Triada
Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 1978. First edition. Limited to 150 clothbound copies. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the half-title page. 107pp. Small quarto [25cm]; full russet brown colored cloth over boards. Initials of the author are blind stamped on the front board. Printed title label affixed to the spine. Burnt orange colored endpapers. The spine and edges of the boards are sunfaded, and the fore-edges of the front boards are very lightly spotted. Else, this is a nice, clean, and solid copy. Very Good. Item #71017
ISBN: 0914742345
One of only one hundred fifty (150) copies bound in cloth over boards and signed by the poet. This work collects Hamill's "Heroes of the Teton Mythos," "Solstice from Tao," and "Longhair" together in one volume. The colophon reads: "This book was composed Monotype by Scott Freutel at the Spring Valley Press. The text is 12 pt. Italian Old Style, designed by America's premier type designer, Frederic W. Goudy. The book was designed and printed by Tree Swenson & Sam Hamill on a hand-fed Chandler & Price platen press. The paper is Rives buff. One hundred fifty copies have been sewn into cloth over boards by Lincoln & Allen of Portland, and signed by the poet."
American poet and translator Sam Hamill (1943–2018) was also co-founder of the influential Copper Canyon Press. Over his five-decade career, he published poetry collections, taught in prisons, and founded Poets Against the War, a movement to protest the 2003 Iraq invasion. Copper Canyon Press is a nonprofit, independent poetry publisher that "believes poetry is vital to language and living." The press was founded by Sam Hamill, Tree Swenson, and other associates in 1972 in Denver, CO, and moved to Port Townsend, WA in 1974.
Price: $75.00