First visit
By: Sara Langworthy
Contributors: Coreopsis Press; Women's Studio Workshop; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Coreopsis Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: [Iowa City, Iowa]
Language: eng
Subjects: Night in art; Wakefulness in literature; Insomnia; Artists' books
Notes: "Most nights -- were spent awake in the dark -- waiting for day and sleep -- pretending the view from the window ---- was home."

"Conceived and assembled in the cold, using transparencies of etchings, UICB koza, Japanese book cloth, & 2-ply museum board. 40 books were made during the winter of 2001"--Colophon.

Place of publication supplied by Phyllis Heller of Joshua Heller Rare Books.

"For best viewing, place in front of bright light"--Inside back cover.

"'First visit' was published with a grant from Women's Studio Workshop, which is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts"--Inside back cover.

Six leaves of board, each cut out to form a rectangular frame and covered with black cloth; each frame has a rectangular transparency (etching) inset and held in place with bookbinder's thread. Transparencies may be viewed from recto and verso. Back and front covers are gray cloth boards with smaller transparencies inset near black cloth spine.

LC has copy no. 19 signed by the author.