• Last Blue / Gerald Stern;Barry Magid; William Bixler; Winifred Bixler
Last Blue / Gerald Stern;Barry Magid; William Bixler; Winifred Bixler Last Blue / Gerald Stern;Barry Magid; William Bixler; Winifred Bixler

Last Blue / Gerald Stern;Barry Magid; William Bixler; Winifred Bixler

Pamphlet bindings

FA.B57.0330
Fine Art Collection
4 leaves; 20.6 x 12.8 cm
1998
Barry Magid, Michael Bixler, Winifred Bixler
Dim Gray Bar Press
Center for Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Competition
Gerald Stern
New York City
Chapbooks, letterpress printing
CBA copy 1 of 2. Number 38 in an Edition of 75; signed by the author. Pamphlet bound with hand sewn binding. Black double-fold wrappers have a graphic floral pattern printed in blue ink. Book contains letterpress printed original poetry. "Gerald Stern was the final judge of the 1998 Center for Book Arts Poetry Contest. Seventy-five copies of LAST BLUE have been printed on the occasion of his reading at the Center with the winner, James Haug, on October 16, 1998. The text was set in Gill Sans Monotype by Michael and Winifred Bixler, printed letterpress on Lana paper, and sewn in Xylem Midnight Blue wrappers by Barry Magid..."--Colophon.