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The phoenix and the tortoise

Title: The phoenix and the tortoise [by] Kenneth Rexroth.
Author: Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982.
Publication: Norfolk, Conn., New Directions [1944]

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Description

100 pages, 1 leaf; 24 cm

Subjects

Genre/Form

Poetry.
Dust jackets – New York (State) – New York – 1944.
Dust jackets (Binding). – New York – United States – 20th century.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Granjon.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Trajan.

Note

Poems.
"New Directions" -- title page.
"New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin" -- title page verso.
"The Phoenix and the Tortoise was printed by Peter Beilenson at the Walpole Printing office in Mount Vernon, New York, in July, MCMXLIV, the types used were Granjon and Trajan" -- colophon.

Indexed In (note)

Carruth, H. New Directions reader
Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Binding (note)

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1638 bound in publishers' orange cloth over boards; with original dust jacket.

Call Number

NBI (Rexroth, K. Phoenix and the tortoise)

LCCN

44009924

OCLC

250022

Author

Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982.

Title

The phoenix and the tortoise [by] Kenneth Rexroth.

Imprint

Norfolk, Conn., New Directions [1944]

Indexed In:

Carruth, H. New Directions reader, page 237

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 13

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1638 bound in publishers' orange cloth over boards; with original dust jacket. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1638 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Added Author

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Beilenson, Peter, 1905-1962, printer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Walpole Printing Office, printer.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

NBI (Rexroth, K. Phoenix and the tortoise)

Berg Coll 22-1638

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