Scott Joplin; | & the music of Ragtime | A most miscellaneous selection of criticism, both misguided & enlightened, poetry, comment & hyperbole.
[Toronto]: imprimerie dromadaire, [1983]. Octavo, 23.5 x 15 cm. Pamphlet stitched into grey Curtis Linen wraps with a magenta paper outer wrapper. Horizontal silver rules run across the magenta wrapper and the title is overprinted in wood-type on the upper cover. Unpaginated [pp. 20]. A few minor bumps to the extremities of the magenta wrapper, else a fine copy. The text was set in Linotype Palatino and printed on Mohawk Letterpress Text paper. 16-line Grecian wood-type was used for the title on the cover. The head and foot of each page is accented with Caravan borders printed in red. One of 125 copies produced for the Typocrafters’ 1983 meeting in St. Louis, “an important centre of ragtime and for many years the home of Scott Joplin.” The present copy is marked h/c. Selected for the AIGA Book Show 83. Item #359
“Glenn Goluska ragged the hell out of the old Linotype keyboard & vandercooked to the strains of recorded ragtime. Ragtime Annie did the binding, and our ragtime cat climbed in & out of the pressroom window across the bed of the Vandercook.”.
Price: $85.00