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My mother, in memory

Title: My mother, in memory / Richard Ford ; with an original linecut by Russell Chatham.
Author: Ford, Richard, 1944-
Publication: Elmwood, Conn. : Raven Editions, 1988.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
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 (Raven) 08-382	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll Ford, R M96 1988	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Description

43, [1] p. : port.; 23 cm.

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Genre/Form

Limitation statements (Publishing)
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Bodoni Book (Monotype)
Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Note

"Limited to 140 copies: numbered copies 1-100 are hand sewn and glued into Japanese dyed paper wrappers; 26 copies lettered A-Z are hand bound in the same paper over boards; and 14 presentation copies hors commerce are hand bound in quarter leather with decorated paste-paper over boards ... All copies are signed by the author and the artist"--Colophon.
"A slightly abridged version of this work first appeared in Harper's"--T.p. verso.
"Designed and printed letterpress at Warwick Press by Carol J. Blinn, who also bound the numbered copies and made the decorated paste-paper. The typeface is Monotype Bodoni Book set by Othmar Peters at Mackenzie-Harris Corporation; the paper is Mohawk Superfine; and the paper over boards and special quarter-leather bindings were done by Sarah Creighton"--Colophon.

Source (note)

of Joshua Steiner

Binding (note)

Numbered copies: Issued in gray Japanese paper wrappers; mauve paper spine label.

Call Number

*KP (Raven) 08-382

LCCN

88060370

OCLC

18825899

Author

Ford, Richard, 1944-

Title

My mother, in memory / Richard Ford ; with an original linecut by Russell Chatham.

Imprint

Elmwood, Conn. : Raven Editions, 1988.

Local Note

Copy in *KP (Raven) is no. 75; signed by the author only.

Berg Coll. copy is lettered B; signed by the author only.

Binding

Numbered copies: Issued in gray Japanese paper wrappers; mauve paper spine label.

Local Note

Copy in *KP (Raven) is accompanied by prospectus ([2] p.).

Source

Berg Coll. copy: Gift of Joshua Steiner, June 2004.

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Added Author

Chatham, Russell. Illustrator

Blinn, Carol J. Printer

Peters, Othmar. Typographer

Creighton, Sarah. Binder

Steiner, Joshua. Donor NN-BGC

Raven Editions. Publisher

Warwick Press. Printer

Mackenzie-Harris Corporation. Compositor

Research Call Number

*KP (Raven) 08-382

Berg Coll Ford, R M96 1988

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