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Cave Birds: An Alchemical Drama
by Hughes, Ted
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London: Faber and Faber, 1978. Baskin, Leonard. Oblong quarto. (63)pp. First trade edition. Inscribed by Leonard Baskin, whose stylized drawings provide a dramatic illustration of Hughes's poem sequence. The effect, as the jacket copy rightly describes it, is a "haunting combination of word and image." Baskin, the renowned sculptor, artist, and founder of the Gehenna Press, shared a long friendship with Hughes, and had previously illustrated the poet's famous "Crow" seqence. Bound in full black cloth, lettered in gold on spine. Dust jacket illustrated with drawings repeated from interior. Boards slightly bowed with light shelfwear, jacket with few closed tears at edges and two faint marks to front. Near fine.
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- Bookseller
- Bromer Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21091
- Title
- Cave Birds: An Alchemical Drama
- Author
- Hughes, Ted
- Illustrator
- Baskin, Leonard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1978
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Illustrated Books;
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About the Seller
Bromer Booksellers
Biblio member since 2008
Boston, Massachusetts
About Bromer Booksellers
Bromer Booksellers specializes in rare and beautiful books. Owned and operated by Anne Bromer, who has been in the business of fine books for over fifty years, our shop carries a range of important private press books, designer bookbindings, illustrated books, children's books, and miniature books.
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Quarto
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