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The Zodiac is the Special Collections Featured Book for March


The Zodiac by Bret Rohmer. 1968. New York: Brownstone Press.                                 Special Collections Stacks ** NC139 .R63 A4 1968

Title page from The Zodiac
Each of Rohmer’s signs of the zodiac is accompanied by a poem.


This is a limited first edition with 250 numbered copies.  Numbered copies 1-50 were printed on J. Green handmade watercolor paper and were signed by the artist on the colophon leaf. Seven of the poems are signed by a contemporary American poet beneath his poem. No. 25.  The poems and illustrations are housed portfolio styled in a dark red cloth case.  The case has light blue colored endpapers that have been sprinkled with silver.