LIFE IN A COMMON GUN : AN INFORMAL BOOK OF COMMUNICATIONS
Published by Quixote, Madison, Wisconsin, 1968
- First Edition
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera, ABAA
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Condition: Used - Very good
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9 1/2 inches. [71] leaves, printed rectos only, including numerous images. Original printed card covers, plastic comb binding. Inscribed and signed by the author on front cover verso. Covers lightly discolored at edges and lightly soiled and worn, covers and contents bent at outer corners, with some creasing in covers. Very good. Cover design and internal drawings and collages by Blazek. Inscribed, "10.14.68 | For Walt - Growth stumbles, falls - is clumsy, like the letters - which I like, is good - I can trust the human flesh more thoroughly than a waxed apple. Blaz." A collection of letters sent in 1966 and 1967 by Douglas Blazek "to Don Cauble, Pete LaRouche, Willie, & Brown Miller," inscribed probably to his friend, the poet and journalist Walter Lowenfels (1897-1976). In his 2003 Blazek bibliography, James DenBoer notes that a "few hundred copies" of LIFE IN A COMMON GUN were printed in two states, this plastic-comb binding state being the first, replaced with a saddle-stitched version after the comb bindings "were deemed to expensive." DenBoer A4.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- LIFE IN A COMMON GUN : AN INFORMAL BOOK OF COMMUNICATIONS
- Author
- Blazek, Douglas
- Publisher
- Quixote, Madison, Wisconsin
- Publication year
- 1968
- Condition
- Very good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Softcover
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Art, Counterculture, Literature
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