Seance for a minyan
Subtitle: ten poems
By: by Anthony Hecht ; intaglios by Michael Kuch
Contributors: Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000; Kuch, Michael, etcher, printer; Schmidtmann, Jennifer, printer; Larson, Arthur (Printer), printer; Randall, Karen, compositor; Losiny, Velke, papermaker; Wineberg, Shoshannah, binder; Spence, Barry, binder; Hecht, Anthony, 1923-2004, signer; Double Elephant Press
Publisher: Double Elephant Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Artists' books; Poetry; History of Biblical events; Illustrations; Death; Type and type-founding; Specimens; Spectrum type; Bible
Notes: Poems based on New Testament quotes or characters.

First etching titled: In memory of Leonard Baskin.

Contains 14 leaves folded twice, in triptych fashion.

Issued in slipcase covered with gold cloth.

Sewn; tied with white cord. Bound in black silk cloth wrapper over boards. Wraparound front cover has rectangular cut-out of burgundy colored glass that reveals a mounted label, illustrated in black and white with an image of a skull with spider legs. Title printed on label in red typefaces. Intaglio plates interleaved with tissue. Ivory colored paper; deckled edges.

"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 Wineburg with assistance from Barry Spence ..."--Colophon.

Rare Book copy: No. 24.

Rare Book copy: Signed by the author and the artist.