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The Singing Knives
by Stanford, Frank
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1971. First printing. 56 pp., 6 x 9 inches. Side-stapled and glued into printed card covers. Uncredited frontispiece portrait of the author, and two-color title page illustration, repeated in part on the front cover. The usual sunning to the spine, and three very small discolorations to back cover that suggest strongly that the binding of this issue is actually stapled and then glued into the wrappers (a detail I've not seen previously noted), otherwise very close to fine and uncommon thus.
The author's scarce first book, inscribed to publisher E. V. Griffith:
For E.V. Griffith, This is about the last book from the original edition; another will be out soon. Frank Stanford
Additionally, Stanford has added "Partisan R." to the list of previous publications on the copyright page, in the same ink as the inscription, and someone almost certainly the author has in a different color of ink crossed out the last sentence of the short biography on the last page, which states that Stanford, "lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and attends the University of Arkansas, occasionally."
The author's scarce first book, inscribed to publisher E. V. Griffith:
For E.V. Griffith, This is about the last book from the original edition; another will be out soon. Frank Stanford
Additionally, Stanford has added "Partisan R." to the list of previous publications on the copyright page, in the same ink as the inscription, and someone almost certainly the author has in a different color of ink crossed out the last sentence of the short biography on the last page, which states that Stanford, "lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and attends the University of Arkansas, occasionally."
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- Bookseller
- Passages Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4696
- Title
- The Singing Knives
- Author
- Stanford, Frank
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Publisher
- Mill Mountain Press
- Place of Publication
- Seattle
- Date Published
- 1971
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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Passages Bookshop
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Portland, Oregon
About Passages Bookshop
Passages Bookshop stocks fine, rare, and unusual books and graphic art, with a concentration on modern and contemporary literature and art (particularly poetry and the avant-garde), artist's books, fine printing, and the book arts. The successor to New York City's Bridge Bookshop (late 1980s), Passages opened in Albuquerque in 1994 and relocated to Portland, Oregon, in 1997. Recently settled into our new location in NW Portland, we are open by appointment or chance. Proprietor: David Abel, info@passagesbookshop.com
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