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Bending the bow

Title: Bending the bow / Robert Duncan.
Author: Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988.
Publication: New York : New Directions, 1968.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	D-18 6682	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll Duncan B46 1968 cop 3	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll Duncan B46 1968 cop 2	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll Duncan B46 1968 cop 1	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
Not available - Please for assistance.	Text	Restricted use	Berg Coll 22-770	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
Not available - Please for assistance.	Text	Restricted use	Berg Coll 22-769	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Description

x, 137, [3] p.; 21 cm.

Series Statement

New Directions paperbook ; 255
NDP255

Subject

Genre/Form

Gay poetry.
Poems.
Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1968.
Typefaces (Type evidence) – Aldus.
Authors' presentation inscriptions (Provenance).
Authors' autographs (Provenance).
Embossed stamps (Provenance).

Note

Poems.
Book and jacket design by Graham Mackintosh.
Text set in Aldus by J.S. Brooke.
Photograph of the author on front cover by Nata Piaskowski.
"A New Directions book" -- dust jacket.
"New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139-140]).

Indexed In (note)

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Source (note)

Leila and Daniel Javitch;
Robert A. Wilson;

Provenance (note)

Berg Coll. copy 1 inscribed to "B.J. Wilson" (Robert A. Wilson), and with a drawing of lyre or bow--t.p.

Binding (note)

bound in publishers' yellow cloth; with original book and jacket design by Graham Mackintosh. Jacket photograph by Nata Piaskowski.
bound in publishers' paperback binding, original book and jacket design by Graham Mackintosh. Cover photograph by Nata Piaskowski.

Call Number

D-18 6682

ISBN

0811200337

LCCN

68015879

OCLC

302944
NYPGR302944-B

Author

Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988.

Title

Bending the bow / Robert Duncan.

Imprint

New York : New Directions, 1968.

Series

New Directions paperbook ; 255

NDP255

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139-140]).

Indexed In:

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 69

Provenance

Berg Coll. copy 1 inscribed to "B.J. Wilson" (Robert A. Wilson), and with a drawing of lyre or bow--t.p.

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-769 bound in publishers' yellow cloth; with original book and jacket design by Graham Mackintosh. Jacket photograph by Nata Piaskowski. NN

Copy in Berg Coll 22-770 bound in publishers' paperback binding, original book and jacket design by Graham Mackintosh. Cover photograph by Nata Piaskowski. NN

Local Note

Berg Coll. copy 2 signed in ink by Duncan on t.p.

Berg Coll. copy 2 contains publisher's review notice, laid in.

Berg Coll. copy 3 contains "ADC" embossed stamp on t.p.

Berg Coll. copy 1: Gift of Robert A. Wilson, 1996.

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Added Author

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Mackintosh, Graham, book designer, cover designer, bookjacket designer.

Mackintosh, Graham. Designer

Piaskowski, Nata, photographer

Piaskowski, Nata. Photographer

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988. Inscriber. Signer

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

Charters, Ann. Former owner

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

D-18 6682

Berg Coll Duncan B46 1968

Berg Coll 22-769

Berg Coll 22-770

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