Research Catalog

Title

Our grandmothers / Maya Angelou ; lithographs by John Biggers.

Author

Angelou, Maya.

Publication

[New York] : Limited Editions Club, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Biggers, John Thomas, 1924-2001.
• Carr, Dan, 1951-
• Ferrari, Julia.
• Golgonooza Letter Foundry. cmt
• HMP Paper Mill. ppm
• Jovonis Bindery. bnd
• Keleher, Daniel.
• Limited Editions Club. pbl
• Trestle Editions. pop
• Wild Carrot Letterpress. prt

Description

[27] p. : 5 ill.; 56 cm.

Subjects

• African Americans > Pictorial works
• African Americans > Poetry
• Black author
• Motherhood > Pictorial works
• Livres d'artistes > United States > 20th century
• Grandmothers > Poetry
• Motherhood > Poetry
• African American women > Pictorial works
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Spectrum
• African American artists
• African American women > Poetry

Genre/Form

• African American artists.
• Livres d'artistes – United States – 20th century.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Spectrum.

Note

• "Four hundred copies were printed by Daniel Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress"--Colophon.
• Poem, reprinted from the author's: I shall not be moved. New York : Random House, 1990.
• "Printed on paper made by hand for this book at HMP Paper Mill ... The design is by Dan Carr. The Spectrum types were hand set by Julia Ferrari & Dan Carr at Golgonooza Letter Foundry. The lithographs were printed at Trestle Editions"--Colophon.
• The ill. are full-page lithographs.

Binding (note)

• Publisher's dark red cloth, by the Jovonis Bindery. Issued in dark red cloth-covered clamshell box.

Call Number

Sc Art Biggers

LCCN

2010668336

Author

Angelou, Maya.

Title

Our grandmothers / Maya Angelou ; lithographs by John Biggers.

Imprint

[New York] : Limited Editions Club, c1994.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 341; signed in pencil by Angelou and Biggers.

Binding

Publisher's dark red cloth, by the Jovonis Bindery. Issued in dark red cloth-covered clamshell box.

Local Subject

Black author.

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

United States Massachusetts Hadley.

Added Author

Biggers, John Thomas, 1924-2001. Illustrator

Keleher, Daniel. Printer

Carr, Dan, 1951- Book designer

Ferrari, Julia. Compositor

Limited Editions Club. Publisher

Wild Carrot Letterpress. Printer

Golgonooza Letter Foundry. Compositor

Trestle Editions. Printer of plates

HMP Paper Mill. Papermaker

Jovonis Bindery. Binder

Research Call Number

Sc Art Biggers

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1994 11-148