Om Krishna III:  Secret Haiku

by Charles Henri Ford

drawings by Isamu Noguchi 

Limited edition, signed.  New York:  The Red Ozier Press, 1982  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD++ condition.

• Gilded orange covers are mostly clean, with gilt illustration.  Corners are sharp.  See photos. 
• Spine is bright with firm ends.
• Binding is strong.  
• Handmade paper end papers/ pastedowns show little to no sign of age or wear.
• Signed by author and artist on half-title page.  See photos.
• Illustrations, black and white line drawings, are bright and clear.   
• Interior exhibits minimal signs of age and wear.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. 
• Text block edges have deckle fore and foot edges.   
• PS2026.1111

35 pages. 5.5 x 8.5 inches

Publisher's gilded orange boards.  This is #147 of an edition of 155 copies from The Red Ozier Press in New York City.  Signed by the author and illustrator.  Fine letterpress work on handmade paper with line illustrations.  A Near Fine copy of this scarce edition.

A metaphysical surrealist narrative poem, this is the third installment in the Om Krishna series by Charles Henri Ford (1908-2002), with illustrations by Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988).  Charles Henri Ford was a poet, editor, novelist, artist and legendary cultural catalyst whose career spanned much of 20th-century modernism.  Ford was perhaps best known as the editor of two influential magazines:  Blues: A Magazine of New Rhythms, which he founded in 1929, and View, the premier art and literature magazine of the 1940's.  Noguchi's abstracted designs, which support the text, also appeared on a number of View magazine's covers.

The Red Ozier Press, a renowned American private fine press specializing in hand-printed, limited-edition books, poetry, pamphlets, and broadsides was founded in 1976 in Madison, Wisconsin, by Steven Ken Miller.  In 1979 Miller moved the press to New York City, where Ken Botnick joined him as co-proprietor.  The press operated until 1988.

First, limited, letterpress edition.  Handmade paper made at the Twinrocker Mill.  Deepdene types cast at Out of Sorts Letter Foundery (sic).  Bound at Twelfth Night Bindery.  Design, printing, and production by Ken Botnick and Steve Miller in New York City.  This is copy #147/155 made.  Signed by author and illustrator on half-title page.

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