Research Catalog

Title

Quartet / essays by Lewis Thomas ; etchings by Joseph Goldyne.

Author

Thomas, Lewis, 1913-

Publication

San Francisco : Pacific Editions ; Berkeley : Arif Press, c1986.

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Additional Authors

• Goldyne, Joseph R.
• Arif Press. prt

Description

36, [1] p. : 4 col. ill.; 32 cm.

Subject

• Science > Philosophy
• Biology > Philosophy

Genre/Form

• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Bembo.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Centaur.

Note

• Blank leaf, not counted in collation, precedes colophon.
• Illustrations: 4 prints : aquatint, etching, col. ; full-page (plate mark 19 x 14 cm.). Proofed at Katherine Lincoln Press, San Francisco; edition printed at Robert Townsend, Inc., Georgetown, Mass. Printed on double leaves of dark beige Twinrocker paper. Each signed in pencil.
• Accompanied by an additional print on dark beige paper, signed in pencil, in beige paper portfolio.
• Binding: Publisher's quarter tan morocco and beige paper boards, by Klaus-Ullrich S. Rötzscher; issued with the additional print in brown cloth solander.

Contents

On probability and possibility -- The Tucson Zoo -- Death in the open -- On matters of doubt.

Call Number

*KP+ (Arif) 92-453

LCCN

87165562

OCLC

NYPG93-B2861

Author

Thomas, Lewis, 1913-

Title

Quartet / essays by Lewis Thomas ; etchings by Joseph Goldyne.

Imprint

San Francisco : Pacific Editions ; Berkeley : Arif Press, c1986.

Local Note

165 copies printed in black and brown at the Arif Press on light and dark beige handmade Twinrocker papers from Bembo and Centaur types. "The paper colors, unique to this edition, are called Quartet & Berkeley"--Colophon. No. 75 of 130 offered for sale; signed by the author and the artist.

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Added Author

Goldyne, Joseph R.

Arif Press. Printer

Research Call Number

*KP+ (Arif) 92-453