Research Catalog

Title

Biotherm (for Bill Berkson) / by Frank O'Hara ; lithographs by Jim Dine ; essay by Bill Berkson.

Author

O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966.

Publication

San Francisco : Arion Press, 1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dine, Jim, 1935-
• Berkson, Bill
• Hoyem, Andrew
• Arion Press. pbl prt
• Phelps-Schaefer Lithographics, printer of plates

Description

1 case (44 sheets (44 leaves), 1 v. (24 p.)) : ill.; 58 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Jim Dine.

Alternative Title

Companion to Biotherm.

Subject

• O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966
• Dine, Jim, 1935-

Genre/Form

• Livres d'artistes – United States – 20th century.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Spectrum.

Note

• "Edition limited to 180 copies, of which 150 copies, assigned arabic numerals, are for sale ... Each copy is signed by the artist"--Colophon, leaf 44.
• Poem, reprinted from The collected poems of Frank O'Hara.
• "Designed and produced ... by Andrew Hoyem ... The type is Spectrum, designed by Jan Van Krimpen. The poem is handset in 22-point foundry type with other sizes for display and 14-point Monotype for the foreword, essay, and glossary ... The paper is English mould-made T.H. Saunders Waterford hot-press finish ... The letterpress printing and binding were done at Arion Press. The lithographic printing was done at Phelps-Schaefer in Brisbane, California ... The thirty-second publication of the Arion Press"--Colophon.
• Illustrations: 42 prints : offset lithograph, b&w ; full-page (21 are printed on sheets containing letterpress). Carpenter 169.26 shows hand-colored copy of the 26th ill.; uncolored in this copy.
• Blank sheet, not counted in collation, at end.
• Size of sheets: 56 x 39 cm.
• In pocket of case: Companion to Biotherm (for Bill Berkson), the last long poem of the late Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) : an essay entitled Air and such, with a glossary of notes on incidental references, quotations, and allusions in order of appearance in the poem / by Bill Berkson ; publisher's note by Andrew Hoyem. -- San Francisco : Arion Press, 1990. 24 p. : port. ; 28 cm.
• Unbound sheets and booklet issued in red cloth case.
• "The intaglio printing for an extra suite of eight prints by Jim Dine from images in Biotherm, issued in an edition of 35 sets, with 25 sets for sale, plus five artist's proofs and five publisher's proofs, was done by R.E. Townsend, Inc. in Georgetown, Nassachusetts"--Colophon. Suite has title: Suite of eight prints from Biotherm by Frank O'Hara.

Indexed In (note)

• Carpenter, E. Jim Dine prints 1985-2000

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1990 03-319

OCLC

• 23115337
• NYPG03-B4193

Author

O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966.

Title

Biotherm (for Bill Berkson) / by Frank O'Hara ; lithographs by Jim Dine ; essay by Bill Berkson.

Imprint

San Francisco : Arion Press, 1990.

Indexed In:

Carpenter, E. Jim Dine prints 1985-2000, 169

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 108; signed in pencil by the artist.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. has copy AP II of the suite, which is cataloged separately with classmark: Spencer Coll. Amer. 1990 03-319a.

Gift of Jim Dine.

Added Author

Dine, Jim, 1935- Illustrator

Berkson, Bill. Air and such. 1990.

Hoyem, Andrew. Book designer

Arion Press. Publisher. Printer

Phelps-Schaefer Lithographics, printer of plates.

Added Title

Companion to Biotherm.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1990 03-319