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NICE TO SEE YOU: HOMAGE TO TED BERRIGAN - KEITH ABBOTT'S COPY, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY 14 CONTRIBUTORS
by Waldman, Anne (editor); Ginsberg, Allen, Eileen Myles, and Philip Whalen, et al. (contributors)
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1991. First Edition. A long and touching homage to Ted Berrigan, collecting stories, essays, poems, photographs, and illustrations by friends and colleagues. In addition to those who have inscribed this volume, contents include contributions by Ron Padgett, James Schuyler, Bernadette Mayer, Ed Sanders, Amiri Baraka, Robert Creeley, Larry Rivers, Philip Whalen, and others. First Printing. Quarto (26.25cm); light blue paper and cloth-covered boards, with titling and portrait of Berrigan stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [16],x,253,[1]pp; illus. Author and contributor Keith Abbott's copy, with his holograph signature at upper front endpaper; inscribed to him by Anne Waldman on the title page, and additionally inscribed by Kenward Elmslie, Joanne Kyger, Ann & Ken Mikolowski, Eileen Myles, Maxine Chernoff, and Bill Berkson, with the additional signatures of Allen Ginsberg, Anselm Hollo, Reed Bye, Ed Foster, and Jack Collom. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $24.95), with some light external wear. Most of the signatures and inscriptions were obtained at Naropa.
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- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6813
- Title
- NICE TO SEE YOU: HOMAGE TO TED BERRIGAN - KEITH ABBOTT'S COPY, SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY 14 CONTRIBUTORS
- Author
- Waldman, Anne (editor); Ginsberg, Allen, Eileen Myles, and Philip Whalen, et al. (contributors)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis
- Date Published
- 1991
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Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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Stephenson, Virginia
About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
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