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The Persephones

Item date(s): 2009

Nathaniel Tarn  - (poem by)
Carolee Campbell  - (book artist)


Pages: 48pp
Size: 375mm
Inscription: Signed by the artist and the poet.
Edition: #53/85 +10 H/C


Place publication: Sherman Oaks, CA
Publisher: Ninja Press

Additional notes:
The text pages consist of twelve unbound folios which open to 14 by 18 inches. Each of the twelve folios has been painted by hand on both the front and back using sumi ink and sale by Carolee Campbell, making each book unique. The poems are printed on and alongside the artwork. The type is hand set Van Dijk with Weiss Initials Series I for the display & printed on dampened Domestic Etching on a Vandercook universal I flatbed proof press. The folios are held in the goat parchment cover. The skins were processed by nan d at Pergamena in Montogmery, New york. The book is protected by a hard-sided chemise wrapper covered in a ddep green Asahi Japanese silken cloth. A slipcase, made by Judi Conant in Guildhall, Vermont, is covered in a nauural-colored linen. It holds the book and its chemise.

The Persephones, was first published by Christopher's Books in Santa Barbara, California in 1974. Much of the edition was subsequently destroyed by fire. The poems were significantly altered in 2007 by the poet for this Ninja Press edition.

Illustrated on p11 of Fine & Dirty: Contemporary Letterpress Art by Betty Bright, 2012.

Ref: GB/12547



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