At the Grave of Hazel Hall by Sandra McPherson

$40.00

92. (Ives Street Press) At the Grave of Hazel Hall. By Sandra McPherson. Calligraphy by Susan Smith. Sweden, Maine.1988. 14p. 9″ x 6.25″. Printed in handset Centaur & Arrighi on Frankfurt White. Printed in five colors. Sewn into handmade Canterbury covers. Edition of 140 copies signed by Sandra McPherson. Fine.

Poet Sandra McPherson’s tribute to poet Hazel Hall (1886-1924). Barbara Cash (1930-1997) was born in Hamden, Connecticut, and lived and worked in Sweden, Maine. She trained as a graphic designer at Yale University, where she received a M.F.A. in 1980. It was in Yale’s letterpress shop, which was designed to give students a hands-on feel for typography, that she first discovered the art of fine printing. She founded the Ives Street Press in 1979, where she designed, printed, bound, and published limited edition books. Cash taught letterpress and graphic design at the University of Bridgeport and the Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, among other places. Her work has appeared in many exhibitions and can be found in the collections of the San Francisco Public Library, the New York Public Library, the Houghton Library, Harvard University, the Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.