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Title

Manuscripts and proofs

Shelfmark

MS. Gehenna Press c. 41

Summary

Comprises:

(fols. 1-76) Manuscript texts (with some printer's notes)

(fols. 78-80) Letters from the printer, Art Larson (enclosures missing or dispersed)

(fols. 81-342) Assorted annotated text proofs (organised progressively by text rather than set, so interleaves proofs from (unidentified) numbered sequences). In order according to the paginated printer's dummy (MS. Gehenna Press c. 42)

(fols. 343-70) Full colour proofs, incomplete set

(fols. 371-83) Colophon proofs, with one signed colophon proof

(fols. 384) Overprinted art portrait proof - probably of Herman Zapf