Research Catalog

Title

Colorful fortune : poems & drawings / by Harold Budd.

Author

Budd, Harold

Publication

[Vancouver, B.C.] : Heavenly Monkey Editions ; [Seattle, Wash.] : MoonLiner Books, 2009.

Supplementary Content

Publisher's description

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Details

Additional Authors

• Milroy, Rollin
• Clifford, David, 1936-
• Cohen, Claudia, 1953-
• Braune, Peter
• Lowe, Keith (Bassist)
• Lissel, Reg
• Heavenly Monkey (Firm), publisher.
• MoonLiner Books, publisher.
• Black Stone Press (Vancouver, B.C.), printer.
• (Deluxe issue) New Leaf Editions, printer of plates.

Description

• 6 unnumbered pages, 33 pages,1 unnumbered page : illustrations; 24 cm
• 1 drawing : pencil ;
• 4 prints : photoengravings ;

Genre/Form

• Artists' books – United States – 21st century.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Perpetua.
• Typefaces (Type evidence) – Zapfino.
• Drawings – United States – 21st century.
• Graphite drawings – United States – 21st century.
• Pencil works – United States – 21st century.

Note

• "Edition of fifty signed copies"--Colophon.
• "The first ten copies form the deluxe issue, & include one of the original drawings reproduced in the book, as well as photo-etchings of four preliminary arabesque drawings by the author, printed by Peter Braune at New Leaf Editions. These copies have been bound by Claudia Cohen. The remaining [forty] copies form the press issue, and have been bound at MoonLiner Books by Keith Lowe in limp paper vellum made by Reg Lissel"--Colophon.
• "This book was set in Perpetua with Zapfino for display by Rollin Milroy at Heavenly Monkey. It was printed letterpress on Rives paper by David Clifford at Black Stone Press"--Colophon.
• There was also a trade paperback edition; see Heavenly Monkey website, viewed July 12, 2016: "The book ... was issued in two different editions. A limited edition of 50 copies, signed and numbered by Harold, printed on Rives Lightweight. ... [and] a trade paperback edition, printed from the same setting on Mohawk Superfine acid-free paper ... The paperback edition was issued exclusively by MoonLiner Books."
• Printed in black and gray; title page printed in black with ornamental letters in title printed in dark red. Illustrations printed in gray.
• "The pencil drawings reproduced here were created by the author specifically for this book, at the end of 2008. They consist of two series of seven drawings each, (Claudio) Monteverdi I-VII and (Lennie) Tristano I-VII, each based on music Harold was listening to at the time"--Page 2.
• Rare Books copy (deluxe issue, no. 1) contains 13 (not 14) reproductions of drawings: Monteverdi II-VII and Tristano I-VII.
• In the deluxe issue, the original drawing, preceded by a leaf with title in calligraphy, and the 4 photoengraved reproductions of drawings, preceded by a leaf with "Four drawings" in calligraphy, are bound in following the colophon.

Binding (note)

• Quarter black leather, gilt, with leather tips and paste paper boards and endleaves, by Claudia Cohen. Issued in a dark red silk covered clamshell box with paste paper backstrip and edges and black leather spine label. "For the boards and endsheets Claudia created a special paste paper design inspired by Harold's arabesques"--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website, viewed July 12, 2016.
• Limp paper vellum, by Keith Lowe. "The [binding] case, custom made by Reg Lissel for this project from abaca fiber, is semi-transparent: it is lined with a sheet, visible through the cover, printed with the title and one of the drawings"--Heavenly Monkey website, viewed July 12, 2016.

Contents

Poem sketches 2007-2008 -- Poems from By the dawn's early light -- Into the night (from She is a phantom) -- Poems from Glyph -- At Schweitzer House, "The monument."

Call Number

*KP (Heavenly) 16-64

OCLC

499269254

Author

Budd, Harold, author, illustrator.

Title

Colorful fortune : poems & drawings / by Harold Budd.

Publisher

[Vancouver, B.C.] : Heavenly Monkey Editions ; [Seattle, Wash.] : MoonLiner Books, 2009.

Edition

[Limited edition]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Note

Rare Books copy is no. 1; signed by Harold Budd.

Local Note

Rare Books copy contains the original drawing "Tristano IV"; signed in pencil on verso and inscribed "Tristano IV. 12.30.08. Joshua Tree."

Binding

Deluxe issue: Quarter black leather, gilt, with leather tips and paste paper boards and endleaves, by Claudia Cohen. Issued in a dark red silk covered clamshell box with paste paper backstrip and edges and black leather spine label. "For the boards and endsheets Claudia created a special paste paper design inspired by Harold's arabesques"--Vamp & Tramp Booksellers website, viewed July 12, 2016.

Press issue: Limp paper vellum, by Keith Lowe. "The [binding] case, custom made by Reg Lissel for this project from abaca fiber, is semi-transparent: it is lined with a sheet, visible through the cover, printed with the title and one of the drawings"--Heavenly Monkey website, viewed July 12, 2016.

Local Note

Rare Books copy: The title page and its conjugate leaf (last four unnumbered preliminary pages) are loose in the binding.

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Publisher's description

Place of Publication

Canada British Columbia Vancouver.

United States Washington Seattle.

Added Author

Milroy, Rollin, compositor.

Clifford, David, 1936- printer.

(Deluxe issue) Cohen, Claudia, 1953- binder.

(Deluxe issue) Braune, Peter, printer of plates.

(Press issue) Lowe, Keith (Bassist), binder.

(Press issue) Lissel, Reg, papermaker.

Heavenly Monkey (Firm), publisher.

MoonLiner Books, publisher.

Black Stone Press (Vancouver, B.C.), printer.

(Deluxe issue) New Leaf Editions, printer of plates.

Research Call Number

*KP (Heavenly) 16-64