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The Burden of the Beholder
The Same River Twice
From Dante
A City As Once Seen
Writing with Tagore
Where Water Meets
Mercredi
The Waiting Room, a One-Act Play
The Skull
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The Drunken Boat
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The Lizard's Question
The First Celestial Adventure of Mister Benzedrine
Silence
The Poem Emerges
Robert Fludd's Creation
Carved by Obadiah Verity
Daedalus
Ecclesiastes: the Preacher
The Cycle of the Day. A Book of Hours
Bearing South: Antarctica at Sea
Selection of Poems by Helen Hunt Jackson and Emily Dickinson
Inversnaid
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The Girl with the Pearl Earring
Twelve Mammal Skulls
Of Cottonballs and Caring: Some Poems and Prints
Marianne Moore at the Dial
Color for the Letterpress
Nightway
Seven Fables
A Perfect Prodigy: Melville on the Birth of Malcolm
Hay Journal
General William Jackson Palmer
Tattoo Parlor & Other Fraxioms
Dentelle / Indented
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Carmen Statuta Comprehendens Modumque Vivendi Honestum Scolarium Sive Studentum
A Letter to Myself to Water
Fire in the Wax Museum
Seven Characters
Sappho Poems
Reverdure
Seven Poems

A Perfect Prodigy: Melville on the Birth of Malcolm

by Herman Melville
1986

Previously unpublished letter of Herman Melville’s. Published by the New York Public Library and the Press at Colorado College. Bembo type printed on papers handmade by Tom Leech. 5 photoengravings by Charles Moore, ship illustrations printed in brown, handwritten letter printed in black, typeset version of letter printed in blue. Binding of blue cloth over boards, title stamped in cover. Ben Trissel assisted with printing. 15 pages. Edition of 230 copies. 12¹/₂“ x 9¹/₂“.