[Rarebooks] FS: Handmade Book: Gary Snyder's TRUE NIGHT with 11 engravings by Bob Giorgio, #51/100 signed

[Charles Agvent]

(GIORGIO, Bob) SNYDER, Gary. TRUE NIGHT. (N. San Juan, CA), (1980). 
First Edition. Oblong quarto (12-1/2" x 10") bound by hand with Japanese 
decorative handmade papers with the spine bound and laced in Chinese 
silk. Illustrated with eleven full-page engravings in wood and linoleum 
by Bob Giorgio. Each word of the poem was calligraphed by the artist 
then engraved. Only 100 copies were printed. Each is baren printed on 
Hosho paper hand made in Japan. No printing press was used. The engraved 
blocks were inked with a hand roller; then, the paper was laid on a 
block and, using a bamboo spoon called a baren, the back of the paper 
was rubbed by hand pressing the ink from the block onto the paper. This 
process was done for each of the 28 pages of each of the 100 copies of 
the edition. This is Copy #51 SIGNED by both the author and the artist. 
Prospectus laid in. Fine copy of this beautiful, completely handmade book.
A beautiful presentation of Snyder's poem about an encounter with 
raccoons in a kitchen evolving into a metaphysical experience. 		$1,500.00

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