Broadside collection

21 items, 1969-2003

 MSS 115

 Two Magpie Press (Kendrick, Idaho)

 Each measures approximately 10”x 13”.   Poems, with
illustrations.   Title, author, date printed listed below. 
Gift of the press, 1985.

Sabbath.  Derek Walcott.   1984

The Death of Li Po.  Daniel Halpern.  1984

Is the Garden Worth It?   Carolyn Gravelle.

Composting at Forty and Palouse History.   Ron McFarland. 1984 

Hard Red Wheat.  Paul Zarzyski. 1985.

Surfaces. Robert Wrigley. 1984.

The Miles Between. Howard Moss. 1984.

A Preference in Birds. Robert Wrigley. 1984.

The Beliefs of a Horse. Robert Wrigley. 1984.

Observer Books  (Boise, Idaho)

 Gift of Ruth P. Wright,  1988
(as part of Charles DavidWright manuscript collection, MSS 86)

On Meeting Ralph Smith.   Merna Hecht.    Autographed;  hand numbered  #9.   11”x 15”      (Boise Broadside Number 5)

Anaquoness Writes from Canada/February,  1918.    Bonnie Cochrane  Hirsch.  1976.   Autographed; hand numbered #13 of 50.    11”x 15”   (Boise Broadside Number 2)

Limberlost Press (Boise, Idaho) 

Gift of Tom Trusky, 2003

Rough Country.  Dana Gioia.  2003.   9" x 12"

 Gypsy Scrivener Press

 Gift of Tom Trusky

Parting Company After Four Days in the Desert.    Rick Ardinger.  1985.  Autographed; hand numbered 26/50.   8-1/2”x11”

 Black Rock Press (University of Nevada)

Gift of Robert Blesse, who operates the press, 1991

The Introduction.   Andrei Codrescu.  1989    Autographed.  10”x 12”.   No.  53 of 150 copies printed to commemorate the author's visit.

Boise/The City of Trees.  1990.  13”x 20”   One of fifty printed for the Boise Club of Printing House Craftsmen and friends of the press.   April 11, 1990.

Adjusting to the desert.  Kirk Robertson.  1990.   22”x 15”   No. Proof of 150 printed.    Drawing by Ted Waddell.

 Miscellaneous broadsides

Nine Verses for Ninety—for Grandpa Dave/ September, 1977.   11”x17”    (from the Charles David Wright collection, MSS 86)

Silver Gate.    Peter Bowen.    Autographed and inscribed to Tom Trusky.   12”x20”

A Voyage to the Moon.  Archibald Macleish.  1969.  9 ½”x 19”.   850 copies printed at the Gehenna Press.  (Cataloged)

The R.L. Stevenson Tree on Oahu.  William Stafford.   1975. 12”x 13”.     Petronium Press.   No. 34, autographed.  (Cataloged)

Gutenberg Bible page.  Facsimile page of the 42-line Gutenberg Bible printed in 1455.   Beginning of St. John’s Gospel.    12”x 17”.  Gutenberg Museum, World Museum of Printing (Mainz, Germany).  Souvenir of Expo 86, Vancouver, Canada

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