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EMPEROR OF MIDNIGHT - THE BINDER'S COPY, SIGNED by Roditi, Edouard (poems); Hernandez, Jose (illustrator)
by Roditi, Edouard
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. Deluxe Issue, one of five copies specially bound and designated for the author, artist, binder, publisher, and printer, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by Roditi on the colophon. Hardcover. Fine/in clear acetate jacket. Hernandez, Jose. EMPEROR OF MIDNIGHT - THE BINDER'S COPY, SIGNED by Roditi, Edouard (poems); Hernandez, Jose (illustrator)
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of five copies specially bound and designated for the author, artist, binder, publisher, and printer, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by Roditi on the colophon. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; [6],7-146,[6]pp. An etching signed by artist Jose Hernandez is tipped in opposite the title page. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. A late but substantial collection of verse by the noted poet and translator, his first published by the Black Sparrow Press.
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of five copies specially bound and designated for the author, artist, binder, publisher, and printer, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by Roditi on the colophon. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; [6],7-146,[6]pp. An etching signed by artist Jose Hernandez is tipped in opposite the title page. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. A late but substantial collection of verse by the noted poet and translator, his first published by the Black Sparrow Press.
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- Rare Books Honolulu
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 928E
- Title
- EMPEROR OF MIDNIGHT - THE BINDER'S COPY, SIGNED by Roditi, Edouard (poems); Hernandez, Jose (illustrator)
- Author
- Roditi, Edouard
- Illustrator
- Hernandez, Jose
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- in clear acetate jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Deluxe Issue, one of five copies specially bound and designated
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press
- Place of Publication
- Santa Rosa
- Date Published
- 1974
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Limited Editions;
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