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Description

[8] p. : col. ill.; 29 cm.

Alternative Title

Marc Ballroom. Selections.

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Note

Prose poem from author's novel "The Marc Ballroom."
Poem includes excerpts from lyrics of tango dance music.
Bound in iridescent violet and gold silk over boards; issued in clamshell fashioned wrapper. Cover title printed in violet colored script typefaces and illustrated. Multi-colored iridescent endpapers. Hand-colored illustration of two dancers on title page; title lettered in green.
Printed on one side of a cream colored accordion folded sheet (29 x 160 cm.); first leaf mounted on the front inner lining of wrapper.
On colophon: Drawings, calligraphy, hand coloring and text ... by Alice Simpson. Historical tango lyrics, Catulo Castillo ... [et al.]. Letterpress printed on Stonehenge from polymer plates on a Vandercook Universal III. Bauer Bodoni type. Bound by the artist ... endpapers by Claire Maziarczyc[sic]k. Box by Carolyn Chadwick. Edition of twenty-two plus artist proof. Ten in boxes. Thirteen without box.

Call Number

*MGZGV 06-3147

OCLC

49274134

Author

Simpson, Alice.

Title

Tango bar / Alice Simpson.

Imprint

New York : [A. Simpson], 2001.

Local Note

Dance Divison copy in artist's box. Edition number 3 of 22. Signed by the artist on colophon.

Added Author

Simpson, Alice. Binder. Calligrapher. Illustrator

Castillo, Cátulo, 1906-1975. Lyricist

Chadwick, Carolyn.

Maziarczyk, Claire. Papermaker

Simpson, Alice. Signer NN-PD

Added Title

Marc Ballroom. Selections.

Research Call Number

*MGZGV 06-3147