Research Catalog

Title

Three poems / Octavio Paz ; lithographs by Robert Motherwell ; translated by Eliot Weinberger.

Author

Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998.

Publication

[New York] : Limited Editions Club, c1987.

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Additional Authors

• Motherwell, Robert.
• Weinberger, Eliot.
• Limited Editions Club.

Description

[120] p. : mounted ill.; 56 cm.

Alternative Title

Tres poemas.

Note

• Issued also unbound in portfolio (20 copies, 4 artist's proofs) and as suite of the lithographs without text in portfolio (50 copies, 10 artist's proofs). For variations in the lithographs in these issues, cf. Belknap.
• Title page information from 3 successive leaves; facing pages have title page information in Spanish: Tres poemas / Octavio Paz ; litografías por Robert Motherwell ; traducído por Eliot Weinberger.
• Translations previously published in: A draft of shadows and other poems / Octavio Paz. 1979.
• Illustrations: 26 prints on various beige handmade Japanese papers : lithograph, black (1 reddish brown, 1 black and blue, 1 black and yellow ochre, 2 black and red) ; full-page (22) or larger (4) (size of primary support varies). Printed by Trestle Editions, New York, from aluminium plates, canceled after printing; 3 have colored backgrounds printed from linoleum blocks. Drawings for prints accompanying the first poem were made in 1967 as ill. to Rimbaud's Une saison en enfer. One image (Belknap 368) is repeated, with red background from linoleum block, as additional print (Belknap 380), mounted on front cover.
• Binding: Publisher's natural linen. Binding of the edition divided among 4 binders; this copy hand sewn and bound by Kim O'Donnell, Garthe Gaat Bindery, Hadley, Mass. Issued in a case by Portfoliobox, Providence, R.I.

Indexed In (note)

• Belknap, D.C. Prints of Robert Motherwell (1991 ed.)

Contents

Nocturno de San Ildefonso = San Ildefonso nocturne -- Vuelta = Return -- Piel, sonida del mundo = Skin, sound of the world.

Call Number

*KP+++ (Limited) 91-363

OCLC

• 19017855
• NYPG91-B72347

Author

Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998.

Title

Three poems / Octavio Paz ; lithographs by Robert Motherwell ; translated by Eliot Weinberger.

Imprint

[New York] : Limited Editions Club, c1987.

Indexed In:

Belknap, D.C. Prints of Robert Motherwell (1991 ed.), 354-372A, 373-380

Local Note

No. 120 of 750 bound copies, designed by Benjamin Shiff and printed in black (English text) and red (Spanish text) on paper by Cartiere Enrico Magnani. Hand set at Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, Italy; first poem printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress, Hadley, Mass., second poem at Stamperia Valdonega, third poem at Heritage Printers, Charlotte, N.C. Signed in pencil by the poet and initialed in pencil by the artist. There were also 30 artist's proofs; cf. Belknap.

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Added Author

Motherwell, Robert.

Weinberger, Eliot.

Limited Editions Club.

Added Title

Tres poemas.

Research Call Number

*KP+++ (Limited) 91-363