Looking in a Deeper Lair: A Tribute to Wallace Stegner (with signed intaglio print by Suellen Larkin)

  • SIGNED Hardcover
  • Eugene, OR: Lone Goose Press, 1996
By Lopez, Barry
Eugene, OR: Lone Goose Press, 1996. Limited Edition (one of the 26 lettered copies). Hardcover. Fine. SIGNED. Oblong octavo [18 cm] 1/4 red cloth with tan paper over boards. In a red cloth covered clamshell box with a paper title label on the spine. An essay which originally appeared in Northern Lights, based on remarks Lopez made at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, April 27, 1995, when he joined Ivan Doig, Gretel Ehrlich, William Kittredge, Page Stegner, and Terry Tempest Williams in an evening of testimony to honor Wallace Stegner.

This limited edition of Barry Lopez's 1996 Pushcart Prize-winning essay was designed, printed and bound by Sandy Tilcock. It is printed from handset Perpetua types on Zerkall German Ingres paper using a Vandercook 219 proofing press. The edition size is 179 copies consisting of 150 numbered, signed, soft-cover copies and 29 deluxe, hardcover copies, signed and boxed, featuring an intaglio print by Suellen Larkin (#9/32). Of the deluxe edition 26 are lettered A through Z and 3 are designated as artist's copies.

This copy is one of the 26 copies lettered A through Z, and signed by Barry Lopez. It is Copy E printed for Earle Henness, the late proprietor of The Beaverdam Press. Earle Henness printed using the old-fashioned method; from lead type, hand-feeding the paper to Chandler & Price platen presses.

Sandy Tilcock's limited edition books have attained international recognition for their design, creative use of materials, precise typography, and attention to detail.

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