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Frankfurt Arts Commission, Kentucky, 1984. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Association copy. A handsome limited edition chapbook signed by both authors, #166 of 450 copies. Also inscribed by Stiles to Donald Hall, our one-time Poet Laureate: "For Don Hall, gratefully, MBS." Brown thick paper covers with flaps held by Japanese stab style binding. The interior is Mowhawk letterpress paper. Printed ny Gray Zeitz of the Larkspur Press. It contains two stories, "Hunktown" by Mason, and "Winter Love Story" by Stiles, which won an inaugural short story competition put on by the Commission and was thus honored by being paired with the Mason story. As the forward by Nash Cox explains, "This chapbook reveals two very different worlds within contemporary Kentuckya small western Kentucky farm and a modest thoroughbred horse breeding operation near Lexington. In each story the central character, a woman, struggles to claim her sense of herself through her relationship with cycles of nature and the land." A nice resonance with Donald Hall's own farm life in Maine. The book is very good: wear to the edges of the covers, fading along spine, and on the front cover the shadow of a price sticker, maybe. The upper text block edge has some Maine foxing. Still, all and all quite lovely with a great association. Please inquire for photos.