BOOKS AND BROADSIDES
A COLORED POEM (1985)
Production notes
Five drawings on tissue by McGraw
Five etching plates
Note
Five hand-painted plate proofs
Handset type plate - Page form for table of contents
Letterpress proofs of table of contents, annotated
Letterpress proofs of poem stanzas, in actual size of book
Colophon - Edited typescript of text and signed letterpress proof
First trial clamshell box - Plate proofs on cloth and paper, includes sketch on tissue
First trial clamshell box - Hand-painted plate proof 27/40 signed by McGraw
Two first trial clamshell boxes for housing prints
Final clamshell box - Etching plate for cover
Final clamshell box - Plate proofs on cloth and paper
Promotional material - Sketch of layout [for broadside ?]
THE HOUSE THE POET BUILT (1985)
Preface - Edited typescripts
Preface - Paste-ups
Six plate proofs
Plate proofs with text, signed by McGraw
Three hand-painted plate proofs
Letterpress proofs
Biography page - Edited typescripts
Biography page - Letterpress proofs, includes photograph
Biography page - Plate, not used
Colophon - Annotated typescript
Clamshell box cover - Etching plate
Clamshell box - Plate proof
Clamshell box - Hand-painted plate proof
Plate case, decorated wooden box
Note
Promotional material - Drawing on tissue by McGraw
Promotional material - Etching plate for invitation
Promotional material - Two plate proofs, one hand-painted
Promotional material - Letterpress proof
MIDNIGHT CARNIVAL (1988)
Production notes and correspondence
Foreword - Edited typescripts and letterpress proofs
Table of contents - Nine cut blocks
Note
Table of contents - Eight plate proofs with specifications
Seven drawings on tissue by McGraw
Nine etching plates
Note
Twelve plate proofs
McGraw's color chart
Four hand-painted plate proofs
Galley proofs, edited
Paste-ups
Photograph print and negative of author and artist for book
Clamshell box - Drawing on tissue by McGraw, color specifications and two plate proofs
Clamshell box - Etching plate
Complete mock-up with template for paper tearing and clamshell box
Production notes
THE MOUSE AND THE WOMAN (1988)
Title page - Tissues and layouts
Copyright page, edited, used for "display type" and photocopies of text
Layout specifications
Thirteen drawings on tissue by Renner
Seventeen woodcut blocks, includes "Schultz - birds" by Renner
Fifty-four woodcut trial proofs signed by Renner
Note
Woodcut proof, not used
Galley proofs, corrected
Paste-ups
Letterpress proofs
Letterpress proofs, includes sample prints of handset Coslon (copy #135, signed by Renner), annotated
Chapter numerals - Twenty-four woodcut blocks, missing #23
Chapter numerals - Drawings on tissue, paste-ups, edited layout proofs, and color samples
Colophon - Edited typescripts and letterpress proof overlayed with sketch on tissue, signed by Renner
Bookcover - Drawing on tissue by Renner and finished cover
Four mock-ups, includes signed woodcut proofs by Renner
Promotional materials - Sketch, edited typescripts, paste-ups, edited letterpress proofs, and final proof
Note
HARD TRAVELING (1989)
Correspondence regarding production 1989 - 1990
Production notes
Title page - Woodcut block of shoe, not used
Title page - Two hand-painted proofs, not used
Introduction - Typescript of drafts, paste-ups and letterpress proof
Twelve drawings on tissue by McGraw, missing tissue for plate #8
Note
Eleven etching plates, includes plate for title page, not used
Ten plate proofs
Eleven hand-painted plate proofs
Rubber stamps - Numeral specifications
Rubber stamps (27 letters, 18 numerals and 7 misc.)
