Pictures of Life and of Death. by PATCHEN, Kenneth

New York: Padell. Very Good. 1946. Limited Edition. Paperback. Some slight edgewear. ; Limited First Edition copy: one of 2500 copies issued. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 32 pages .

New York: John Felsberg, 1946. 1st Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Staple-bound booklet in well crafted custom pamphlet sleeve. Dark brown paper cover lightly faded and light wear to booklet itself. Mild pipe aroma. A little bit of spotting to interior of sleeve and light shelfwear to exterior. Brown leather boards, paste-on title to spine, dark chocolatey brown taffeta lining and four-fold wrap for laid-in booklet. Only 2,500 copies, printed on good quality tweedweave laid paper, text in red and black. 32 pp. A collection of poems often with dark and bizarre imagery and a bit of God mixed into the theme. "It cannot blur. Light my God is on the leaves. Under their fingers birds build pyramids. The lovers. He is. All other men are somewhere, wrong."

[New York]: [Padell], (1946). First Edition. Softcover. Two-inch split at the top and three inches at the bottom of the dustwrapper along the spine. Very Good. Stiff wraps in a dustwrapper designed by Patchen, one of 2500 copies. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page: "For Miles Burr/with all good wishes/Kenneth Patchen."