Search Results: New York On Fire by Hilton Obenzinger

Real Comet Press, The, 1989. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Seattle: Real Cornet Press, 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Paperback. Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 144 pp. Illustrated. Wraps lightly worn, corner tips bent, reading bend to rear wrap and some interior pages; text clean with some dampstaining to outer margins. Poems by the author about major fires in New York City's history dating from 1627. Black and white photographs and drawings.

Seattle: The Real Comet Press, 1989. Paperback. 144p., beautifully designed and printed on alkaline paperstock and illustrated with a large number of vignette period photos and drawings; oversize softbound, 11x7.5 inch glossy black and red wraps. Two tiny corner-tips are bent, otherwise perfectly sound, clean and unmarked, a nice copy. Half-title has a scrawled inscription from Obenzinger, signed, and dated the year of publication. He works nonfiction into mild unorthodoxy with line-breaks --into modernist poetry in short that remains informative. Factual stuff organized by a poet. Commenced as a commercial project, write a book for a business concern, those who commissioned it went broke and Obenzinger re-fashioned his materials into this oddity endorsed by Dennis Smith, a notable writer on things (in)flamable, and by fellow poets Ishmael Reed, Andrei Codrescu and Eduardo Galeano.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Seattle: Real Comet Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover in Original Shrinkwrap. Fine. 4to. Pp. [8], 9-144. Frontis. b&w photo. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of old prints and black-and-white photography. Bibliography. A variant binding intended for distribution to those involved in the production of the book, this in black cloth with metallic copper lettering stamped on front board and spine. As New. Signed by Obenzinger. (The last photo shows the common softcover.). Obenzinger was commissioned by the New York firefighters' union to write book documenting New York firefighters; the proceeds from sales were to benefit the Widows and Orphans fund. When the publisher went bankrupt; this book, a history of fires in New York City in verse rose from the ... result of a fresh vision. The work is mesmerizing.From the Colonial era to 1980, accounts of the major conflagrations that beset Gotham, including the Triangle Shirtwaist building, the burning of Barnum's American Museum, the B-52 that… Read More

Real Comet Press. Wraps soft cover. Stated first edition 1989. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1989.