Match in a bottle
By: poems by Tracey Knapp ; drawings by Kurt Gohde
Contributors: Gohde, Kurt, artist, signer; Bixler, Michael, compositor; Bixler, Winifred, compositor, binder; Russem, Michael, printer; Kat Ran Press; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Kat Ran Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: North Andover, Massachusetts
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Fire; Poetry
Work titles: Poems
Notes: Title page in red and black.  Includes "smoke drawings" by Kurt Gohde.

"Limited to fifty books numbered 1 through 50. An additional fifteen books, lettered A through O, are not for sale"--Colophon.

"Kurt Gohde made over 800 original drawings with matches, kerosene lamps, snaps, gold leaf, gun powder, and cigarette lighters. The title page and poems are each accompanied by one of these drawings. The poems were set in the 16-point monotype cutting of Bruce Rogers's Centaur by Michael & Winifred Bixler, Skaneateles, New York. The edition was printed on Arches by Michael & Katherine Russem of the Kat Ran Press. The books were sewn by hand and bound by Winifred Bixler"--Colophon.

Issued in a clamshell box.

LC has copy number 1, signed by the author and artist; 12 page announcement laid in.