Kaddish for Naomi Ginsberg, 1894-1956
By: by Allen Ginsberg ; with two other related poems White shroud and Black shroud ; an introduction by Helen Vendler ; and lithograph portraits of the poet and his mother by R. B. Kitaj
Contributors: Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997; Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997; Kitaj, R. B., illustrator; Arion Press
Publisher: Arion Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Notes: "This is the thirty-eighth publication of the Arion Press. The edition is limited to 226 copies, of which 200 numbered copies are for sale and 26 lettered copies are hors de commerce. Each copy is signed by the author and artist. The types are Imprint, composed in Monotype ... and Weiss Titling, set by hand ... The lithographs were printed by Curwen Chilford Prints Limited, Cambridge, England. The book was designed, printed, and bound at the Arion Press under the direction of Andrew Hoyem"--Colophon.

"The binding, covered in two colors of imported Japanese cloth ... is of unusual design, with a flap enclosing a fore-edge that fold into the front cover. The pattern reinforces the shape of the initial K of the title"--Publisher's prospectus.