10 Poems
[Vancouver]: William Hoffer [printed by Glenn Goluska at the Nightshade Press], 1985. Octavo, 24 x 15.2 cm. Cased in quarter black cloth and tan paper over boards. The upper cover is printed in black with a sample of the menu from ‘the Hungarian’s’, a restaurant figuring prominently in this collection of Sibum’s poems: “I still take my lunches / in the domain of your old nemesis: / The Hungarian. Deaf in one ear, / he is still painfully slow bringing a menu.” Printed paper label to the spine. Plain dark brown endpapers. Unpaginated [pp. 32; plus loose erratum leaf]. A few barely perceptible scuffs to the covers. Else fine. The text was designed and set by Glenn Goluska in Linotype Trump Medieval, foundry City Medium, and an unidentified wood type. It was printed on mouldmade beige Zerkall Nideggen paper. The poems are numbered in the margins with wood type printed in rust-red. Many of the page heads are accented with a line of type ornaments, also printed in rust-red. The binding was done by Michael Desjardins. An erratum leaf is laid in at the rear: “the observant reader may well notice a slight discrepancy between the information contained in the contents page and the actual order of poems four & five. He or she should feel free to mentally transpose either the contents page or the poems themselves. The printer, upon making this depressing discovery, and after midnight phone calls to Vancouver, decided to do neither. Hence this erratum slip, which no true collector will want his copy to be without.” The erratum is printed with display wood type in red on dark beige wove paper. It measures 16.9 x 10.9 cm. From an edition of 100 copies. This is number 87. Signed in ink by Norm Sibum on the colophon page. (Woodsworth, Cheap Sons of Bitches: The Publications of William Hoffer. A37). Item #362
Price: $150.00