Baby Breakdown by Waldman, Anne - 1970

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a stain on the rear panel. The poet's first book to be published by a major trade publisher.

New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.,, 1970. Coming down hard on America, you've got to have a heavy typewriter First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. Ted Berrigan, contributing the blurb to this volume, assesses Waldman: "Her poems sing like prayers, pray like songs of joy, never failing to catch the rush of hope, despair, intensity and desperation which pours in in golden smog-filled red-haze with each breath of life. This book is an ordinary miracle." Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in metallic blue. With dust jacket. Spine and top edge a touch sunned, single mark to front board and one brown spot to fore edge, rear free endpaper a little soiled, very fresh and firm. A near-fine copy in jacket, a few nicks and trivial rubbing to extremities, spine panel a little toned with ends creased, clean and sharp.

New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970. First edition. Hardbound in very good condition in a very good dust jacket; Slight wear to spine and crease to rear panel of jacket.. Inscribed by Waldman "To Kit" with ownership stamp of Dennis Hopper; 115 pages.

New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.,, 1970. Coming down hard on America, you've got to have a heavy typewriter First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. Ted Berrigan, contributing the blurb to this volume, assesses Waldman: "Her poems sing like prayers, pray like songs of joy, never failing to catch the rush of hope, despair, intensity and desperation which pours in in golden smog-filled red-haze with each breath of life. This book is an ordinary miracle." Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in metallic blue. With dust jacket. A fine copy in near-fine jacket, extremities a little rubbed, spine ends and corners a little nicked and creased, sharp and bright.