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Additional authors

1. Janus Press. prt

Description

1. [18] p.; 20 cm.

Subject

1. Quilting > Poetry
2. Artists' books > United States

Genre/Form

1. Typefaces (Type evidence) – Weiss bold.
2. Cut-paper works.

Contents

1. Putting your name in your blues -- Names not on quilts.

Call number

1. *KP (Janus, West Burke) 92-243

Note

1. Pages are cut to resemble quilt patterns; when viewed together, the pages are intended to represent a friendship quilt.
2. Accompanying the book is a plastic zip-lock bag containing a prospectus sheet and 10 pieces of variously shaped trimmings, presumably from the book.
3. Binding: Publisher's patterned cloth boards; the paper spine and the front cover are detachable. Issued in a drop back Solander box.

Author

1. McPherson, Sandra.

Title

1. Designating duet / Sandra McPherson.

Imprint

1. [West Burke], Vt. : Janus Press, 1989.

Local note

1. One of 175 copies printed in black and red on various colors of Fabriano paper from Weiss bold type; signed by the poet and the designer/printer, Claire Van Vliet, as well as by others who helped make the book. "This [copy] is for the New York Public Library"--Colophon.

Connect to:

1. Request access to this item in the Schwarzman Rare Books Collection

Added author

1. Janus Press. Printer

LCCN

1. 90131168

Research call number

1. *KP (Janus, West Burke) 92-243