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Home Country Alan was awarded the First Prize for Book Design in Canada in 2000, in the limited edition category, by the Alcuin Society. Twenty-five selected poems and an autobiographical essay by Al Purdy, with thirteen wood engravings by Alan Stein. Al Purdy received the Canada’s highest literary honour the Governor general’s award in 1965 and again in1987. He received the Order of Canada in 1982. He published over 30 volumes of poetry. The poems in this edition span his career and express the poet’s love and unique understanding of his home country Canada. Al Purdy had traveled widely in Canada from the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland, site of the first Viking settlement in North America, to Baffin Island. He rode the rails from Winnipeg across the prairies during the depression, to the west coast, and returned home to his grandfather’s country, in southern Ontario. Book description Handset 18-point Cloister Old style type printed on 120 gsm Nideggan mould made paper using a Vandercook #4 proof press. Wood engravings printed on hand-made Iwami White Japanese paper, with a hand-coloured frontispiece, on Gampi Torinoko. Hand-sewn into paste paper covered boards with Japanese linen hinge with gold stamping. Binding by Don Taylor and Kate Murdoch. Over all size 31 x 25 cm. 98 pages The edition was limited to 105 copies, and was sold at $495.00 the edition is now out of print.
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