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In Advance of the Broken Arm
by Ron Padgett
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good, light wear and rubbing to perimeter aspects of cover wrappers, some creasing to wrappers, text block is clean and unm
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York City, NY, 1964. First Edition, with original cover art (Second Edition had an alternate Brainard cover). Limited to 200 copies, all signed and numbered by Padgett, of which this is no. 98. Softcover quarto, side-stapled in illustrated paper wrappers, unpaginated [42]. Very good, light wear and rubbing to perimeter aspects of cover wrappers, some creasing to wrappers, text block is clean and unmarked but some of the ink for text was transferred to preceding blank pages during mimeo process. Cover and drawings by Joe Brainard. Ted Berrigan started "C" Press in 1963 with Lorenz Gude as publisher and published "C" Magazine from May 1963 to May 1966 for 2 volumes and 13 issues (No #12) and also published Joe Brainard's "C" Comics amongst several books by fellow New York School poets including In Advance of the Broken Arm, preceded by Literary Days by Tom Veitch, Homage to Arthur Rimbaud by Ted Berrigan.
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- Seller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 470
- Title
- In Advance of the Broken Arm
- Author
- Ron Padgett
- Illustrator
- Cover and drawings by Joe Brainard
- Format/Binding
- Softcover quarto, side-stapled in illustrated paper wrappers, unpaginated [42]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, light wear and rubbing to perimeter aspects of cover wrappers, some creasing to wrappers, text block is clean and unm
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, with original cover art (Second Edition had an al
- Binding
- Paperback
- Place of Publication
- New York City, NY
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- New York School, Poetry, C Press, Ted Berrigan, Tulsa School, Joe Brainard, Ron Padgett
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
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Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
Glossary
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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