THE BABY BOOK
by Elmslie, Kenward (words) & Joe Brainard (pictures)
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine
- Seller
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Brooklyn, New York, United States
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About This Item
[New York]: [Boke Press], [1965]. 11 inches. [37] leaves, of which 36 are illustrated, plus colophon printed on recto of rear cover. Stiff pictorial covers, side-stapled and backed in black cloth. Numbered and signed by Elmslie and Brainard. Minor soiling to rear cover, else fine.
Numbered 27 of 500 copies (of which 1-50 were signed by the author and illustrator and 1-10 were specially bound and included a piece of the original manuscript). The first published collaboration exclusively between Joe Brainard and Kenward Elmslie. Clay and Phiillips, p. 266.
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- Bookseller
- W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1013
- Title
- THE BABY BOOK
- Author
- Elmslie, Kenward (words) & Joe Brainard (pictures)
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- [Boke Press]
- Place of Publication
- [New York]
- Date Published
- [1965]
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- American literature, poetry, experimental poetry, mimeo revolution, New York School, New York City, Lower East Side, East Village, mimeograph, mimeo, periodical, comics, comic book
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Leaves
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- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...