THE TERRIFIC DAYS OF SUMMER.
Designed by Mike Hudson. Long single sheet printed in a variety of colours on one side only and folded concertina-style to form 25 pages, illustrated with relief printed collographs and monoprints which have been further illuminated by painting directly on individual pages; med. folio; within a pictorial cream cloth box with navy cloth sides and shoe-lace side-tie, slightly soiled and marked, with a couple of tiny faint bruises; [accompanied by] a smaller separate Introduction by George Alexander, illustrated in colour and folded concertina-style into 12 pages (bottom fore-corner of colophon a trifle creased), housed within a printed blue paper pocket on the reverse of the box lid; The Wayzgoose Press, Katoomba, NSW, 1998. Edition limited to 35 numbered copies, signed by the publishers, Mike Hudson and Jadwiga Jarvis; this being number 5 of 30 copies thus bound. *With the original pictorial prospectus (title page a trifle soiled) loosely inserted. A 'typographical interpretation' of Ken Bolton's poem, which is set in Glebe, Sydney in 1975: 'the repeated graphic forms (the wavy line & the twin brackets, the 'sticks', squares and spots, the ballooning orange 'cloud' forms) herd, cajole & tease the text forward' [prospectus]. Item #134538
Price: $4,000.00