RARE ANGEL (WRIT WITH RAVEN'S BLOOD) - LIMITED ISSUE, SIGNED
by McClure, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 200 numbered copies specially bound signed by the author, this being copy no.23. Octavo (23cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and white cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; [12],13-122,[4]pp. Scattered foxing to text edges and exterior, though contents are largely clean; Very Good+, lacking the original acetate dustjacket. McClure's final publication from the press, a collection of poems "about the interwoven topologies of reality. It reaches for luck - swinging out in every direction. It is about the explosion going on" (from the foreword). Morrow & Cooney 172b.
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- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6366
- Title
- RARE ANGEL (WRIT WITH RAVEN'S BLOOD) - LIMITED ISSUE, SIGNED
- Author
- McClure, Michael
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1974
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Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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Stephenson, Virginia
About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Founded in 2010, Captain Ahab's Rare Books specializes in first editions of literature, genre fiction, film-related books and ephemera, zines, manuscript and archival material.
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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