Bibframe Instance
TitleFour poems of the occultNotephysical details: ill."Edition limited to 130 copies, of which 30 are hors commerce -- reserved for author rights, artists, editor & printer. The type faces are Goudy Modern and Cochin italic, set by hand; the paper is mould made all-rag Rives from France, printed damp on an Acorn-Smith handpress made in 1830. The border decorations and initials are by Mallette Dean; the initials were colored by hand. The chemise and box were made by hand in Paris... With the exception of 'Elegy of Ihpetonga,' this constitutes the first edition in English of all the poems, and the first reprint of the illustrations. Designed, printed and published by Lewis & Dorothy Allen at The Allen Press ..., Kentfield, California.""This edition is now out of print"--Partial sheet of paper laid in with instructions for handling the bookEach section of gatherings laid loose in a printed and embossed tan-colored linen-textured paper cover. Text and illustrations printed in color.Dimensions40 cmExtent1 portfolio (5 sections in 1 linen-covered "chemise" inside a linen covered case)Provision ActivityPublication: California 1962 Publication: [Kentfield, Calif.]: The Allen Press, nineteen sixty-two [1962] Responsibility StatementYvan Goll ; illustrations by Fernand Léger, Pablo Picasso, Yves Tanguy & Jean Arp ; edited & with introductions by Francis Carmody