NEW WORLD SUITE NUMBER THREE: Four Movements for Three Voices; [poetry, intriguingly bound and presented]

New York: Center for Book Arts, 2005. First edition. The Center for Book Art's innovative 30th-anniversary publication. Number 3 of 75 copies SIGNED BY BRINGHURST (poet), HENRY (printer), KYLE (designer), and RICHARD MINSKY, The Center’s founder and the project’s coordinator. THIS COPY ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY BRINGHURST, "for Allen Mears,/ who may appreciate/ more than most not only/ the poetry but also/ Barbara's and Hedi's/ magnificent engineering." Four 4to volumes bound in heavy cardstock -- three with Bringhurst's polyphonic poetry meant to be read by 3 people at once, and the last with his afterword describing the evolution of both poem and project, (truncated) as well as the subscribers list (Mear’s name is 3rd on the list), and the colophon leaf. Box measures approximately 17.25 x 17.25 x 4” and consists of 4 cloth-covered individual fold-out lecterns, one for each book. As Bringhurst characterized the overall structure, this is "a wonderfully complex piece of biblio-engineering made to behave as if it were simple." ALSO INCLUDED is the original prospectus, various pre-publication announcements, and extensive correspondence (in the form of printed emails and typed, signed letters) between the collector, Allen Mears, Bringhurst and The Center; Altogether fine. (Inventory #: 55884)