Lardeau (1965)

Submitted by:
srudy
December, 2008

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Selected first poems by Fred Wah. Yellow card cover and black tape along spine. Printed in an edition of 350 of which 6 are specially bound and not for sale.

Citation

title:

Lardeau

title without prefix:

Lardeau

subtitle:

Selected first poems by Fred Wah

full citation:

Wah, Fred. Lardeau: Selected first poems by Fred Wah. Toronto: Island Press, 1965.

publication date:

1965

first published:

1965

archival date:

2008

number of pages:

52

publisher name:

Island Press

imprint:

Lardeau: Selected first poems by Fred Wah

print run:

350

genre:

Poetry

catalogue description:

A1 LARDEAU 1965

a. Cloth Issue:
LARDEAU | Selected first poems by | FRED WAH | ISLAND PRESS [device] Toronto
Pp. [1-52]
8 ½ x 6 ¾ in.; 21 ½ x 17 ½ cm. Yellow card cover and black tape along spine.

[1] title-page; [2] acknowledgements; [3] dedication: For Pauline… [4] blank; [5-31] text; [32] blank; [33-51] text; [52] colophon.

Colophon: June 1965 An edition of 350 of which 6 | are specially bound and are not for sale.

Printed in Toronto, June 1965, 6 copies, at no price.

Titles: A QUIET MORNING—THE STEPPING BEHIND—MY HORSE—THE RABBIT—SONG FOR SALLY—THE SMILE—THE SEANCERS AT DEANESHAVEN—ARBUTUS ISLAND, AS I SEE IT—THE FIGURING—THE OCTOBER ARGUMENT—MOONDOG—EYES—ACROBAT ON A BALL—IN THE AFTERNOON, SUNDAY—A FABLE—THE FIRE—LARDEAU / SUMMER 1964—SHAPE-OF-A-BIRD-WITH-STARS-IN-ITS-EYES—the roads—the cruise—WHEN—climb—akokli (goat) creek—GOLD HILL—THEY ARE BURNING—MORNING—THE COLD SNOW FEET—from MOUNTAIN.

b. Paper Issue: as A1a, but staple bound with card wrappers; 350 copies.