Signed “Octavio Paz” and “RM” in pencil on the colophon page

Numbered in pencil on the colophon page by publisher

750

30 AP, numbered I-XXX

Bruce Porter, assisted by David Lantow and William Olsen, Trestle Editions Limited, New York

Book design and editing by Benjamin Shiff; dry mounting of the printed Japanese papers to the base sheets by Jo Watanabe Studios, Brooklyn, New York, and Horton Tank Graphics, Hadley, Massachusetts

B 354 - 380

Octavio Paz
translation by Eliot Weinberger

Illustrated Book

21 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. (55.3 x 46.4 cm)

26 original lithographs on various handmade Japanese papers attached with chine appliqué to Cartiere Enrico Magnani paper, each 21 1/2 x 18 in. (54.6 x 45.7 cm). The cover is embellished with Red Wind (see cat. nos. 414 and 441 ), printed on Masa Dosa paper that measures 9 x 11 in. (22.9 x 28 cm) and inset on the cover board. The images are paired with three poems by Octavio Paz in three segments, each preceded by a roman numeral. The poetry is presented in Spanish and English with the Spanish printed in red and the English printed in black. The three selections from Paz's work are from The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987, edited and translated by Eliot Weinberger. They were written between 1969 and 1975. Their sequence in the book is as follows: "San IIdefonso Nocturne"; " Return, for José Alvarado"; and " 'The Skin of the World, The Sound of the World: Robert Motherwell."

The book consists of 132 unnumbered pages bound with hand-sewing into boards covered with natural linen. Titling on the spine of the book is stamped in black "Octavio Paz • Robert Motherwell." The book is enclosed in a clamshell box measuring 23 1/4 x 19 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (59.1 x 49.5 x 5.7 cm) covered with natural linen fabricated by Portfoliobox, Providence, Rhode Island. Titling on the spine of the box is stamped in black "Octavio Paz • Robert Motherwell."

Bauer Bodoni Bold and Bauer Bodoni Bold Italic cast by Fundación Tipografica Neufville, Barcelona, Spain Typesetting by Stamperia Va ldonega, Verona, Italy. Letterpress for the first poem printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress, Hadley, Massachusetts; letterpress for the second poem printed at Stam peria Valdonega, Verona, Italy; letterpress for the third poem printed at Heritage Printers, Charlotte, North Carolina.

3 blank pages
1 page, blank recto; title text: TRES POEMAS / OCTAVIO PAZ I THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB, verso
1 page of title text: THREE POEMS / OCTAVIO PAZ / THE LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB, recto; text verso
1 page of text recto and verso
1 page of text recto; blank verso
1 page with roman numeral I recto; text verso
1 page of text recto; lithograph (Nocturne II verso
2 pages of text
1 page of text recto; lithograph (Nocturne II) verso
3 pages of text
1 page with lithograph (Nocturne III) recto; text verso
2 pages of text
1 page with lithograph (Nocturne IV) recto; text verso
3 pages of text
1 page of text recto; lithograph (Nocturne V) verso
3 pages of text
1 page of text recto; lithograph (Nocturne VI) verso
3 pages of text
1 page with lithograph (Nocturne VII) recto; text verso
1 page of text
1 page with lithograph (Nocturne VIII) recto; blank verso
1 page with roman numeral II recto; text verso
1 page of text recto; lithograph (Untitled) verso
2 pages of text
1 page with lithograph (Return) recto; text verso
1 page of text recto; lithograph (Mexico City Personages I) printed across gutter, verso
1 page of text and lithograph (Mexico City Personages I) recto; text verso
1 page of text
1 page of text recto; lithograph (Mexico City Personages II) printed across gutter, verso
1 page of text and lithograph (Mexico City Personages II) recto; text verso
1 page of text recto; lithograph (Burnt Water) verso
1 page of text
1 page of text recto; lithograph (Mexico City Personages III) printed across gutter, verso
1 page of text and lithograph (Mexico City Personages III) recto; text verso
1 page of text recto; lithograph (Wind) verso
1 page of text recto; blank verso
1 page with roman numeral III recto; text verso
1 page of text recto; lithograph (Blue Gesture) verso
1 page of text
1 page with lithograph (Untitled) recto; text verso
1 page with lithograph (Untitled) recto; lithograph (Spanish Elegy) printed across
gutter, verso
1 page of text and lithograph (Spanish Elegy) recto; lithograph (A Throw of the Dice) verso
1 page of text
1 page with lithograph (Red Samurai) recto; lithograph (Je t'aime) verso
1 page of text
1 page with lithograph (Untitled) recto; lithograph (Black Sun) verso
1 page of text recto; lithograph (Untitled) verso
1 page of text
1 page with lithograph (Mexican Elegy) recto; blank verso
1 page with colophon recto; copyright verso
3 blank pages