The Totem Protectorates.

Beschreibung

Being the Assignment of Same to the Honorable Senators, Lawmakers of the United States Government, toward the Preservation of Life and Spirit in these Lands. This Investiture Proclaimed in Grace Cathedral at the Autumnal Equinox, 1971. First separate edition. Small folio, unpaginated; blank, title leaf, [6pp.], colophon leaf, sewn into the original stiff Tweedweave brown paper wrapper, foreedge of upper portion untrimmed with titles in a darker brown, printed on Bergstrom. San Francisco, Hermes Free Press [Zephyrus Image], Spring 1972. Near fine book, a few faint fingermarks on the wrapper, lacks the printed manila envelope. Very rare in commerce and scarce institutionally with four copies only on Worldcat and all but one in the USA. Another is deposited in Creeley's papers at Stanford. In Johnston p-175 (illustrated on p-174); the first item discussed in the bibliography. No copies in Morgan C678 & 679 for a later reprint of the 'poem' & also Sherlock D-287, 320 & 321, McNeill C406, 437 for ? 'Totem Protectors' and the incomplete 'The Totem Protectorates'. Provenance: old Maggs pencil stock code in back from sale to LSD Library. Santo Domingo's collection also contained a copy of a six sheet, possibly abandoned, deluxe issue on fine paper printed on rectos only, also sold to him by Maggs and now possibly in the Houghton Library. This is an early publication from the so called 'labor donation' arm of the Zephyrus Image and the first significant book produced by them. A high water mark in books relating to environmental activism. written in the form of a list of U.S. Senators who were '.assigned specific endangered plants and animals.' (op cit). With, for example, the then 'Junior Senator from Florida, the Honourable Lawton Chiles, [as] totem protector for the FLORIDA MANATEE'. A copy of the book was mailed to each of a 100 senators, this un-mailed copy was bought from Teter's archive via Serendipity Books (though there were other copies in envelopes if memory serves me well). 134681.

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Titel

The Totem Protectorates.

Einband

Soft cover

Auflage

1st Edition

Zustand

Fine

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