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Ligeia : a libretto

Title: Ligeia : a libretto / Robert Creeley ; set design sketch by Alex Katz.
Author: Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005.
Publication: New York City : Granary Books, 1996

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Request Appointment Not available - Please for assistance.	Text	Restricted use	Rare Books+ 20-628	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
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Description

[33] p. : ill.; 34 cm.

Subjects

Privately published books > New York (State) > New York > 1996
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849 > Ligeia > Adaptations
Operas > Librettos

Genre/Form

Privately published books – New York (State) – New York – 1996.

Note

Creeley completed this work in summer 1992. "The provocation had been a younger [unnamed] composer's interest to complete a triad of Poe's works, and our incidental meeting led to my working in this altogether unanticipated way, so as to provide the final third of his required texts." Cf. R. Creeley, introductory note, in A.R. Thomas. Ligeia / libretto by Leslie Dunton-Downer ; music by Augusta Read Thomas ..., c1994, p. 4-5.
This work first appeared in TO magazine, Summer 1995. Cf. colophon.
Based on Edgar Allen Poe's short story, Ligeia, originally published in American museum in 1838.
Designed and printed by Phillip Gallo at the Hermetic Press.
"A note on Ligeia": [2] p., laid in.
Edition limited to 135 copies.

Provenance (note)

Copy in Rare Books+ 20-628, inscribed: in graphite, on colophon, "Robert Creeley" and "Alex Katz."

Binding (note)

Copy in Rare Books+ 20-628 bound in publisher’s black cloth boards with paper illustration laid on upper board.

Call Number

JPG 97-1

ISBN

1887123113

OCLC

36081616

Author

Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005.

Title

Ligeia : a libretto / Robert Creeley ; set design sketch by Alex Katz.

Imprint

New York City : Granary Books, 1996 ([Minneapolis : Hermetic Press)

Local Note

Copy JPG 97-1 is no. 115--signed by the author and illustrator.

Provenance

Copy in Rare Books+ 20-628, inscribed: in graphite, on colophon, "Robert Creeley" and "Alex Katz." NN

Local Note

Copy in Rare Books+ 20-628 is no. 113 of 135 copies.

Binding

Copy in Rare Books+ 20-628 bound in publisher’s black cloth boards with paper illustration laid on upper board. NN

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Added Author

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Ligeia.

Katz, Alex, 1927- illustrator.

Gallo, Philip, book designer.

Hermetic Press, printer.

Granary Books (Firm) publisher.

Research Call Number

JPG 97-1

Rare Books+ 20-628

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