Grasp the Sparrow's Tail (1982)

Submitted by:
srudy
April, 2009

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Printed by Fred Wah in an edition of 300 copies in Kyoto, Japan for family and friends. Blue hand-made paper; saddle-stitched with purple string; title written in calligraphy on white paper.

Citation

title:

Grasp the Sparrow's Tail

title without prefix:

Grasp the Sparrow's Tail

full citation:

Wah, Fred. Grasp the Sparrow’s Tail. Kyoto, Japan: Nagata Bunshodo, 1982.

publication date:

1982

first published:

1982

archival date:

2009

number of pages:

30

print run:

300

genre:

Poetry chapbook

catalogue description:

A14 GRASP THE SPARROW’S TAIL 1982

Grasp | The | Sparrows | Tail
Pp. [1-30]
5 x 7 in.; 13 x 18 cm. Blue hand-made paper, saddle-stitched with purple string, title is written in calligraphy on white paper. Cover is reinforced with white paper on the inside.

[1] half-title; [2] blank; [3] title page; [4] copyright; [5] dedication: “ For my Father and his family” + poem beginning “You never did the `horse’ like I do now”; [6-29] text; [30] colophon: This edition of 300 copies of | GRASP THE SPARROW’S TAIL | printed by the author for family and friends | at NAGATA BUNSHODO Kyoto, Japan | November 20, 1982. [Not paginated.]

Published in Kyoto; November 20, 1982; an edition of 300 copies. Published by Nagata Bunshodo.

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