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Świat = The world

Title: Świat = The world / Czesław Miłosz ; a sequence of twenty poems in Polish, translated into English by the poet, with an introduction by Helen Vendler and a portrait of the poet in dry-point engraving by Jim Dine.
Author: Miłosz, Czesław.
Publication: San Francisco : Arion Press, 1989.
Supplementary Content: Publisher's description

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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	Rare Books+ 09-1728	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	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Amer. 1989 10-12	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

57, [2] p. : port.; 36 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Jim Dine. (Spencer Coll. copy)

Alternative Title

World.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Livres d'artistes – United States – 20th century.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Ehrhardt (Monotype).

Note

Cover title: The world = Świat.
"Limited to 275 copies, of which 250 are for sale"--Colophon.
"The twenty-ninth publication of the Arion Press ... The type is Ehrhardt, composed in Monotype by M & H Type in San Francisco, California, printed by letterpress at the Arion Press. The intaglio printing for the dry-point engraving by Jim Dine was done by Robert Townsend in Georgetown, Massachusetts. The paper is Curtis Ruysdael. The book was designed and produced under the direction of Andrew Hoyem"--Colophon.
The full-page drypoint port. (plate mark 29 x 20 cm.) is printed with cream Kitikata paper chine collé on white Curtis Ruysdael paper.
"An extra edition of the portrait dry-point engraving ... was printed without chine collé on larger sheets of British handmade paper ... Edition of 20 copies"--Description on publisher's Web site.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 16).

Indexed In (note)

Carpenter, E. Jim Dine prints, 1985-2000

Binding (note)

Publisher's quarter brown cloth and cream handmade paper boards; reduced copy of Dine's port. of Milosz printed in brown on front cover.

Call Number

Rare Books+ 09-1728

LCCN

90181355

OCLC

21580922

Author

Miłosz, Czesław.

Title

Świat = The world / Czesław Miłosz ; a sequence of twenty poems in Polish, translated into English by the poet, with an introduction by Helen Vendler and a portrait of the poet in dry-point engraving by Jim Dine.

Imprint

San Francisco : Arion Press, 1989.

Indexed In:

Carpenter, E. Jim Dine prints, 1985-2000, 168

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is unnumbered; signed by Miłosz on half-title leaf; signed by Dine at end of "Artist's statement," p. [8].

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy accompanied by artist's preliminary drawings on Mylar and an artist's proof of the separate printing of the port., cataloged separately.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 16).

Binding

Publisher's quarter brown cloth and cream handmade paper boards; reduced copy of Dine's port. of Milosz printed in brown on front cover.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy accompanied by preliminary drawings and an artist's proof of the port., cataloged separately.

Spencer Coll. copy: Gift of Jim Dine.

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Publisher's description

Place of Publication

United States California San Francisco.

Added Author

Vendler, Helen, 1933-

Dine, Jim, 1935- Engraver

Arion Press. Printer

Townsend, Robert E. Printer of plates

Hoyem, Andrew. Book designer

Research Call Number

Rare Books+ 09-1728

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1989 10-12

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