Seance for a minyan
Subtitle: ten poems
By: by Anthony Hecht ; intaglios by Michael Kuch.
Contributors: Kuch, Michael, 1965-; Wineberg, Shoshannah, binder.; Double Elephant Press,
Publisher: Double Elephant Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: [Northampton, Mass.?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Bible. -- History of Biblical events -- Poetry.; Bible. O.T. -- Illustrations.; Death -- Poetry.; Artists' books.
Genres: Poetry.
Notes: Poems based on Old Testament quotes or characters.
"Issued by the Double Elephant Press in the tragic fall of two thousand one. The copper etchings were printed by Michael Kuch and by Jennifer Schmidtmann ... Letterpress was by Arthur Larson. The sixteen point Spectrum type was hand set by Karen Randall. The paper was hand made by Velke Losiny ... The edition of seventy was bound by Shoshannah Wineberg with assistance from Barry Spence"--Colophon.
Contains 12 leaves folded twice, in triptych fashion; issued in slipcase covered with gold cloth; bound in black silk clother wrapper over boards, with wraparound front cover with rectangular cut-out of burgundy colored glass that reveals a mounted label.
LC copy is marked Copy number 8, with author's signature; slipcase has a recessed well containing a copperplate; 2nd set of [13] of the leaves of plates ([12] folded) in separate case within the slipcase; typescript of "Haman" with the author's correction to the text and his signature in a pocket inside the front cover.