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Cane

Title: Cane / by Jean Toomer ; woodcuts by Martin Puryear ; afterword by Leon F. Litwack.
Author: Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967.
Publication: San Francisco, [Calif.] : Arion Press, 2000.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	Sc Rare++ G 01-4	Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KP+ (Arion) 03-326	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

141 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. (some mounted); 30 x 36 cm.

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Note

"This edition ... is limited to 400 numbered copies for sale plus 26 lettered copies hors de commerce. Each copy is signed by the artist, Martin Puryear"--Colophon.
Some sections in verse.
"The text type is Times New Roman Bold with long descenders, composed by Monotype; the display type is Lucian Bold, composed by hand. The text paper is Biblio, mouldmade in Germany. The text was printed on a Miller TW cylinder press ... The book was designed by Andrew Hoyem ... This is the fifty-ninth publication of the Arion Press"--Colophon.
Produced under the direction of Andrew Hoyem.
Illustrations: 10 prints : woodcut, b&w ; full page (7) and sheet 11 x12 cm. The small cuts are mounted. "The print paper is Kitakata, handmade in Japan ... the woodblocks were printed on a Vandercook Universal III proofing press"--Colophon.
Binding: Publisher's natural linen boards, stamped in black, with 2 brown ribbon ties inserted.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliographic references included in afterword, "Jean Toomer's Cane," by Leon F. Litwack (p. 130-141).

Call Number

Sc Rare++ G 01-4

OCLC

45107226

Author

Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967.

Title

Cane / by Jean Toomer ; woodcuts by Martin Puryear ; afterword by Leon F. Litwack.

Imprint

San Francisco, [Calif.] : Arion Press, 2000.

Bibliography

Bibliographic references included in afterword, "Jean Toomer's Cane," by Leon F. Litwack (p. 130-141).

Local Note

Copy Sc Rare G 01-4 is no. 23, signed in pencil by the artist.

Copy in *KP+ is no. 188; signed in pencil by the artist.

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Black author.

Added Author

Puryear, Martin, 1941- Illustrator. Wood engraver

Litwack, Leon F.

Hoyem, Andrew. Book designer

Arion Press. Publisher. Printer

Research Call Number

Sc Rare++ G 01-4

*KP+ (Arion) 03-326