James Trissel – The First Celestial Adventure of Mister Benzedrine
The most curious of collaborations – 10 students, one translator and James Trissel
(Press at Colorado College) The First Celestial Adventure of Mister Benzedrine. By Tristan Tzara. Translated by Elmer Peterson. The Press at Colorado College. 1996. 48p, 13″ x 9.5″. Typography and illustrations integrated as design. Printed on a Vandercook IV from polymer plates on Arches Cover, with inserts on various papers. Gray boards filled with illustration and typography; coptic binding sewn with exposed spine. One in an edition of 60 copies, of which 50 are numbered as part of the published edition, signed by James Trissel on the colophon, and Elmer Peterson at the Introduction. Fine.
From the Colophon: “This book is the product of ten students, one translator, E.R. Peterson, and James Trissel, who taught the class that composed, printed and bound this most curious of collaborations. …[it] resembled nothing less than that of an ‘exquisite corpse’, with section following section, sometimes in acknowledgement, sometimes oblivious to what had preceded in the sequence.”
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