Note
Woodcut folio - Woodcut templates on card board (Shovel, Hammer, Shoe, and Hand)
Woodcut folio - Woodcut blocks (for Burning House, Shoe, Tower, Hand, and Hammer)
Woodcut folio - Woodcut proof of Shoe
Woodcut folio - Hand-painted proof of Hammer, not used
Woodcut folio - Enclosure mock-up for folios with specifications
Woodcut folio - Enclosures, rejected
Woody Guthrie letter - Selected copies of letters, annotated
Woody Guthrie letter - Paste-ups
Woody Guthrie letter - Woodcut block
Letterpress proofs, annotated
Photographs for clamshell box and colophon
Colophon - Draft and letterpress proofs, (1/90 signed by McGraw)
Clamshell box - Template for lettering
Clamshell boxes - Three handpainted mock-ups
Template for paper tearing
Promotional materials - Edited typescripts, "Rambling Shoe" postcard and catalog
JANET AND DELOSS (1990)
Correspondence with Michael T. Ryan regarding production
Correspondence, letters between Lewis and McGraw
Production notes
Twenty-one drawings on tissue by McGraw and nine templates
Title page - Sketch and letterpress proofs
Introduction - Edited typescript and galley proofs
Woodcut blocks for plates #1-9
Nine woodcut proofs
Ten woodcut proofs hand-painted by McGraw
Typescript of selected poems
Paste-ups
Letterpress proofs, edited
Letterpress proofs, includes colophon signed by Lewis and McGraw
Biographies, drafts
Colophon - Drafts, letterpress proof and photograph of "persimmons"
Clamshell box - Mock-up materials and sample of text on fabric
Clamshell box - Mock-up, not used
Promotional materials - Sketches, layout, letterpress proofs, and hand-painted broadside signed by authors
Articles about book
Directions to Janet's house
PAPER OF LIVE FLESH (1990)
Production notes
Title page - Sketch on card board
Title page - Letterpress proofs with different colored inks
Layout and specifications
Chine colle
Fifteen plate proofs, includes plate proofs not used
Paste-ups
Four plate proofs with text, page layouts
Manuscripts and edited typescripts
Letterpress proofs
Colophon - Manuscript and edited typescripts with note
Mock-up
Mock-up, Romero's proof
SHE SAID: I TELL YOU IT DOESN'T HURT ME (1991)
Production notes
Title font selection
Table of contents - Letterpress proofs
Two drawings on tissue by Neri
Four etching plates
Two etching plates, not used
Two plate proofs
Hand-painted plate proof, annotated
Typescripts, edited
Galley proofs
Mary Julia's suggestion for text
Biographies and colophon, edited
Bookcover - Layouts and sketches
Bookcover - Two plate proofs on fabric, includes note
Mock-up
Promotional materials - Typescripts and brochure
Broom brushes for applying resist to etching plates
STERNBERG: A LIFE IN WOODCUTS (1991)
Correspondence regarding production, includes letters from Sternberg
Correspondence with Alfred Kazin regarding his writing of the introduction
Production notes
Foreword - Edited typescript and galley proofs
Twenty-three original drawings by Sternberg
Woodcut block, title
Woodcut block for #36 [oversize]
Woodcut blocks #1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10-14, 16.
Woodcut blocks 17-19, 21-23, 25, 27-31
Woodcut blocks 32-35
Note
Woodcut blocks for numerals 1-36
Woodcut blocks, four decorative designs [not used]
Paste-ups
Six woodcut proofs, includes thirty-seven proofs corrected by Sternberg
Woodcut proof with text (page layout sample)
Two woodcut proofs, not used
Biographical chronology - Research materials, edited typescripts and letterpress proofs
Colophon - Edited typescripts
Bookcover - Proofs of photograph and border design
Bookcover - Mock-up with photograph paste-up
Bookcover - Rejected cover cloth and binding design
Four mock-ups
Note
Promotional materials - Edited typescripts, notes, paste-ups, announcement cards, and articles
ARTIFICIO PARA SOBREVIVIR (1992)
Correspondence regarding production, includes letters from de Szyszlo
Three drawings on tissue by de Szyszlo
Black-and-white gradation strip for color range
Etching plate for cover
Note
Fifteen etching plates
Twenty plate proofs
Eleven hand-painted plate proofs
Layout, "1:1 type high mount (not screened - no dot)" [copy of plate proof with cut-outs, mounted]
Plate proof, includes sketches on verso
Paste-ups
Typescripts, with editor's notes
Two proofs with text
Three hand-painted plate proofs, not used
Colophon - Edited typescripts
DROUGHT (1992)
Burgess's drawing on tissue, matted
Collagraph plate
Dry point plate
Two hand-painted proofs, annotated
Typescripts, edited
Note
FLAME (1992)
Two drawings on tissue by Burgess
Two etching plates
Eight plate proofs, one signed by Burgess
PILGRIMS (1992)
Correspondence with Julia Talcott 1991
Production notes
Compositional sketches, includes correspondence
Ten woodcut proofs, annotated photocopies
Two woodcut proofs, colored
Typescripts, annotated
Note
Text and ink color samples
Letterpress proofs
Colophon - Typescripts
Fabric sample [for cover?]
