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Poet's whimsical and fantastic illustrations of human figures, and his use of the metaphor of falling, combines to describe the terror of the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers.
Volume 1 contains fourteen poems and twenty-one color copper-plate etchings. Edition of 110 copies. Volume 2 contains twenty unbound color copper-plate etchings plus one actual copper plate. Edition of 20 copies.
"Deluxe Edition" [i.e., volume 2] includes: "A second casing enclosing the following: A complete extra suite of etchings [21 in number], printed in color on 11 x 14 sheets of a cotton & abaca blend handmade paper with full deckle (the same blend used in the bound edition). An original copper plate of one of the twenty-one etchings in the book. A preparatory monotype. The Deluxe Edition is limited to 15 sets including those paired with Making Copies"--Prospectus.
Rare Book copy, volume 1: On colophon: Signed by the author in pencil and numbered "9."
Rare Book copy, volume 2: 21 etchings, the first is numbered ix/xii, the rest are signed and numbered ix/xx.
Issued in a steel fall-back boxes covered with gray paper; title lettered in silver on spines. Cases lined in light blue paper.
Volume 1: On colophon: Copper-plate etchings were printed by Michael Kuch & by Arthur Larson under the artist's tutelage. Arthur Larson ... achieved the letterpress. David Wolfe of Wolfe Editions cast & set the fourteen point Emerson type designed in nineteen thirty by the New Yorker, Joseph Blumenthal. The titles were set by hand from vintage monotype which once belonged to Blumenthal & is now housed at the Books Arts Workshop at Dartmouth College. The paper is an abaca & cotton blend handmade for this project by Shannon Brock; Barry Spence achieved the edition of a hundred plus ten hors commerce.
Volume 1: Title and authorship statement on t.p. printed horizontally, in calendar style.
Volume 1: Sewn; tied with white cord. Exposed sewing; four-hole stab binding. Front cover board covered with blue and metal-dried gray papers; center inset of light blue and white paper horizontal columns. Back cover board covered with gray paper. Light blue front and back paste-down endpapers. Half-title page printed in red. Text and engravings printed on abaca & cotton blend handmade paper; translucent sheets made from beaten natural-abaca pulp faces each engraving.
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