Research Catalog

Title

Selected poems / Herman Melville ; edited and with an introduction by Helen Vendler.

Author

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

Publication

San Francisco, Calif. : Arion Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Vendler, Helen, 1933-
• Moser, Barry
• Hoyem, Andrew
• Arion Press, publisher.
• Mackenzie & Harris, compositor.

Description

xxiv, 130 pages : portrait; 26 cm

Subjects

• Artists' books > United States
• Fine paper printings (Printing)
• Poetry
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Goudy Open
• Private press books > California > San Francisco > 1995

Genre/Form

• Poetry.
• Fine paper printings (Printing)
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Goudy Open.
• Private press books – California – San Francisco – 1995.

Note

• "The edition is limited to 250 numbered copies for sale and 26 lettered copies hors de commerce."--Colophon.
• "The forty-seventh publication of the Arion Press. The book shares characteristics with the sixth publication of the press, Moby-Dick, by the same author, of 1979, in that the same typeface is used, Goudy Modern ... it is printed on the same paper, which was made for that edition by hand to the specifications of the press at the Barcham Green Mill in England and bears watermarks of the mill, the press, and of a sperm whale; and the same artist, Barry Moser, has engraved a new portrait of Herman Melville on Resingrave for the frontispiece. The text type was composed and cast on the Monotype by Mackenzie & Harris. The display type is Goudy Open and was set by hand. The book was designed and produced by Andrew Hoyem"--colophon.
• Frontispiece illustrated by Barry Moser.
• In slipcase.

Indexed In (note)

• Arion Press. Bibliography of the Arion Press

Binding (note)

• Bound in publisher's silver stamped leather and blue cloth boards.

Call Number

Rare Books 20-440

OCLC

35870874

Author

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891, author.

Title

Selected poems / Herman Melville ; edited and with an introduction by Helen Vendler.

Imprint

San Francisco, Calif. : Arion Press, 1995.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Arion Press. Bibliography of the Arion Press, 47

Binding

Bound in publisher's silver stamped leather and blue cloth boards. NN

Local Note

Copy in Rare Books 20-440 is no. 23 of 250 copies.

Rare Book Division Accession File 1990-1999 (rbk90.ask), Converted September 10, 2006.

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Added Author

Vendler, Helen, 1933- editor, writer of introduction.

Moser, Barry, artist.

Hoyem, Andrew, book designer.

Arion Press, publisher.

Mackenzie & Harris, compositor.

Research Call Number

Rare Books 20-440