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Games of chance

Title: Games of chance / Thom Gunn ; with an etching by John Thein.
Author: Gunn, Thom.
Publication: [Omaha] : Abattoir Editions, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1979

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll Gunn G36 1979	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP (Abattoir) 85-87b	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP (Abattoir) 85-87a	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

39 p. : ill.; 18 cm.

Genre/Form

Limitation statements (Publishing).
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Walbaum.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Romulus Open.
Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance).

Note

Poems.
"This is copy ... of an edition of two hundred and twenty, printed by Harry Duncan and Mark Watson in The University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Fine Arts, spring 1979, on J. Barcham Green paper, from Walbaum type with Romulus Open initials and from the copperplate etched and wiped by the artist."--Colophon.
Bound in linen cloth over boards with printed paper label on front cover, wrapped onto spine.

Indexed In (note)

Center for Book Arts : the first decade

Provenance (note)

Berg Coll. copy inscribed: "for Bob Wilson, Thom Gunn, 1986"--t.p.

Contents

Bally Power Play -- Elegy -- New York -- Adultery -- The conversation -- Expression -- Selves -- As expected -- A waking dream -- The exercise -- Hide and seek.

Call Number

*KP (Abattoir) 85-87a

LCCN

81483202

OCLC

8176603
NYPG85-B28010

Author

Gunn, Thom.

Title

Games of chance / Thom Gunn ; with an etching by John Thein.

Imprint

[Omaha] : Abattoir Editions, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1979 (Omaha : Harry Duncan and Mark Watson).

Indexed In:

Center for Book Arts : the first decade, 23

Provenance

Berg Coll. copy inscribed: "for Bob Wilson, Thom Gunn, 1986"--t.p.

Local Note

Berg Coll. copy is no. 021.

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Added Author

Thein, John. Illustrator

Duncan, Harry. Printer

Abattoir Editions. Publisher

Gunn, Thom. Inscriber

Wilson, Robert A. (Robert Alfred), 1922-2016. Former owner

Research Call Number

*KP (Abattoir) 85-87a Library has: No. 132 of 220.

*KP (Abattoir) 85-87b Library has: No. 203 of 220.

Berg Coll Gunn G36 1979

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