Continuous Life Eighteen Poems Two by Strand Mark (4 results)

Condition: As new. Folio, original wrappers with Japanese style clasps. As new. First edition. One of 26 specially bound lettered copies signed by Strand & Welliver, with two separate prints laid in at the back; the only signed issue of this publication.

First edition limited to 251 copies, (this being copy no. 37); folio, pp. [60], printed on Umbria paper on rectos only in black and blue, title page in black, gray and blue; 2 woodcuts in the text; a fine copy in original plain gray wrappers made by Tim Barrett. Merker published Strand's first book, Sleeping With One Eye Open in 1964 at the Stone Wall Press. Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker 97.

First edition limited to 251 copies, (this being copy no. 1) inscribed by Strand to the printer, Kim Merker. Folio, pp. [60], printed on Umbria paper on rectos only in black and blue, title page in black, gray and blue; 2 woodcuts in the text; a fine copy in original plain gray wrappers made by Tim Barrett. Inscribed by Strand on the half-title: "To Kim / Whose book this is from one whose book this is too - with continuous affection / Mark." Merker published Strand's first book, Sleeping With One Eye Open in 1964 at the Stone Wall Press. Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker 97.

First edition limited to 251 copies, this being one of 26 lettered copies signed by the poet and the illustrator (this being copy 'Y'); folio, pp. [60], printed on Umbria paper on rectos only in black and blue, title page in black, gray and blue; 2 woodcuts in the text, repeated on 2 separate prints in pocket at the back, as issued; light wrinkle to the tops of the first half dozen leaves, else fine copy in original plain gray wrappers made by Tim Barrett, Japanese-style thong-and-loop clasps. The printer Kim Merker's copy. Bifoliate prospectus laid in. Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker 97: "those twenty-six copies . sold out instantly.".