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

[The Prints & The Paper]

What a nice description! And, incidentally, encounters with raccoons in
kitchens can easily evolve into a metaphysical experience - or even more
likely, a physical one.

Lee
(been there, done that, missed the metaphysics.....)

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