POEM MADE OF WATER (1992)
Production notes
Introduction note by Nancy Willard
Title page - Sketch on a mock-up folio
Chine colle pieces for plate #2
Copper dry point plates for folio 1 and 2
Copper dry point plates for folio 3, 4 and 5
Etching plate for box cover
Stencil, template and hand-painted paper for plate #5
Note
Hand-painted plate proof for plate #5 with text
Hand-painted folios - Trial laminations, none worked
Hand-painted folios - Trial sample for paste paper
Acrylic template used to make hand-painted folios
Paste-ups
Letterpress proofs
Colophon - Edited typescripts and letterpress proof, includes correspondence
Notes from Jill Jevne regarding cover for clamshell box
Clamshell box - Ribbon samples
Mock-up
Promotional materials - Paste-up, edited typescript and announcement cards
SKIN OF GRACE (1992)
Manuscript mock-up with cover
Paste-up and mock-up
TERRITORY (1993)
Correspondence regarding production
Production notes regarding type
First manuscript
Typescripts, edited
Table of contents, edited
Title page - Paste-ups, not used
A - Title page - Letterpress proof
Introduction - Edited typescripts
A - Three etching plates for frontispiece, not used
A - Eight etching plates, not used
A - Eleven plate proofs, cut-outs and bookcover layout
A - Fifteen hand-painted plate proofs, not used
A - Paper sample
A - Mock-up, old imposition
A - Mock-up
B - Title page - Paste-ups
B - Page mock-ups for lithographs with specifications
B - Seven lithogragh proofs signed by Neri
B - Two lithograph proofs signed by Neri, not used
B - Paste-ups
B - Type layout proofs, includes title page
B - Letterpress proofs
Afterword by Mary Julia Klimenko, edited typescripts
Biographies, edited
Colophon - Edited typescript, includes correspondence
B - Paper samples
B - Binding materials, samples and correspondence
B - Mock-up, imposition
Promotional materials - Paste-ups
MAHLER (1994)
Correspondence regarding production
Production notes
Eight etching plates
Etching plate, not used
Fourteen early plate proofs
Eighteen plate proofs
Plate proof, portrait of Prochazka
Two plate proofs, portrait of Hanzlicek and Prochazka
Ink color proofs for title page plate background and type
Twenty-two state plate proofs, not used
Note
Eighteen state plate proofs, not used
Note
Typescripts
Galley proofs, edited
Layout specifications
Paste-ups
Letterpress proofs
Letterpress proofs, edited
Proofs for positioning text and plates
Template (#D2") for positioning plates [?]
Letterpress proofs, final for color
Colophon - Typescripts
Practice colophon signatures on edited letterpress proof
Color samples - Ink, paper and fabric
Three mock-ups, impositions
Paste-up and mock-up, includes sample binding materials and notes
Prototype
Two mock-ups, not used
Promotional material - Paste-up
PROCRUSTES INN REGISTER (1995)
Correspondence regarding production
Letters from Cremean
Production notes
Meeting notes
Note from phone call between Cremean and Burgess
Title page layout and nine proofs
Title for type [?], not used
Two handwritten manuscripts and eight proofs of monologue
Note
Two sample monologue plates, not used
Two monologue plates
Seven drawings for drypoint engravings by Cremean
Six trial proofs to familiarize Cremean with drypoint engraving, includes sketch on tissue
Sixteen proofs of drypoint engravings with Cremean's comments
Relief sculpture with text imprint
Eight embossed proofs
Eight embossed proofs identified with sample ink color for text
Text plates #1-7
Text plate #5, not used [sample only]
Letterpress proof for print quality
Seven text proofs
Twenty-one text proofs in different colors
Plexiglass template for positioning relief sculpture [?]
