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The plain of smokes : a poem cycle
- Title
- The plain of smokes : a poem cycle / by Harvey Mudd ; original serigraph prints by Ken Price.
- Author
- Mudd, Harvey, 1940-
- Publication
- Santa Barbara [Calif.] : Arabesque Books, 1981.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. 1981 92-90 | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Description
- [19] folded sheets (73, [3] p.); 38 cm. +
- Subjects
- Note
- Prints are reproductions of pencil drawings, watercolor paintings and gouaches, printed in up to 28 colors and/or 4 shades of gray. Cf. "A note on the printing" on folded sheet ([4] p. ; 20 cm.) laid in.
- Issued unbound, in a case covered with col. map of Los Angeles, in an orange raw silk covered slipcase (41 cm.) by Earle Gray, Los Angeles.
- Contents
- True record -- Lines written after a visit to Los Angeles -- Philip Marlowe, where are you? -- Searching for the queen of angels.
- Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Amer. 1981 92-90
- OCLC
- 7660454
- NYPG92-B28172
- Author
- Mudd, Harvey, 1940-
- Title
- The plain of smokes : a poem cycle / by Harvey Mudd ; original serigraph prints by Ken Price.
- Imprint
- Santa Barbara [Calif.] : Arabesque Books, 1981.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Local Note
- 186 copies designed by Barbara Martin and printed by Richard Jimenez, Santa Barbara (text, in black, orange, dark red, blue yellow and green) and Gary Lichtenstein, San Francisco (prints), including 150 numbered in arabic accompanied by 20 prints, constituting the "regular edition." No. 108 of 120 offered for sale; signed by the poet and the artist. Remaining 36 copies ("deluxe edition" and "collaborators' copies") were accompanied by 30 prints.Each print bears the blind stamp of the artist, the printer and the publisher; 2 prints are numbered 108/150, signed and dated '81 in pencil by the artist.
- Added Author
- Price, Kenneth, 1935-2012.Lichtenstein, Gary, printer of plates.Gray, Earle. Binder
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Amer. 1981 92-90