THE BUTCHER'S APRON NEW & SELECTED POEMS INCLUDING "GREED: PART 14.
by WAKOSKI, Diane
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, limited issue. Number 42 of only one hundred numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author on the colophon. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000131
- Title
- THE BUTCHER'S APRON NEW & SELECTED POEMS INCLUDING "GREED: PART 14.
- Author
- WAKOSKI, Diane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press
- Place of Publication
- Santa Rosa
- Date Published
- 2000
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About Second Wind Books LLC
Second Wind Books is committed to offering important British and American first editions in the Modernist vein, with an emphasis on books about books, books by and about women and adjacent admirers. Literature, poetry, small and fine press, letters and manuscripts, original artwork, photographs, are what interests us most. Our founder began bookselling under the tutelage of a truly great bookman in 2006, and is now offering that learned expertise in her own shop. Interested in offers of literature from 1900 to 1950, either for sale or to evaluate.
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- Fine
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