Beginnings; | Samplings from a long apprenticeship: novels which were imagined, written, re-written, submitted, rejected, abandoned, and supplanted
[Toronto]: Grand Union Press [printed by Glenn Goluska at The Nightshade Press], [1983]. Octavo, 23.7 x 15 cm. Cased in tan Carnival Kraft paper over boards, with wood-type lettering printed in black and red to the upper cover. Printed lettering to the spine. Yellow Carnival Groove endpapers. pp. [6] 7-29 [3]. The covers are slightly darkened; mild rubbing to the bottom 2 cm of the spine. Else, a fine copy. As the title suggests, the text is exordial: it consists of opening pages and first chapters of unpublished novels. Each of the five sections was set in a different typeface (with the exception of the first and third sections, both of which are set in Palatino), and each is accented with an opening initial using a different display type. The typefaces used are: Palatino with an Optima initial letter printed in red; Trade Gothic Extra Condensed with Gothic Outline in black; Palatino and Reiner Script in yellow; Falcon and Gill Sans in black; and Trajanus and Goudy Text in red. Carlyle Japan was used for text paper. Like the other two books issued under the Grand Union Press imprint (Kroetsch’s Letters to Salonika and Atwood’s Unearthing Suite), Beginnings was casebound by Michael Desjardins. From an edition of 175 copies, of which 150 were issued for sale. This copy is number 1. Signed by the author on the colophon page. Item #361
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