Binding: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine+
Edition: Limited Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; Signed by Author
Publisher: Heavenly Monkey, 2007, Vancouver

[Book #13135]

The edition of 50 signed and numbered copies (8vo, 12 pp) was issued in two states. The Miniscule state (numbers 16-50, this copy being #24) is a single signature sewn in a wrap of (different) paste paper made by Reg Lissel;

In 1949 Robert Reid celebrated inclusion of his first limited-edition book (The Fraser Mines Vindicated) in that year's Rounce & Coffin Club annual book show, by driving down the West Coast to see the exhibition. Along the way he stopped in San Francisco, and during just a few days there, managed to meet a number of the city's printing luminaries: the Grabhorn brothers, Col. Carroll Harris, and perhaps most memorable of all, William Everson, then at work on A Privacy of Speech. This brief account of the trip is written in Reid's customary style effusive for all things printed.

Set by hand in 18-pt Perpetua and printed in two colors with our handpress on dampened handmade HM Text paper. The frontis is a specially commissioned contemporary linocut portrait of Robert by Andrea Taylor of Cotton Socks Press