Sunblind Highway; | selected poems 2009-2016
[Vancouver]: Heavenly Monkey, 2016. Octavo, 25.8 x 16.8 cm. Sewn to show into paste-paper wraps covered with a diaphanous Japanese paper outer wrapper. The paste-paper was combed with a subtle pattern in pale silver. The title is printed in gilt to the upper cover of the Japanese paper outer wrapper and Budd’s name is printed to the upper cover of the inner paste-paper wrapper; the latter is visible through its semi-transparent Japanese paper covering. The lower paste-paper cover is printed simply with ‘HM’ in gilt. The wrappers are strengthened with stiff blue card stock. Unpaginated [pp. 16; plus ll. 1: inset plate on Japanese paper]. A fine copy. The text was set in Bodoni, with larger Bodoni printed in pale bronze for display; printed on Arches Wove paper. Illustrated with three arabesque drawings by Harold Budd. The frontispiece drawing, which was printed on the verso facing the title-page, is repeated without a border on the verso of a leaf of Japanese paper; the additional leaf is inset between the original frontispiece-page and the title-page. The inset frontis perfectly overlays the original when facing the title, and the border surrounding its companion is faintly visible through its semi-transparent Japanese paper. The drawings were reproduced from polymer plates. From an edition of 100 copies. The present copy belongs to the first (or deluxe) state comprising 20 issued copies. This copy is out of series and is marked ‘H.C. T/4’ in pencil. Signed in pencil by Harold Budd on the colophon page. “One hundred copies of this collection have been printed in conjunction with the author’s performance at Vancouver’s PuSh Festival, January 23, 2016.”. Item #382
“A collection of eight poems selected from Harold’s books Colorful Fortune, Angel, 4 and Aurora Teardrops, plus two published here for the first time. A modest single-signature publication for distribution at Harold’s concert performances of the Aurora Teardrops poems, starting with his Vancouver debut (January 2016). He signed the special copies, and all of the colophons for the not-yet-printed Aurora Teardrops, at the venue after the sound check.” — Rollin Milroy (This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven, 1.34).
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