Manhattan third year reader
By: Mark Beard
Contributors: Charrière, Gérard, 1935- binder; Vincent Fitz Gerald & Company
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Vincent Fitz Gerald
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Friends and associates; Artists' books; Toy and movable books; Specimens
Notes: 30 copies printed in blue, black, yellow and red at the Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Conn. Signed in red ink by the author/artist.

Two blank leaves, not counted in collation, precede colophon leaf.

Illustrations: 17 prints from 35 linocut blocks and other sources : linocut, col., hand-col., and/or printed on colored papers, with montage elements ; chiefly full-page. Subject: Ports. of the artist and his friends and associates including Virgil Thompson and James Purdy. "The thirty-five linocuts have been pulled and assembled by Mark Beard and Vincent FitzGerald. Twenty-eight papers were used in the production of this edition"--Colophon. Montages composed of linocut images, colored papers, marbled papers and other cut papers, photos., etc.; one incorporates moveable strip with stickers. Print mounted on leaf [30] has irregular image 48 x 52 cm. Print on leaves [34-35] on inserted folded strip of grayish brown paper; composed of irreg. image 17-44 cm. x 71 cm. and double page image 22 x 70 cm.; incorporates altered dollar bill.

Binding: Publisher's red cloth, by Gérard Charrière.