Research Catalog

Title

Lobster / Edward Kessler, Bertrand Dorny.

Author

Kessler, Edward, 1927-

Publication

[Boston] ; [Paris] : [Bertrand Dorny], [1994]

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Details

Additional Authors

Dorny, Bertrand, 1931-

Description

10 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly colored); 20 cm

Subjects

• Artists' books
• Artists' books > Boston > Massachusetts > 1994
• Private press books > Boston > Massachusetts > 1994
• Poems
• Accordion fold format (Binding)
• Lobsters > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Artists' books.
• Poems.
• Accordion fold format (Binding)
• Private press books – Boston – Massachusetts – 1994.
• Artists' books – Boston – Massachusetts – 1994.

Note

• Cover title.
• "Lobster is a collage book by Dorny, around an original poem by Edward Kessler. Number ... of ten copies. Boston and Paris via Cape Cod october 1994 [signed by artist and author]"--colophon.
• Printed on one side of a strip formed from joined sheets, folded accordion-style.
• Illustrated throughout with paint and collage, including a coupon for the Frontier restaurant in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts sewn-in at end.

Provenance (note)

• Inscribed: in ink, on colophon, "Dorny, Edward Kessler."

Binding (note)

• Folded accordion-style pages attached to upper pastedown of publisher's blue printed wrapper.

Call Number

Rare Books 19-496

OCLC

904546503

Author

Kessler, Edward, 1927- author.

Title

Lobster / Edward Kessler, Bertrand Dorny.

Imprint

[Boston] ; [Paris] : [Bertrand Dorny], [1994]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Inscribed: in ink, on colophon, "Dorny, Edward Kessler." NN

Binding

Folded accordion-style pages attached to upper pastedown of publisher's blue printed wrapper. NN

Local Note

Copy in Rare Books 19-496 is no. 2 of 10 copies.

Rare Book Division Accession File 1990-1999 (rbk90.ask), Converted September 10, 2006.

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Added Author

Dorny, Bertrand, 1931- ill., publisher.

Research Call Number

Rare Books 19-496