Three poems
Subtitle: Tres poemas
By: Octavio Paz ; lithographs by Robert Motherwell ; translated by Eliot Weinberger
Publisher: Limited Editions Club
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; spa
Translated from: spa
Copyright date: 1979
Other titles: Tres poemas
Work titles: Poems
Notes: "The types used in this edition are Bauer Bodoni Bold and Bauer Bodonmi Bold Italic, cast by Fundición Tipográfica Neufville. The text was hand set at Stamperia Valdonega. The first poem has been printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress, the second poem at Stamperia Valdonega, and the last poem at Heritage Printers. The lithographs were printed at Trestle Editions. The design is by Benjamin Shiff.

"This edition consists of three presentations. The first ... 750 bound copies, numbered 1-750, signed by the artist and the poet. The second ... 50 portfolios of the lithographs without the text ... each lithograph signed by the artist and numbered 1/50-50/50. The third ... 20 portfolios having the complete text ... with each sheet containing a lithograph signed by the artist and numbered I/XX-XX/XX"--Colophon.

English and Spanish on facing text pages.

This copy is no. 657, signed by the author and by the illustrator.

Bound in natural Irish linen, with a lithograph inlaid on front cover; in matching clamshell box; Limited Editions Club newsletter for Sept. 1988 laid in; in CMI case.
Table of contents: title: I. San Ildefonso nocturne = Nocturno de San Ildefonso; title: II. Return = Vuelta; title: III. Skin sound of the world = Piel sonido del mundo.