Black Butterfly / Judith Vollmer; Michail Magaril [et.al.]

Identifier:FA.B59.0335

Dimensions:11 double side panels; 30 x 15.4 cm

Creation dates:1997

Subjects: chapbooks, folded books, letterpress printing

Description:CBA copy 1 of 2; Number 29 in an Edition of 100, signed by the poet. Accordion bound chapbook with black covers and a navy blue dust jacket with butterfly silhouette cut-out. "Black Butterfly won the 1997 Center for Book Arts Poetry Chapbook Contest. The judges were Sharon Dolin and Mark Doty. The text was set in Gill Sans monotype by Michael Bixler and printed letterpress by Barry Magid on Arches paper. The accordion binding and illustration were designed by Mickhail Magraril; the butterfly cut-out is by Beatrice Coron...90 copies are bound in Beckett Ridge wrappers and 10 deluxe copies in boards."--Colophon.