LOGBOOK by Tom Raworth

Poltroon Press, 1976, First edition of 500 copies, Unpaginated, 8 1/2" X 11", Softcover with french flaps

Very good 

Before the term “graphic novel” was popularized, Frances Butler, who had made her name in textile design, created a visual accompaniment to Tom Raworth’s prose text Logbook which overflowed the text and the page edges, sweeping from page to page in a brilliant visual rush of startling juxtapositions and crisp original imagery. Frances’ inspirations were ephemera, things she had photographed or remembered, Japanese graphics and European advertising from the 1930s. Logbook, published in 1976, was one of the earliest works of Poltroon Press and also one of the most celebrated. It was selected by the Grolier Club for the “Seventy for the Seventies” show which featured books from all genres produced in that decade. It was reprinted in its entirety in IDEA, a Tokyo based design magazine.