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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Mexican 2007 12-118	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

[23] leaves : col. ill.; 49 cm.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Artists' books – Mexico – 21st century.

Note

"Edition number: 27, each book is signed and numbered by the writer and the artist"--Colophon. There were also 12 proof copies; cf. publisher's information sheet accompanying Spencer Coll. copy.
"Text: prose by Max Blagg. Artwork: color photogravures made from photographs of Kembra [Pfahler] by Jack Pierson; four plate separation by Photo-Zinc, Mexico City. Title pages: collages by Jack Pierson printed in hand-set typography. Paper: white Mexican couché, buff vintage laid and white acid free newsprint. Cover cloth: Mexican plaid blend. End papers: Red and yellow Japanese Chiyogami. Design: Mr. and Mrs. Brown with Jack Pierson. Printing: hand-set typography and sixteen photogravures by Maestro Quintas [Gabriel M. Quintas Castellanos], Linotipográfica Quintas, Oaxaca. Bookbinding: Señora Quintas, Linotipografica Quintas, Oaxaca"--Colophon.
"The frontispiece is a photogravure ... hand-tipped into the book opposite the page indicating both author and artist. The graphics were designed by Jack Pierson as a collage, which was then set in typography and printed with black ink. The white title pages were executed in the same manner. The text was hand-set and printed in a Gothic font ... Contains 15 photogravures ... of Kembra Pfahler ... The photogravures are printed on white Mexican couché, the title pages are printed on white acid free newsprinte and the remainder of the book uses buff vintage laid"--Publisher's information sheet.

Binding (note)

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Mexican 2007 12-118

OCLC

797030199

Author

Blagg, Max.

Title

Don't look back / Max Blagg, Jack Pierson.

Imprint

[Oaxaca, Mexico] : Carpe Diem, 2007.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 26/27; signed in pencil by Pierson and Blagg.

Binding

Publisher's red and navy plaid cloth; red and yellow patterened endpapers.

Place of Publication

Mexico Oaxaca de Juárez.

Added Author

Pierson, Jack, 1960- Photographer

Quintas Castellanos, Gabriel M. Printer

Carpe Diem (Firm : Oaxaca, Mexico) Publisher

Linotipográfica Quintas. Printer

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Mexican 2007 12-118