Świat = The world

Title
  1. Świat = The world / Czesław Miłosz ; a sequence of twenty poems in Polish, translated into English by the poet, with an introduction by Helen Vendler and a portrait of the poet in dry-point engraving by Jim Dine.
Published by
  1. San Francisco : Arion Press, 1989.
Supplementary content
  1. Publisher's description
Author
  1. Miłosz, Czesław.

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Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308.

FormatTextAccessBy appointment onlyCall numberSpencer Coll. Amer. 1989 10-12Item locationSchwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308
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Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328.

FormatTextAccessRestricted useCall numberRare Books+ 09-1728Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Additional authors
  1. Vendler, Helen, 1933-
  2. Dine, Jim, 1935-
  3. Townsend, Robert E.
  4. Hoyem, Andrew.
  5. Arion Press. prt
Description
  1. 57, [2] p. : port.; 36 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Gift of Jim Dine. (Spencer Coll. copy)
Alternative title
  1. World.
Subject
  1. Miłosz, Czesław > Portraits
  2. Livres d'artistes > United States > 20th century
  3. Dine, Jim, 1935-
  4. Miłosz, Czesław > Translations into English
  5. Typefaces (Type evidence) > Ehrhardt (Monotype)
Genre/Form
  1. Livres d'artistes – United States – 20th century.
  2. Typefaces (Type evidence) – Ehrhardt (Monotype).
Call number
  1. Rare Books+ 09-1728
Note
  1. Cover title: The world = Świat.
  2. "Limited to 275 copies, of which 250 are for sale"--Colophon.
  3. "The twenty-ninth publication of the Arion Press ... The type is Ehrhardt, composed in Monotype by M & H Type in San Francisco, California, printed by letterpress at the Arion Press. The intaglio printing for the dry-point engraving by Jim Dine was done by Robert Townsend in Georgetown, Massachusetts. The paper is Curtis Ruysdael. The book was designed and produced under the direction of Andrew Hoyem"--Colophon.
  4. The full-page drypoint port. (plate mark 29 x 20 cm.) is printed with cream Kitikata paper chine collé on white Curtis Ruysdael paper.
  5. "An extra edition of the portrait dry-point engraving ... was printed without chine collé on larger sheets of British handmade paper ... Edition of 20 copies"--Description on publisher's Web site.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 16).
Indexed in (note)
  1. Carpenter, E. Jim Dine prints, 1985-2000
Binding (note)
  1. Publisher's quarter brown cloth and cream handmade paper boards; reduced copy of Dine's port. of Milosz printed in brown on front cover.
Author
  1. Miłosz, Czesław.
Title
  1. Świat = The world / Czesław Miłosz ; a sequence of twenty poems in Polish, translated into English by the poet, with an introduction by Helen Vendler and a portrait of the poet in dry-point engraving by Jim Dine.
Imprint
  1. San Francisco : Arion Press, 1989.
Indexed in:
  1. Carpenter, E. Jim Dine prints, 1985-2000, 168
Local note
  1. Spencer Coll. copy is unnumbered; signed by Miłosz on half-title leaf; signed by Dine at end of "Artist's statement," p. [8].
Local note
  1. Spencer Coll. copy accompanied by artist's preliminary drawings on Mylar and an artist's proof of the separate printing of the port., cataloged separately.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 16).
Binding
  1. Publisher's quarter brown cloth and cream handmade paper boards; reduced copy of Dine's port. of Milosz printed in brown on front cover.
Local note
  1. Spencer Coll. copy accompanied by preliminary drawings and an artist's proof of the port., cataloged separately.
  2. Spencer Coll. copy: Gift of Jim Dine.
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  2. Publisher's description
Place of publication
  1. United States California San Francisco.
Added author
  1. Vendler, Helen, 1933-
  2. Dine, Jim, 1935- Engraver
  3. Arion Press. Printer
  4. Townsend, Robert E. Printer of plates
  5. Hoyem, Andrew. Book designer
LCCN
  1. 90181355
Research call number
  1. Rare Books+ 09-1728
  2. Spencer Coll. Amer. 1989 10-12
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