Research Catalog

Title

On the music of the spheres / Linda Connor, Charles Simic.

Author

Connor, Linda, 1944-

Publication

[New York] : Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, c1996

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Details

Additional Authors

• Simic, Charles, 1938-2023.
• Barnard, Edward Emerson, -1923.
• Bixler, Michael.
• Miller, Leslie, 1957-
• Bixler, Winifred.
• Turner, Lincoln.
• Castleberry, May.
• Cohen, Claudia, 1953-
• Hennessey, Robert J.
• Whitney Museum of American Art. Library Fellows.
• Grenfell Press. prt
• Allethaire Press. pop

Description

[24] leaves : mounted ill.; 37 cm.

Series Statement

Sixteenth publication in the Artists and writers series of the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art

Uniform Title

Artists and writers series ; 16th.

Subjects

• Connor, Linda, 1944-
• Photographic prints > United States > 20th century
• Cosmology > Poetry
• Harmony of the spheres > Poetry
• Astronomical photography
• Palladium prints
• Photography, Artistic
• Artists' books > United States
• Platinum prints > United States > 20th century
• Typefaces (Type evidence) > Perpetua (Monotype)
• Astronomy > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – United States.
• Photographic prints – United States – 20th century.
• Platinum prints – United States – 20th century.
• Palladium prints.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Perpetua (Monotype)

Note

• "Of this edition of three hundred and fifty copies, two hundred and fifty were bound by Campbell Logan Bindery; one hundred were bound by Claudia Cohen and these include an original platinum palladiuim print editioned by Lincoln Turner"--Colophon.
• "Photographs by Linda Connor; poems by Charles Simic."
• "This book was organized by May Castleberry. The design is by Leslie Miller and Michael Bixler. Linda Connor's photographs were printed by the Allethaire Press from half-tones created by Robert Hennessey. The type was set in Monotype Perpetua by Michael and Winifred Bixler and printed by the Grenfell Press"--Colophon.
• Poems on leaves [3-7]; leaves [3-6] printed on both sides.
• Illustrations are 15 mounted reproductions of photographs, including 6 from historical astronomical photographic plates by E.E. Barnard and others from the Mount Hamilton Plate Archives of the Lick Observatory.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Binding (note)

• Deluxe copies: Publisher's midnight blue cloth, by Claudia Cohen; black morocco labels on spine and front cover, with title lettered in gold. Issued in matching slipcase.

Call Number

Berg Coll+ Simic O5 1996

OCLC

36393124

Author

Connor, Linda, 1944-

Title

On the music of the spheres / Linda Connor, Charles Simic.

Imprint

[New York] : Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, c1996 ([New York] : Grenfell Press)

Series

Sixteenth publication in the Artists and writers series of the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art

Artists and writers series ; 16th.

Local Note

Berg Coll copy is no. 65/100; signed in pencil by Charles Simic and Linda Connor.

Spencer Coll. copy is no. 72/100; signed in pencil by Charles Simic and Linda Connor.

Access

Restricted access; request pemission from holding division.

Local Note

Library copies accompanied by: 1 photographic print : platinum palladium, b&w on black ; 24 x 28 cm. Signed in pencil by Linda Connor in lower right corner; inscribed in pencil on verso: "Prayer wheels and lumber, Samye Monastery, Tibet, 1993." Inserted in slits in sheet of black paper (36 x 33 cm.), in stiff light gray paper folder, laid in.

Binding

Deluxe copies: Publisher's midnight blue cloth, by Claudia Cohen; black morocco labels on spine and front cover, with title lettered in gold. Issued in matching slipcase.

Local Note

Spencer Coll. copy: Gift of Reba and Dave Williams.

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Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

Added Author

Simic, Charles, 1938-2023.

Barnard, Edward Emerson, -1923.

Whitney Museum of American Art. Library Fellows.

Grenfell Press. Printer

Bixler, Michael. Book designer

Miller, Leslie, 1957- Book designer

Bixler, Winifred. Compositor

Allethaire Press. Printer of plates

Turner, Lincoln. Printer of plates

Castleberry, May. Book producer

Cohen, Claudia, 1953- Binder

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Simic O5 1996

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1996 10-201