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Scratching the Beat Surface
by McClure, Michael
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0865470731
- ISBN 13
- 9780865470736
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
North Point Press, 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Association copy, inscribed to Robert Bertholf, an author and professor at Kent State University and later the curator of The Poetry Collection at SUNY Buffalo. Fine book in a very near fine jacket except for a little toning to edges. Essays on his fellow Beat poets and their triumphs.
Synopsis
This insider's view of the Beat scene of the fifties and early sixties vividly marks the advancement of a new perception of art as "a living bio-alchemical organism" through essays by a poet and playwright who helped shape the movement.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-1593538306302
- Title
- Scratching the Beat Surface
- Author
- McClure, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0865470731
- ISBN 13
- 9780865470736
- Publisher
- North Point Press
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco, Ca
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- ASSOCIATION COPY, BEAT POETS, POETRY,
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About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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