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The signature of all things; poems, songs, elegies, translations, and epigrams.

Title: The signature of all things; poems, songs, elegies, translations, and epigrams.
Author: Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982.
Publication: [New York] New Directions [1949]

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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 (Valdonega) (Rexroth, K. Signature of all things)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Not available - Please for assistance.	Text	Restricted use	Berg Coll 22-1641	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Description

89 p.; 22 cm.

Genre/Form

Dust jackets (Binding). – New York (State) – United States – 20th century.
Slipcases – New York (State) – New York – 1949.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Garamond.
Decorated paper bindings – New York (State) – United States – 20th century.

Note

"A New Directions book" -- title page.
"New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin" -- title page verso.
"This edition was designed by Hans Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, in the month of February MCMXLIX, the type used being Garamond, the edition consists of fifteen hundred copies, unnumbered, on Veneto paper, and fifty copies on Fabriano paper which are signed by the author." -- colophon.

Indexed In (note)

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

Binding (note)

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1641 bound in publishers' green printed paper boards; with original dust jacket designed by Hans Mardersteig; printed on Fabriano paper; with green paper slipcase with pasted on label with orange lettering : "one of the fifty copies on Fabriano paper signed by the author. $7.50".

Call Number

*KP (Valdonega) (Rexroth, K. Signature of all things)

OCLC

7940680

Author

Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982.

Title

The signature of all things; poems, songs, elegies, translations, and epigrams.

Imprint

[New York] New Directions [1949]

Indexed In:

Carruth, H. New Directions reader, page 237

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 28

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1641 bound in publishers' green printed paper boards; with original dust jacket designed by Hans Mardersteig; printed on Fabriano paper; with green paper slipcase with pasted on label with orange lettering : "one of the fifty copies on Fabriano paper signed by the author. $7.50". NN

Local Note

Copy in *KP (Valdonega) (Rexroth, K. Signature of all things) is Number 40.

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1641 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Copy in Berg Coll 22-1641 lacks signature.

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Added Author

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Mardersteig, Giovanni, 1892-1977, bookjacket designer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-1641

*KP (Valdonega) (Rexroth, K. Signature of all things)

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