FLAG OF ECSTASY: SELECTED POEMS - THE BINDER'S COPY, SIGNED
by Ford, Charles Henri (text); Germain, Edward B. (editor)
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- Hardcover
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1972. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of three copies specially bound and designated for the printer, binder, and publisher's files, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by author on the colophon. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and orange cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-139,[3]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. A substantial collection of poems by the editor of the Surrealist magazine View. Many of these first appeared in the pages of Caravel, Blues, New Directions, VVV, Transition, and The Virginia Spectator. "He creates the wonder, the wit, and the erotic beauty that have made surrealism the most significant of all modern influences upon poetry" (From the introduction). Morrow and Cooney 119c.
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- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6028
- Title
- FLAG OF ECSTASY: SELECTED POEMS - THE BINDER'S COPY, SIGNED
- Author
- Ford, Charles Henri (text); Germain, Edward B. (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1972
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Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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