Accession number
PML 198546
Creator
Snodgrass, W. D. (William De Witt), 1926-2009, author.
Published
Concord, N.H. : William B. Ewert, Publisher, 1990.
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe, Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2020.
Notes
Reproduced from calligraphy by R.P. Hale.
At end of text: W.D. Snodgrass.
Title and author statement printed in red, text and colophon in black, on thick white paper.
First line: When you're wearing a big, broad sombrero.
"286 copies of this first edition were printed in December, 1990, for private distribution. Of these, 36 copies, on special paper, are signed by the author and the calligrapher."--Colophon.
Library's copy one of 250 on ordinary paper.
At end of text: W.D. Snodgrass.
Title and author statement printed in red, text and colophon in black, on thick white paper.
First line: When you're wearing a big, broad sombrero.
"286 copies of this first edition were printed in December, 1990, for private distribution. Of these, 36 copies, on special paper, are signed by the author and the calligrapher."--Colophon.
Library's copy one of 250 on ordinary paper.
Description
1 sheet ; 44 x 21.5 cm, folded to 14.7 x 21.6 cm + 1 envelope (15.3 x 23 cm)
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at bottom of sheet in red ink: "for Gwendolyn Brooks, admiringly, W.D. Snodgrass." The original envelope is addressed by Snodgrass to Gwendolyn Brooks c/o The Contemporary Forum.
Provenance
From the library of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Classification
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