Research Catalog

Title

Roadkills : a collection of prose and poetry / by John McPhee ... [et al.] ; etching and wood engravings by Alan James Robinson.

Publication

Easthampton, Mass. : Cheloniidae Press, 1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McPhee, John A.
• Robinson, Alan James.
• Parrot, Gray.

Description

[22] leaves : ill.; 31 cm. +

Alternative Title

Road kills.

Subject

• Animals > Poetry
• Animals in art
• American poetry > 20th century

Note

• Contribution by McPhee in prose, others in verse.
• Title on spine: Road kills.
• Leaves [1-2] are printed on both sides.
• Illustrations: 12 prints : etching (1), wood-engraving (11), black on beige ; full-page (10) (image 16 x 11 cm. or smaller), plate mark 10 x 13 cm. (t.p. vignette), image 5 x 6 cm. (vignette in colophon). Etching printed by the artist at Cheloniidae Press. Full-page ill. printed on light beige Cha-u-ke paper; inscribed in pencil: "Night shining eyes" and "Roadkill #1[-9]." -- Accompanied by a suite comprising the etching on sheet of Sakomoto, signed in pencil, and the 11 wood engravings on 6 sheets (5 folded) of Cha-u-ke, signed in pencil: Alan.
• Leaf [2] has blind-impressed image (tire tracks), repeated on spine of book and case.
• Binding: Publisher's quarter gray morocco and black paper boards, by E. Gray Parrot; issued with the portfolio (black cloth) in a quarter gray morocco and black cloth case.

Contents

From Travels in Georgia / John McPhee -- State line / Gillian Conoley -- The dead by the side of the road / Gary Snyder -- Census of animal bodies : driving home / Madeline DeFrees -- Traveling through the dark / William Stafford -- On a squirrel crossing the road in autumn, in New England / Richard Eberhart.

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1981 92-67

OCLC

• 13532829
• NYPG92-B20345

Title

Roadkills : a collection of prose and poetry / by John McPhee ... [et al.] ; etching and wood engravings by Alan James Robinson.

Imprint

Easthampton, Mass. : Cheloniidae Press, 1981.

Local Note

300 copies printed in red and black on light beige Sakomoto paper (t.p. and colophon leaf) and Mulberry paper (text) at the Hampshire Typothetae, Northampton, Mass. No. XXVI of 50 copies comprising the "deluxe edition," issued with an additional suite of the prints; signed in pencil by the artist and the authors.

Added Author

McPhee, John A.

Robinson, Alan James.

Parrot, Gray. Binder

Added Title

Road kills.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1981 92-67