Published by The Author & Artist, (Moody NY), 1984
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Illustrations by Julie Maas. Wrappers. White wrappers age-toned, offsetting on endpapers, near fine in a near fine delicate dust jacket with age-toning and the original unprinted glassine dust jacket. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco by the author on the title page. Fiction.
Published by Author & Artist / (J. B. Gerald & J. Maas), (Moody, [Maine] / New York), 1984
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrations by Julie Maas. Octavo. 152pp. Tan printed wrappers. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a striking hand-rubbed block print by Maas. Also present is an unprinted, semi-transparent parchment dust jacket with significant chips. Inscribed on the front panel of the parchment overjacket by Gerald and Maas to African-American artist Jacob Lawrence: "To Jacob Lawrence, from John Bart Gerald & Julie Mass July 4, 1984." Despite the damage to the parchment, the inscription is clean and unaffected. Gerald was an activist, novelist, poet and publisher, who published both his own work and "suppressed works by others". Gerald and Maas also "published the Convention against Genocide with supporting U.N. texts when it fell out of print at the United Nations in 1989" (per the publisher's statement). A poetic novel about a young man's search for meaning.