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On Returning. Signed limited edition, with broadside. "A great dark beast/ holds the moon hostage."
by [Poetry]. SCHANILEC, Gaylord
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Saint Paul, [Minnesota]: Hand-printed at Midnight Paper Sales Press, 1981. First edition, limited to 70 copies of which this is no. 62, signed "Gaylord" at the colophon. 16mo (approx. 6" x 4¾"), three unbound sheets folded once vertically forming 12 unnumbered pages plus plain grey end sheets, laid-in to blue pictorial wraps decorated with a diminutive Schanilec woodcut. The title page features a woodcut printed from a magnesium plate. Additionally laid-in is a small, laser-printed broadside, the opening line reading "The Ninth section of Thomas McGrath's epic poem…," apparently one of approximately 20 examples which were not included in copies issued prior to 1991. Rulon-Miller/ Quarter to Midnight A.43.
A fine copy.
As described in Rulon-Miller's bibliography, "On Returning was about GS's return to poetry." As Schanilec himslf writes (as published in the bibliography), "One day, however, I thought I might give poetry another try, and I wrote a poem about it called On Returning in which I claim to have learned to recognize Thomas McGrath's tracks. I printed the poem into a little book and sent him a copy. He replied with a polite note thanking me for the "mysterious" little book, and that was that."
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Details
- Seller
- Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 1586
- Title
- On Returning. Signed limited edition, with broadside. "A great dark beast/ holds the moon hostage."
- Author
- [Poetry]. SCHANILEC, Gaylord
- Illustrator
- Gaylord Schanilec
- Format/Binding
- Unbound sheets
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, limited to 70 signed copies
- Publisher
- Midnight Paper Sales Press
- Place of Publication
- Saint Paul, [Minnesota]
- Date Published
- 1981
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry, Fine Press, Gaylord Schanilec, Thomas McGrath, Midnight Paper Sales, Saint Paul, Minnesota
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature, Fiction, Poetry; Printing, Typography, Fine Press;
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
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