HARRY DUNCAN PRINTER IN IOWA 1956-1972

An illustrated bibliography compiled by Juan Pascoe

at the

Taller Martín Pescador

Santa Rosa, Tacámbaro de Codallos, Mexico

MMVIII TABLE OF CONTENTS page 19 1. [Christmas card, 1956.] Paul Engle. Book and Child. 20 2. Homage to Baudelaire. Edited by Paul Engle. 24 3. Requiescat in Pace. Paul Wightman Williams, Jr. Allen Tate, Barbara Gibbs. 32 4. Valentines to the Wide World. . 39 5. [Announcment]:Valentines to the Wide World. 60 6. Error Pursued. Helen Pinkerton. 62 7. [Announcement] Error Pursued. 63 8. [Christmas card, 1959.] There is no rose of such virtue. 85 9. Golden Child. Paul Engle. Philip Bezanson. 87 10. [Christmas card, 1960.] Ite Missa Est Deo Gratias. 88 11. The Lovemaker. Robert Mezey. 90 12. Journey to a Known Place. Hayden Carruth. 92 13. Dinner program. August 1961. 95 14. The Ocean to Cynthia / Sir Walter Ralegh. 99 15. [Birth announcement] Barnaby Andrew Duncan. 20 June 1962. 101 16. [Christmas card, 1962.] The Corpus Christi Carol. 104 17. Bearing Weapons. Steven Berg. 106 18. [Christmas card, 1963.] A Song / Alcalá / Mdlvii. 112 19. [Invitation to an evening party.] 1 June 1964. 113 20. [Birth announcement.] Lucy Elizabeth Duncan. 18 July 1964. 114 21. A Letter to a Small Nephew Named Claud. Fr. Rolfe, Frederick Baron Corvo. 122 22. Four Early Stories. James Agee. Collected by Elena Harap. 122 23. [Announcement.] Four Early Stories by James Agee. 123 24. The Poets Go Along. . 124 25. Leigh Hunt on Eight Sonnets of Dante. 131 26. White Blossoms. Robert Mezey. 133 27. [Announcement.] White Blossoms. 28. [Christmas card, 1965.] Noel. Jacques Audiberti. 134 29. [Birth announcement.] Guy Oliver Duncan. 15 February 1966. 135 30. Far Away. Ronald Firbank. 137 31. Christ and the Unicorn. Allen Tate. 139 32. [Program] “The Dinner Meeting. 31 August 1966.” 142 33. [Christmas card, 1967.] On the Blessed Virgin’s Bashfullnesse. 143 34. [Announcement for an exhibition at The Book Club of California. 1968 144 35. Brandings. Katherine Arnstein Heinemann. 36. Two post card announcements for Brandings. 145 37. The Tablets I-VIII, Armand Schwerner. 148-9 39. [New Year’s card, 1969.]. Version of John Dryden’s The Secular Masque. 2 3 FORWARD / JUAN PASCOE

150 40. Maggot and Worm and Eight Other Stories. M.M. Liberman. HEN Harry Duncan died in 1997, one which was read and annotated by Nancy 152 41. Dancing on Water. Harold Bond. Wday before his 82nd birthday, his Duncan before her own death in 2004. 153 43. Postcards. Miklós Radnóti widow, Nancy, dismantled the tools and That untimely and terrible occurance 154 44. Iowa. Richard Geller. furniture which had been the final site of caused the project to languish. 156 45. [Christmas card, 1969.] St Augustin’s Confessions. The Cummington Press, in the Fine Arts I chose to concentrate upon Duncan’s 157 46. Last Words. Robert Mezey. Building at the University of Ne braska at years in Iowa for personal and historical 158 47. The Queen’s Triangle. Stephen Berg. Omaha. Some of the items, the treadle reasons: because I served my own appren- 159 48. A printed letter from the Governor of Iowa to Paul Engle, 16 June 1970. press, a custom made paper cabinet and ticeship with him towards the end of that 160 49. A List of the Limited Editions in Print, Summer 1970 . the cases of type (apart from the mun- period; because Duncan himself wrote 161 50. Field with Figurations. Warren Slesinger. dane rack he had brought with him from fully and repeatedly about the early years 165. 51. Bandaging Bread.. Glover Davis. Massachusetts in 1956, he now owned a of the press in Massa chusetts—he covered 183. 52. Invitation to cocktails, 25 September 1971. comely antique oak one), she deposited in the history of his seven years’ labor on the 185. 53. Printed thank-you letter from the Arts Council to Stuart Edie. the large pressroom across the hall which original press at Cum m