McPHEE, John - Gillian Conoley - Gary Snyder - Madeline DeFrees, William Stafford - Richard Eberhart. Roadkills: A Collection of Prose and Poetry. (1981 - SIGNED DELUXE LIMITED EDITION)
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AUTHOR: McPHEE, John - Gillian Conoley - Gary Snyder - Madeline DeFrees, William Stafford - Richard Eberhart.
TITLE: Roadkills: A Collection of Prose and Poetry.
PUBLISHER: Easthampton: Chelonidae Press, 1981.
DESCRIPTION: SIGNED DELUXE LIMITED EDITION. 1 vol., addition portfolio with an extra suite of plates each signed and numbered, 12-3/8" x 9-1/4", both housed in the original clamshell slipcase, illustrated by Alan James Robinson, limited to 50 numbered copies this being #29, signed by Alan James Robinson and each of the authors, book bound in 1/4 grey morocco, slipcase backed in brown morocco, each with matching blind tooled “tire tread” designs to spines.
CONDITION: LIKE NEW AS ISSUED.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: “Roadkills” is Alan James Robinson's third publication to which he contributed the illustrations and searched out fellow roadkill enthusiasts Gillian Conoley, Madeline DeFrees, Richard Eberhart, John McPhee, Gary Snyder, and William Stafford to provide the prose and poetry to the project. Although the topic sounds very quirky, the illustrator and authors do a remarkable job in handling this often encountered and frequently ignored slice of reality with dignity and grace. The wood engravings were printed on Cha-u-ke paper, and the etching and text on Sakomoto and Mulberry paper. All printing was done at Harold McGrath's Hampshire Typothetae, except for the single etching printed by the artist at the Cheloniidae Press.
About the Cheloniidae Press: Alan James Robinson founded the Cheloniidae Press with Joel Ginsburg in 1979 after receiving his MFA in printmaking from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 1989 he also founded ABCedary Productions with author Mark Philip Carol. Both of these presses merged in 1992 to form The Press of the Sea Turtle. Robinson designs and illustrates all of the books in collaboration with numerous artisans and craftsman, mostly from Western Massachusetts, a center of book-arts activity. All of Robinson's works are printed by celebrated master printer Harold P. McGrath.
