On the Slain Collegians by Herman Melville, Antonio Frasconi

New York: Noonday Press 1972, 2nd . (Mass market paperback) unpaginated. Fine. 2nd Noonday Press edition. Beautiful woodcut illus. Sections from the poems of Melville, edited and illustrated with woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi..

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1971]. First Thus, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 493. Slim quarto; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($5.95); [48]pp.; illus. throughout. Brief faint soil to upper jacket panel, margins and cloth a bit yellowed, light shelf wear, vertical crease along front flap, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Signed by the illustrator on colophon in rear. Attractive and strikingly-illustrated limited edition of this collection of poems published to mark the hundredth anniversary of their composition as well as to draw comparison to the ongoing war in Vietnam: "The poems and parts of poems Antonio Frasconi presents here, along with his woodcuts interpreting them, deal specifically with themes that preoccupy most Americans: war's bitterness, the wasted deaths of young men" (rear jacket flap).