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The view
- Title
- The view / Czeslaw Milosz ; mezzotints by Vija Celmins.
- Author
- Miłosz, Czesław.
- Publication
- New York : Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, c1985.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | By appointment only | Spencer Coll. Amer. 1985 92-60 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Description
- [32] p. : ill.; 39 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections. English. 1985
- Alternative Title
- Works. 1985
- Note
- Blank leaf between p. [23] and [24], not counted in collation.
- The three poems, translated by the author and Lilian Vallee, are reprinted from Bells in winter, 1978. "Notes and inscripts," translated by the author and Robert Hass, was first published in Ironwood 24 (1984).
- Illustrations: 6 prints : mezzotint, b&w ; full-page (plate mark 21 x 24 cm.) or smaller. Printed by Doris Similink, Los Angeles, Calif. on 4 double leaves of Rives BFK paper.
- Additional full-page ill., "The Copernican view of the universe from Nicholas Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (Nuremberg, 1543) ... [was] printed letterpress by Meriden-Stinehour Press"--Colophon.
- Binding: Publisher's quarter black leather and gray Twinrocker paper boards, by George Wieck of Moroquain Binder, Hopewell Junction, N.Y.; issued in slipcase.
- Contents
- The view -- Ars poetica? -- Notes and inscripts -- Tidings.
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Amer. 1985 92-60
- LCCN
- 86137733
- OCLC
- NYPG92-B16924
- Author
- Miłosz, Czesław.
- Title
- The view / Czeslaw Milosz ; mezzotints by Vija Celmins.
- Imprint
- New York : Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, c1985.
- Local Note
- 120 copies designed by Eleanor Caponigro and printed by Meriden-Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vt., on paper made for this edition by Twinrocker Handmade Paper, Brookston, Ind. Spencer Coll. copy "printed for Jane Timken"; signed by the author and the artist.Gift of Jane M. Timken, 1989.
- Local Subject
- Timken, Jane M. Provenance.
- Added Author
- Celmins, Vija, 1938-Vallee, Lilian.Wieck, George. Binder
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Amer. 1985 92-60