Accession number
PML 186699
Creator
Cavalcanti, Guido, -1300.
Published
[New York, N.Y.] : New Directions, ©1966.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First edition in this form, copies for sale in the United States. Cf. Gallup.
"This edition ... was printed in Dante type on the hand-press of the Officina Bodoni, Verona, for James Laughlin, Faber and Faber, Vanni Scheiwiller and Giovanni Mardersteig. The edition consists of 190 copies on Pescia paper of which numbers 1 to 115 are for sale in the United States, numbers 116 to 165 in Great Britain and numbers 166 to 190 in Italy; ten copies on Japanese paper are marked with the letters A to J. All copies are signed by the author. May MDCCCCLXVI"--Colophon.
Library's copy is number 50.
Library's copy missing dust jacket.
"This edition ... was printed in Dante type on the hand-press of the Officina Bodoni, Verona, for James Laughlin, Faber and Faber, Vanni Scheiwiller and Giovanni Mardersteig. The edition consists of 190 copies on Pescia paper of which numbers 1 to 115 are for sale in the United States, numbers 116 to 165 in Great Britain and numbers 166 to 190 in Italy; ten copies on Japanese paper are marked with the letters A to J. All copies are signed by the author. May MDCCCCLXVI"--Colophon.
Library's copy is number 50.
Library's copy missing dust jacket.
Description
105 pages ; 30 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by the author in ink below colophon as issued.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Yellow paper boards backed in white parchment boards and lettered in gold on front cover, housed in original gray slipcase with white printed label on side.
Classification
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