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Sheets loosed as issued.Edition limited to 100 numbered and 26 lettered copies; each broadside signed by the poet. This is one of the 26 lettered sets.On each sheet: "This is number [one-five] of a series of broadsides issued at irregular intervals... during the year 1982 by Cadmus Editions.""Saddle up the rattlesnakes" by Thomas Sanchez issued to celebrate the bicentennial of the founding of Santa Barbara.Description: 1 portfolio (5 broadsides): col. ill.; Contents: 1. Posthumes / Bradford Morrow; illustrated by Guy Davenport. Designed and printed at the Grenfell Press. --2. Wishes / Robert Creeley. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh; block carved by Sally McQuillan --3. A Robert Service bear flies imitation / Edward Dorn; designed & printed by Graham Mackintosh; border design by Trixie --4. Saddle up the rattlesnakes / Thomas Sanchez; designed and printed from handset Baskerville by Judyl Mudfoot --5. The essential ingredient / M.F.K. Fisher; designed and printed from handset type on Rives BFK, Gutenberg Laid, and Mohawk Superfine by Judyl Mudfoot at Mudborn Press; calligraphy by Pamela Gardella.