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5 engraved woodblock color prints hand-pulled on Chinese rice paper
- Title
- 5 engraved woodblock color prints hand-pulled on Chinese rice paper / by Ian Hugo ; with preface to This hunger, a book by Anais Nin, which these prints illustrate.
- Author
- Hugo, Ian, 1898-1985.
- Publication
- New York : Gemor Press, 1945.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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. 1945 13-1 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Description
- 7 folded sheets ([9] leaves) : 5 mounted col. ill., facsim.; 28 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Five engraved woodblock color prints hand-pulled on Chinese rice paper
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Wooden bindings (Binding) – United States – 20th century.
- Note
- "Forty numbered and signed copies printed on Chinese rice paper have been made of this portfolio. Design, typography and printing by the Gemor Press, New York, June 1945"--Colophon.
- Four of these prints were published in September, 1945, in: This hunger--/ Anaïs Nin ; with five woodblocks by Ian Hugo (New York : Gemor Press).
- Nin's preface is a facsim. of her holograph, signed and dated June 1945.
- Consists of 7 bifolia, 5 of which contain the prints tipped onto 2nd recto and are otherwise blank. The facsim. of Nin's preface is on a bifolium folded at top edge, with a small ill.; remaining bifolium contains t.p. and colophon and is folded around the others to serve as paper covers.
- Indexed In (note)
- Franklin, B. Nin
- Binding (note)
- Issued unbound, inserted loose in wooden boards covered in wood veneer paper, fastened at spine with a green straw tie. An additional small colored woodcut is mounted on front cover.
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Amer. 1945 13-1
- OCLC
- 926860
- Author
- Hugo, Ian, 1898-1985.
- Title
- 5 engraved woodblock color prints hand-pulled on Chinese rice paper / by Ian Hugo ; with preface to This hunger, a book by Anais Nin, which these prints illustrate.
- Imprint
- New York : Gemor Press, 1945.
- Indexed In:
- Franklin, B. Nin, B4
- Local Note
- Spencer Coll. copy: Each print is numbered 26/40 and signed in pencil by Hugo.
- Binding
- Issued unbound, inserted loose in wooden boards covered in wood veneer paper, fastened at spine with a green straw tie. An additional small colored woodcut is mounted on front cover.
- Place of Publication
- United States New York (State) New York.
- Added Author
- Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977. This hunger. Preface.Gemor Press. Publisher
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Amer. 1945 13-1