Heading: (Chayt, Steven and Meryl - Kenmore Press)
Author: Lane, Arthur
Title: Original manuscript by Arthur Lane, with publishing archive for Dancing in the Dark, and a copy of the book
Place Published: Pasadena, CA
Publisher:Kenmore Press
Date Published: 1977
Description:

Original manuscript and archive with a copy of Dancing in the Dark. Includes:

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  Typescript and carbons (with some photocopied leaves) with manuscript emendations in blue ink. 28x21.6 cm (11x8½"). 44 pp. Printed on rectos only.


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  File of proofs and layout mockups, including a tracing paper spread for the frontispiece/title-page design.


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  Press coverage file.


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  Additional poems file with 2 typescript poems by Lane and 2 additional poems seemingly from a word processor (1 by Lane, the other by Robert Peters).


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  Dancing in the Dark by Arthur Lane. Illustrated by Steven S. Chayt. Copy A of 26 lettered and clothbound copies, each signed by the author and containing a manuscript insert. The present copy includes the first draft of "Epigraph" in pocket at rear (Epigraph appears on p. 12).

Volume signed by Arthur E. Lane. Steven and Meryl Chayt published their first book in 1977. Their goals at the Kenmore press were to publish works of literature "in such a way that the particular edition would provide a unique understanding of the text" and to publish books "about techniques either discovered or used at the press which might be of interest to those concerned with the art of the book". Kenmore Press and their later imprint Anachronic Editions would exceed these objectives, publishing lovely hand-crafted books. Along with other remarkable projects they were responsible for launching the publishing career of Poet Laureate Billy Collins.

Manuscript with some staining and foxing, other light wear; volume fine.