Cummington Press titles available
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by Barry & Lorrie Goldensohn with a wood engraving by Sara Tabbert |
Harry Duncan designed the page, hand set the type, and selected the text paper for East Long Pond early this year. Following his death in April, his wife, Nancy Duncan, commissioned the frontispiece engraving by Sara Tabbert, a recent MFA graduate from the UN-L Department of Art, as well as the printing and binding completed by Denise Brady. Bembo type with Engravers Shaded initials, Zerkall soft white vellum text paper. Paper covers are of handmade Indian Rag & Algae and Proterra Flecks.12 pages. 10 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches. 150 hand-numbered copies. 1997.
$35.00
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Seven wood engravings printed in black illustrate these thirty poems printed by Harry Duncan from handset Bembo types on Curtis Flannel text paper. The visible long stitch binding into covers of Momi crumpled paper is by Denise Brady. 167 numbered copies. 88 pages. 8 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches. 1996.
$70.00
The St. Kitts Monkey Feuds:
A Poem in Eight Parts
by Laurence Lieberman
with two linocuts by Laurence Donovan
This Caribbean-inspired poem was hand set and printed from Bembo
type with Goudy Open display by Harry Duncan on Nideggen, a German
mouldmade paper. Sewn with linen thread visible along the spine
by Denise Brady into covers of rag and gunny handmade paper from
India. The illustration plates and title on cover were printed
in brown. 40 pages. 195 hand-numbered copies. 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches.
1995.
$50.00
I Asked Hoping and Other Poems
by Mary Lucina
These forty-three poems are grouped in three sections. Harry Duncan set each poem in Bembo type, two columns to a page with a Perpetua title and cuspate rule. The book is printed on Lana Royal paper. The nonadhesive sewing is by Denise Brady and features a paper wrapper of Australian printed marble paper. 140 copies. 7 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches. 60 pages. 1993.
$40.00
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The Pith Helmet by Alfred Corn |
This book of aphorisms was printed from Bembo and Goudy Open types on Mohawk paper. Linotype tapered dashes printed in red separate the short sayings. Sewn without adhesives and wrapped in black Fabriano Ingre paper with a printed label pasted on the front. 155 copies. 24 pages. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches. 1992.
$30.00
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Homage to the Afterlife by Stephen Berg |
Harry Duncan has set and printed Stephen Berg's poem from Bembo type with one line of Perpetua display (in lavender-gray ink) on soft white Mohawk paper. Denise Brady sewed the two signatures and slipped them into wrappers of Curtis paper which had been press-scored and printed with title and author's name. The 22-page book is 11 5/8 inches in height and 6 inches wide with a narrow crisp spine. 212 hand numbered copies. 1991.
$20.00
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Lenten Anniversaries by Ben Howard
Sixty poems with seven plates by Harry Littell. This third Cummington publication by Ben Howard was set from Bembo and Castellar initials and printed on Ingres Fabriano. The edition was case-bound at Campbell-Logan Bindery in Japanese cloth with endpapers cut from stock handmade by Walter Hamady. 118 pp. 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches. 232 press-numbered copies. 1990.
$65.00
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by Joe Bolton |
Fourteen sections comprise this "novella in verse" printed from Bembo and Perpetua types on Ingres d'Arches paper. 215 copies case-bound at Campbell-Logan Bindery in black cloth and marble paper. 215 copies. 40 pp. 8 x 6 1/4 inches. 1989.
$60.00
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by Harold Grier McCurdy |
Twenty-four poems set in Bembo type with red Hadriano Stone Cut initials printed on Mohawk paper. Initials printed in red. The nonadhesive binding, wrapped in gray Fabriano Ingres paper, was completed by Campbell-Logan Bindery. 145 hand-numbered copies. 31 pp. 10 x 6 1/2 inches. 1989.
$50.00
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Sea Ice: Versions of Eskimo Song by Stephen Berg |
Thirty-five poems inspired by "Eskimo songs collected and transliterated by Knud Rasmussen in his ten-volume Report of the Fifth Thule Expedition, 1921-24." Printed from Bembo type set on the Monotype at Harold Berliner's Type foundry and put through the composing stick at The Cummington Press. The text was visibly sewn into cloth-covered boards by Alison Wilson. 292 hand-numbered copies. 63 pp. 6 3/4 x 6 5/8 inches. 1988.
$56.00
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The Suicide by Mark Sanders |
This poem was printed from Romulus roman and Lutetia italic type on Crane & Co. Bond paper. 220 hand-numbered copies pasted into paper covers. 15 pp. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. 1988.
$15.00
by Robert Hahn
Twenty-two poems printed from Romulus roman, Lutetia italic, and Delphian initials on Strathmore paper. Cased in cloth over boards. 250 hand-numbered copies. 63 pp. 8 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches. 1988.
$40.00
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Voyage to Cythera: Charles Baudelaire Reads and Glosses Seventeen Poems by Ralph Bobb Intaglio by Priscilla Steele |
A dramatic monologue interspersed with "versions rather than translations" of Baudelaire's poetry. Printed from Romulus roman, Lutetia italic, and Perpetua types on Mohawk Superfine Text paper with initials in maroon. Priscilla Steele wiped, pulled, signed and numbered her copperplate. Campbell-Logan Bindery bound the edition in maroon cloth over boards. 250 copies. 48 pp. 11 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches. 1987.
$100.00
The Salt of Exposure by John
Finlay
Eighteen poems set in Joanna type with Romulus Open initials and printed on Strathmore Brigadoon paper. "The main theme is the mind, what man has done to debase it and what some men have achieved by its means.... At least half of the poems-including "Ovid in Exile"; "Dunescape with a Greek Shrine"; "A Prayer to Paraclete"; "On Rembrandt's Portrait"; and the title poem-seem to me permanent achievements." -R. L. Barth, The Southern Review, January 1989. The nonadhesive binding with paper cover was completed by Campbell-Logan Bindery. 300 hand-numbered copies. 32 pp. 8 7/8 x 5 5/8 inches. 1987.
$30.00
Northern Interior, Poems 1975-1982
by Ben Howard
Thirty-four poems printed from Romulus roman and Lutetia italic types on Rising book paper and case-bound with cloth-covered boards at the Campbell-Logan Bindery. 260 copies. 55 pp. 9 1/2 x 6 inches. 1986.
$40.00
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by Jane Greer |
Twenty-eight poems with an intaglio by Priscilla Steele. Printed from Lutetia italic lowercase Romulus roman capitals, Delphian and Cancelleresca Bastarda display on Amora paper. Red cover label on a blue-gray cloth over boards bound by Campbell-Logan. The intaglio in each book was numbered and signed by the artist who pulled the prints with the assistance of Jim Fredrikson. 300 copies. 47 pp. 9 3/4 x 6 1/8 inches. 1986.
$60.00
Lares: Poems 1985-1986
by Dick Davis
Fifteen poems printed on Crane & Co. bond paper from Bembo narrow italic lowercase and Joanna types. Red rule runs between titles and poems throughout the text. The book was sewn without adhesives and slipped into a paper wrapper. Bearing both Seacliff Press and The Cummington Press imprints, the printing was completed by Harry Duncan, Ted Danforth and Jim Fredrikson. 300 copies. 28 pp. 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches. 1986.
$30.00