Research Catalog

Title

The whip / by Robert Creeley.

Author

Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005.

Publication

[Worcester, Eng.] : Migrant Books, 1957

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Details

Additional Authors

• Alcover, Mossèn.
• Laubiès, René, 1924-.

Description

[49] p.; 17 cm.

Genre/Form

• Limitation statements (Publishing).
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Mercedes.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Futura.
• Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance).
• Authors' copies (Provenance).

Note

• Poems.
• 100 copies bound in cloth over boards with t.p. drawing by Kirsten Hoeck; 500 bound in paper wrappers with a cover designed by René Laubiès. Cf. Novik.
• "This book is handset in Mercedes and Futura types and printed by Mossèn Alcover in Palma de Mallorca May 1957."--Colophon.

Indexed In (note)

• Novik, M. Creeley an inventory

Source (note)

• John Sampas

Provenance (note)

• Berg Coll. copy 1 inscribed: "for Bob Wilson with pleasure, Bob"--free endpaper.
• Berg Coll. copy 2 inscribed: "for Robert Wilson with all best, Robert Creeley"--1st leaf.
• Berg Coll. copy 3 inscribed to Jack Kerouac from "GK" and to Kerouac from the author ("Con amore -- and likewise Love, Bob"), dated Jan. 24, 1958--leaf preceding t.p.; formerly owned by Jack Kerouac, water damaged while in his possession, and acquired with the Jack Kerouac Archive in June 2001.
• Berg Coll. copy 4 previously owned by James Merrill.

Binding (note)

• Berg Coll. copy 1 bound in boards; copies 2 and 3 bound in paper wrappers.

Processing Action (note)

• Mass deacidification

Call Number

C-10 9146

OCLC

• 8171614
• 19249084

Author

Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005.

Title

The whip / by Robert Creeley.

Imprint

[Worcester, Eng.] : Migrant Books, 1957 (Palma de Mallorca : Mossèn Alcover).

Indexed In:

Novik, M. Creeley an inventory, A8.

Provenance

Berg Coll. copy 1 inscribed: "for Bob Wilson with pleasure, Bob"--free endpaper.

Berg Coll. copy 2 inscribed: "for Robert Wilson with all best, Robert Creeley"--1st leaf.

Berg Coll. copy 3 inscribed to Jack Kerouac from "GK" and to Kerouac from the author ("Con amore -- and likewise Love, Bob"), dated Jan. 24, 1958--leaf preceding t.p.; formerly owned by Jack Kerouac, water damaged while in his possession, and acquired with the Jack Kerouac Archive in June 2001.

Berg Coll. copy 4 previously owned by James Merrill.

Local Note

Berg Coll. copy 1 contains ink stamp: "Migrant. 1199 Church St., Ventura, Calif."--verso of t.p.

Binding

Berg Coll. copy 1 bound in boards; copies 2 and 3 bound in paper wrappers.

Local Note

Berg Coll. copy 4: Gift of Peter Hooten, Dec. 1997.

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Added Author

Alcover, Mossèn. Printer

Laubiès, René, 1924-. Cover designer

Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005. Inscriber

Wilson, Robert A. (Robert Alfred), 1922-2016. Former owner

Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. Former owner

Merrill, James, 1926-1995. Former owner

Hooten, Peter. Donor

Research Call Number

C-10 9146

Berg Coll Creeley W55 1957

Berg Coll Kerouac ZA3 C76 1957

Berg Coll Merrill ZA3 C76 1957