Mulholland -- An invocation : Hugh MacDiarmid, 1892-1978 -- At Banagher.

Call Number

*KP+ (Bow) 95-476

OCLC

29456234
NYPG95-B6559

Author

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.

Title

Keeping going / poems by Seamus Heaney ; illustrations by Dimitri Hadzi.

Edition

1st ed.

Local Note

Copy in *KP+ (Bow) 95-476 is no. XII; signed in pencil by the poet, the artist and the designer/printer, Gino Lee. Most sheets also numbered XII/L in pencil.

Provenance

Copy in Rare Books+ 19-407, inscribed: in graphite, on colophon, "Seamus Heaney", "Dimitri Hadzi", and "Gino Lee". NN

Local Note

Copy in Rare Books+ 19-407 is no. 118 of 250 copies.

Binding

Copy in Rare Books+ 19-407 bound in publisher’s grey printed wrappers. NN

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Subject

Concord, N.H. : William B. Ewert, 1993, (Cambridge, Mass.: Bow & Arrow Press)

Added Author

Hadzi, Dimitri, 1921-2006, illustrator.

Bow and Arrow Press, printer

William B. Ewert, Publisher, publisher.

Beresford, Anne, 1967- contributor

Research Call Number

*KP+ (Bow) 95-476

Rare Books+ 19-407

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