1978. · Baltimore
by Snodgrass, W. D.
Baltimore: Charles Seluzicki, 1978.. Quarto. Decorative stiff wrappers. Decorations cut by Dorian McGowan. A vertical strip of offsetting to the lower wrapper, otherwise very good, with the folded prospectus laid in. First edition. Copy #215 of 300 numbered copies (of which 15 were hors commerce), all signed by Snodgrass. Printed at The Janus Press in Newark, Vermont, by Claire Van Vliet and Victoria Fraser. The text was set in twelve point Times Roman by Jim Houle at the Winter Harbor Press in Biddeford, Maine. The paper is Mohawk Superfine with Strathmore end sheet and Zaan cover. In addition to the prospectus, laid in is a 4pp. quarto separate specimen printing of the title, a page of text, and a page from the afterword. A translation into English of eleven songs each accompanied by music written for guitar. Although nowhere physically denoted, one of the author's own copies. (Inventory #: WRCLIT77648)