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Bitter Sweet Chocolate Meat
by Caigoy, Faustino
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Woodstock, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Inner City Cultural Center, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. Near Fine with only minor loss to upper rear cover. Comb binding with brown illustrated card covers. 32 leaves each printed solely on recto. Fourteen ink drawings, each repeated twice. First appearance of each drawing is a full page, with title captioned in lower left corner; second appearance follows on next leaf with poem. Faustino Caigoy is a Filipino-American visual- and word-artist and was a noted muralist in Los Angeles during the early 1970s. "i don't write no nice poems, nows-a-days. i guess if i really force myself i could, but i cai n't, so's i goes-on writing about the ills, i guess before the doc comes and tells me what's wrong, i can goes-on the same way. the doc tells me that you have to have your b.a., 'fore you kin write good-stuffs. i guess in a way he's right, i guess. but i kin neba tell what is a b.a., i guess it means, sometin kills me to say, like "being-anglo", guess that's what it means. so the man keeps on holding me down . . . ." Only 2 copies in OCLC (Emory and Cal State LA), and none appearing in commerce.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crow Hop Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 992
- Title
- Bitter Sweet Chocolate Meat
- Author
- Caigoy, Faustino
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Inner City Cultural Center
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1974
Terms of Sale
Crow Hop Rare Books
Institutions billed per their requirements. Reciprocal 20% Dealer Discount. ALL ITEMS SUBJECT TO PRIOR SALE. Books returnable up to ten (10) days after purchase with prior notification. All credit cards accepted. Postage: $4.00 for first book, $2.00 for each thereafter for USPS media mail. Postage for larger books, international orders, and priority mail quoted individually.
About the Seller
Crow Hop Rare Books
Biblio member since 2019
Woodstock, Georgia
About Crow Hop Rare Books
Established in 2018, Crow Hop Rare Books sells a variety of unusual and hard to find material, including photo albums, vernacular material, signed/inscribed first editions, African Americana, ephemera, and midcentury Americana.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
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