Double Persephone by Margaret Atwood (3 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [170 x 130 mm] Original illustrated card covers designed by Margaret Atwood. The author's first book of poetry. The text block stapled here. In the first issue, Atwood glued the text-block into the wrappers, changing this after about the first 70 copies or so to stapling the text-block in. This copy in original covers and the first sheet which contains the title-page, title for the first poem (front) and the last leaf containing the poem 'Double Persephone' and the colophon (rear), the remaining text of 12 pages (middle) in facsimile. Apparently, these facsimiles were done or obtained by Toronto poet and bookseller Nelson Ball from leftover sheets. We have only a limited number of this part original/part facsimile available. It's an interesting find and a great option or place holder for the Atwood collector who is unable to find or add the original to their collection. Collects seven poems; Formal Garden, Pastoral, Iconic Landscape, Persephone Departing, Chthonic Love, Her Song, and Double Persephone. Book One in the Market Book Series issued by John Robert Colombo's Hawkshead Press. One of approximately 230 produced.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [170 x 130 mm] Original illustrated card covers designed by Margaret Atwood. The author's first book of poetry. The text block stapled here. In the first issue, Atwood glued the text-block into the wrappers, changing this after about the first 70 copies or so to stapling the text-block in. This copy in original covers and the first sheet which contains the title-page, title for the first poem (front) and the last leaf containing the poem 'Double Persephone' and the colophon (rear), the remaining text of 12 pages (middle) in facsimile. Apparently, these facsimiles were done or obtained by Toronto poet and bookseller Nelson Ball from leftover sheets. We have only a limited number of this part original/part facsimile available. It's an interesting find and a great option or place holder for the Atwood collector who is unable to find or add the original to their collection. This offering includes this facsimile copy [AND] extra sheets used in the original publication, 9 sheets for covers, and 23 sheets for the text. Pretty cool. Collects seven poems; Formal Garden, Pastoral, Iconic Landscape, Persephone Departing, Chthonic Love, Her Song, and Double Persephone. Book One in the Market Book Series issued by John Robert Colombo's Hawkshead Press. One of approximately 230 produced.

Toronto: Hawkshead Press, 1961. Small thin 4to, [16pp.], loosely inserted (once glued) into stiff white card wrappers with a black and white design on the upper cover repeated in reverse on the lower cover. Staining where the glue bled through the cover, otherwise in very good condition as issued. § Rare first state of Margaret Atwood's first book, a collection of poetry published letterpress in the Market Book Series as Book One of the series. This copy is one of the first state where the glue attaching the booklet to its cover dried up and the booklet is loose in the covers. It is estimated there were 80 or 90 of these. Atwood then decided to staple the remainder to the cover, for a possible total of 200 to 220 copies in all. Today they are all but unfindable in acceptable condition. Margaret Atwood is probably best known for her speculative fiction such as The Handmaid's Tale, though her published works range so widely as to defy description.