The real world of Manuel Córdova, W.S. Merwin

Resource Information

The instance The real world of Manuel Córdova, W.S. Merwin represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library.

Label

The real world of Manuel Córdova, W.S. Merwin

Statement of responsibility

W.S. Merwin

Instantiates

• The real world of Manuel Córdova

Publication

• Sherman Oaks, Calif., Ninja Press, 1995

Note

• Limited ed. of 160 signed and numbered copies, along with 18 lettered hors commerce
• "Reprinted from Travels published by Alfred Knopf, Inc., New York, pp. 96-114"--Colophon
• Based upon actual events in the life of Manuel Córdova-Rios (1887-1978) as told to F. Bruce Lamb and subsequently published under the title, Wizard of the Upper Amazon
• "This special edition ... was printed from hand-set Samson Uncial type onto kakishibu, a persimmon-washed handmade paper ... The text, which is housed in an accordion-style binding, may be unfolded and read in hand, stanza by stanza, or opened entirely, thus revealing all forty-three, fourteen-line stanzas. Fully extended, the book is fifteen feet long. The image of a river undulates alongside the poem ... The river is printed from photopolymer plates in five colors gradually intermingling one after the other. The book is held within an enclosure of handmade papers--the outermost being a loft-dried, 100 percent raw flax sheet made under the direction of Timothy Barrett at the Center for the Book Papermaking Facility at the University of Iowa. The enclosure is lined with kakishibu on which is printed a map of the world, the first to show the world's currents, drawn by Athanasius Kircher in 1665. The map is hand-tinted in five colors echoing the colors of the river. The enclosure is fastened with alum-tawed goat skin and bone. The design, presswork, and binding are by Carolee Campbell at Ninja Press."--Prospectus
• Contained in a plexiglass slipcase

Dimensions

10 x 34 cm.

Extent

1 folded leaf

Isbn

9780961459796

Note

• Clark Library has copy no. 137.
• Spec. Coll. copy is number 47 of a limited edition of 160 copies. In orange leather and gray and gold decorated paper clamshell box; gold-stamped spine label "The real world of Manuel Cordova. Merwin." Purchase, Ninja Press, 1996; gift of the Friends of the Library.

Other physical details

ill, map.

Record ID

4561121

System control number

• (OCoLC)34381361
• ucoclc34381361