Publications which I do not have but hope to acquire Crane alphanumerics refer to entries in Guy Davenport: A Descriptive Bibliography
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The Intelligence of Louis Agassiz. 1963; reprint Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983. Originally published by Beacon Press, Boston. Crane A1.b1.
Carmina Archilochi: The Fragments of Archilochos. Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1964. Hardbound edition, dark blue cloth, gold stamping, dust wrapper. 1,000 copies. Crane A2.a1.
Coles ‘Odyssey’ Notes. 1967; reprint Coles Publishing Company, Toronto, Canada. 1978 printing, also 1979, 1982, 1983, 1984(?). Pirated printings of the Pennant Key-Indexed Study Guide to Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ Philadelphia, PA: Educational Research Associates, Inc. of America [and] New York: Bantam Books, Inc., 1967. Crane A6.b1 -- b5.
Coles ‘Iliad’ Notes. Ditto above (except 'Iliad'). Crane A7.b1 -- b5.
Da Vinci's Bicycle. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press [1979] Hardbound edition, green blue cloth, silver stamping on spine, dust wrapper. 1,100 copies. Crane A11.a1.
Jonah: A Story. New York: Nadja Press, 1986. Note: [13] pp. 29 cm. Limited edition: 126 copies. Referenced in JVSB ('87) Crane A28. With Prospectus.
August. Tuscaloosa, AL: The Close-Grip Press, 1986. Note: [16] pp. : ill. (part col.) ; 34 cm. Edition of 35 copies. University of Alabama, Fine Arts Department, Steve Miller. Crane A29.
Prospectus For ‘Herakleitos’. (1990) pp. [1-12] = 6 leaves. Crane A34.a1.
Herakleitos. Berkeley, CA: Peter Koch, 1990. pp. [1-48] = 24 leaves. Crane A35.a1.
Belinda's World Tour. Illustrations by Deborah Norden. New York: Dim Gray Bar Press and Barry Magid, 1991. Note: [41] pp. ; col. ill. ; 16 x 21 cm. 126 copies (26 reserved by publisher) in TGF ('93). Crane A36.a1.
Anakreon: The Extant Fragments. Translated by Guy Davenport. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama, Parallel Editions, 1991. Note from James S. Jaffe catalog 31, item 78: "Tall 8vo, wrappers with papyrus flyleaves ... 1st ed. Limited to 99 copies, of which 84 were bound in wrappers, signed by Davenport. New." Crane A37.
August Blue. Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press, 1992. Note: 31 pp. 26cm. in TGF ('93) Dark blue-green. 100 copies. Crane A38.a1.
The Lark. Story and Drawings by Guy Davenport. New York: Dim Gray Bar Press and Barry Magid, 1993. 16 pp. ill. 8 by 9 in. Note: Prospectus card of publisher. $85. A letterpress edition of 100 signed clothbound copies, hand set in Centaur and Arrighi types. Crane A40.a1.
From Amazon: Letterpress limited edition of this story, with four illustrations by the author drawn especially for this edition. Hand set and printed at the Center for Book Arts in New York City. Cloth binding by Campbell-Logan Bindery. Japanese Shekishu paper illustrated dust jacket. The entire edition consists of only 100 copies, each signed by Guy Davenport.
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