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In What Hour
by Rexroth, Kenneth
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Langlois, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1940. First edition. 8vo, 83 pp, bound in blue cloth titled in gilt. Illustrated dust jacket. With mimeographed errata slip taped down onto verso of last leaf. Association copy, inscribed boldly by Rexroth at the first blank to Charles and Janet Richards.
The poet's first book, an important debut that would anticipate and pave the way for the Beat Generation. A good association - Charles and Janet were friends of Rexroth, and an important part of the California jazz scene. Janet chronicled some of this milieu in her underappreciated memoir Common Soldiers. The errata slip tipped in is rare, this being the first example we've seen.
Strips of fading to cloth extremities, and some offsetting to ffep from Rexroth's signature, else near fine. The dust jacket is good only, with rubbing and creasing to extremities, and with the front flap nearly completely split. Good only.
The poet's first book, an important debut that would anticipate and pave the way for the Beat Generation. A good association - Charles and Janet were friends of Rexroth, and an important part of the California jazz scene. Janet chronicled some of this milieu in her underappreciated memoir Common Soldiers. The errata slip tipped in is rare, this being the first example we've seen.
Strips of fading to cloth extremities, and some offsetting to ffep from Rexroth's signature, else near fine. The dust jacket is good only, with rubbing and creasing to extremities, and with the front flap nearly completely split. Good only.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Division Leap, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25214
- Title
- In What Hour
- Author
- Rexroth, Kenneth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1940
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Division Leap, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Langlois, Oregon
About Division Leap, ABAA
Booksellers and publishers based in Portland, Oregon. Since 2005, we've specialized in rare books, archives and ephemera related to art, poetry, counter-culture, design, social movements, music, graffiti, tattooing, the Situationist International and its aftermath, and the history of independent publishing. Collections purchased. Catalogs issued. Please contact us to join our mailing list. We welcome visitors by appointment. Member ABAA, ILAB.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Association Copy
- An association copy is a copy of a book which has been signed and inscribed by the author for a personal friend, colleague, or...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
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