WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF ECSTASY
by Krech, Richard
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Cleveland: Seven Flowers Press, 1967. First Edition. The Berkeley poet and magazine editor's first book, a poetic tribute to San Francisco, published by d.a. levy's Cleveland-based Seven Flowers Press. Each copy bore an original watercolored cover by Mara. Scarce, with no copies for sale in the trade (July, 2019), and 9 holdings in OCLC. Taylor & Horvath P-133. One of 250 copies. Quarto (28cm); mimeographed leaves (rectos), side-stapled, with an original watercolor glued on as front wrapper; [ii],6pp. Two faint horizontal folds smoothed-out, mild toning to extremities, with a small loss to upper right corner of terminal leaf, and a few faint splash marks to upper margins and terminal leaf; Very Good+.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4101
- Title
- WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF ECSTASY
- Author
- Krech, Richard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Seven Flowers Press
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland
- Date Published
- 1967
Terms of Sale
Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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About the Seller
Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Biblio member since 2010
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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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...