WORLD BRIMMING OVER

Sexton, Tom

Published by Brooding Heron Press, Waldron Island, WA, 2003

About this Item

8vo. half cloth, paper-covered boards, label on spine, top and bottom edge cut. unpaginated. Limited to 300 copies, of which this is one of 26 lettered copies bound thus and signed by the printer and binder. A fine copy. Printed on a 1920 treadle-operated C&P platen press. The typeface is Kennerley, cast by Christ Stern, at Stern & Faye on the banks of the upper Skagit River. Display type is Deepden. This deluxe edition was printed on Domestic Etching, and signed by the author on the title-page and the printer and binder on the colophon page. Bound by hand into cloth & paper over boards. Title page art is an adaptation of traditional Japanese water motifs. The process of setting type by hand began in the winter, after the publishers' return from a teaching semester in Rock Springs, WY. Production then dragged on, slow as an Alaska winter, with the last pages finally fed through the press a month after fall equinox. half cloth, paper-covered boards, label on spine, top and bottom edge cut.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: WORLD BRIMMING OVER
• Publisher: Brooding Heron Press, Waldron Island, WA
• Publication Date: 2003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Brooding Heron Press
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fine Press Books