Seventeen proofs of embossing, text and drypoint engravings
Five page proofs - Good first pull, not used
Colophon - Letterpress proof
Clamshell box label, layout and five proofs
Clamshell box label plate, not used
Mock-up, includes first appeared prints signed by Cremean in clamshell box
Promotional materials - Edited typescript, layouts and letterpress proof
SEVEN PASSAGES TO A FLIGHT (1997)
Production notes
Sketches on newsprint
Nine etching plates
Eight plate proofs, first pulls on paper
Nine plate proofs, hand-painted on a large sheet of fabric
Fabric samples for book pages
Five plate proofs in different colored inks on fabric
Three plate proofs on fabric
Two paste-ups, hand-painted
Six hand-painted plate proofs and text positioning
Twenty-one proofs for coloring borders, includes specifications and templates
Etching plates for numerals, two sets of 8
Numerals - Plate proof
Typescripts, edited and page layout for "Today I make murals..."
Type layouts
Sample typefaces, not used
Camera ready text for polymer plates for book
Polymer plates for type
Note
Letterpress proofs on paper
Letterpress proofs on fabric
Mock-up of a chapter, hand-painted plate proof with text
Colophon - Edited typescript
Template for clamshell box and page design
Clamshell box design paste-up with specifications and cloth samples
Mock-up (and paste-ups) with corrections and specifications
FORCE = EQUAL (1997)
Production notes
Four sketches by Kelly
Drypoint etching plates
Note
Title page - Proofs on paper and vellum
Title page - Corrected plate proof
Ink drawing for etching
Four plate proofs
Two plate proof with text
Stencil for coloring [plate #4]
Hand-painted plate proof of centerspread, early version and stencil [plate #4]
Letterpress proofs, corrected by Kelly
Paste-ups
Colophon - Edited letterpress proof
Mock-up (and paste-ups) with specifications
Mock-up, annotated
SLEEPING INSIDE THE GLACIER (1997)
Correspondence with Sandra Alcosser
Production notes
Artist's tissue for plate #3 and #4
Paste-ups on ink drawing [plate #6]
Ink washes
Eleven etching plates
Etching plate, plate #1
Six plate proofs on different paper surfaces
Four collagraph plates
Etching proof on collagraph
Two collagraph proofs for etching prints
Six plate proofs with text
Twelve plate proofs and sketch, for plates not used
Text, annotated photocopies
Title page - Type size and layout selections
Galley proofs
Stats for polymer plates (type)
Polymer plates for type
Letterpress proofs, annotated by author
Letterpress proofs on collagraph, annotated
Vellum proofs [for binding]
Early mock-up
SWIMMING LESSONS (1999)
Drawing in graphite for broadside on front and back side
Etching plate
Two plate proofs
Letterpress proofs
Promotional material - Typescript
WHEN THERE WERE TREES (1999)
Printing specifications, mock-ups, color palette lists, and handwritten notes on the printing process 1996 - 1999
"Editor's Palette" displaying different colored paper for different editons 1996 - 1999
ADMINISTRATIVE FILES
MIDNIGHT CARNIVAL 1988 - 1990
Note
HARD TRAVELING 1988 - 1989
Note
JANET AND DELOSS: POEMS AND PICTURES 1988 - 1994
Note
PAPER OF LIVE FLESH 1990 - 1991
Note
SHE SAID: I TELL YOU IT DOESN'T HURT ME 1991 - 1993
Note
STERNBERG: A LIFE IN WOODCUTS 1991 - 1999
Note
ARTIFICIO PARA SOBREVIVIR: DEVICE FOR SURVIVAL 1988 - 2001
Note
POEM MADE OF WATER 1991 - 1995
Note
MAHLER: POEMS AND ETCHINGS 1993 - 2000
Note
PROCRUSTES INN REGISTER 1993 - 1997
Note
PROCRUSTES INN REGISTER 1993 - 1997
Note
PROCRUSTES INN REGISTER 1993 - 1997
Note
SEVEN PASSAGES 1992 - 1995
Note
SLEEPING INSIDE THE GLACIER 1993 - 1997
Note
ADAM AND EVE'S LAMENT 1995
Note
WHEN THERE WERE TREES 1996 - 1999
Note
WHEN THERE WERE TREES 1996 - 1999
Note
WHEN THERE WERE TREES 1996 - 1999
Note
Originals of Preservation Photocopies