From 'Abeng, a Description of Nanny the Leader of the Windward Maroons' [broadside]
by Cliff, Michelle
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Martinsville, IN: Helaine Victoria Press, 1984. Broadside. 12x18 inch broadside, rubricated and ornamented text. "This edition of two hundred broadsides was printed on a Chandler & Price platen press. Design, presswork, and hand composition by Jocelyn H. Cohen using Munder Venezian foundry types and sixteenth century initials... The broadside was printed on Strathmore Brigadoon paper and the type distributed in May 1984..." The press, which took its name from the middle names of founders Jocelyn Helaine Cohen and Nancy Taylor Victoria Poore, started with an offset press in Santa Monica but switched to an 80-year old cast iron letterpress, "the method which was standard when we were trying to get the vote." It was an unusual mixture of lesbian feminist politics with fine press technique, though perhaps most famous for its hundreds of postcards on themes of women's history. The Jamaica-born author was the partner of Adrienne Rich, who also had a limited-edition broadside published by Helaine Victoria Press.
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- Seller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
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- Title
- From 'Abeng, a Description of Nanny the Leader of the Windward Maroons' [broadside]
- Author
- Cliff, Michelle
- Format/Binding
- Broadside
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 3
- Publisher
- Helaine Victoria Press
- Place of Publication
- Martinsville, IN
- Date Published
- 1984
- Bookseller catalogs
- African American; Women; 1980S; Feminism; Jamaica;
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Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..