PATCHEN, Kenneth

Selected Poems New Enlarged Edition [INSCRIBED by Author]

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, [1957]. Kenneth Patchen, Alvin Lustig (dust jacket). Third Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 12mo. Pp. 145. Illustrated with Patchen black line drawings in the text. Beige cloth, Futura bold title stamped in red on the spine. In the Alvin Lustig illustrated dust jacket, unclipped ($2.00). "For Manny inscribed with pleasure Kenneth Patchen" in ballpoint pen on the front endpaper. Edges very lightly age toned else near fine. Cover spine ends rubbed. Jacket light soiling, spine ends chipped and spine color bleached. Near Fine / Good. Item #5725

Issue number 12 in the New Classics Series, "$1.75 reprints of important modern works of literature," in this instance poems chosen from ten different Patchen volumes by publisher and friend James Laughlin.

Please see Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig by Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger, p. 24, for reference to the dust jacket design, a Lustig triumph of striking Rohrshach abstraction. Dust jacket is now protected in a removable clear archival sleeve.

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Price: $450.00