Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. FINE / WRAPPER VERY GOOD. This is a collection of 40 postcards of varying shapes, enclosed in a cardboard wrapper. The cards are all clean, unmarked, undamaged; in like-new condition. The wrapper has a color image on the front. It is completely clean and unmarked, lightly bumped at corners and along one side (what would count as the spine in a regular book). It is slightly loose from being opened and closed but has no tears or other damage.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. HARDCOVER Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Oversized.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.
Set of 41 5 x 7 in. postcards in folding card cover. Kenward Elmslie's way with words cuts a singular path through a polymath variety of forms. Jukebox hitlet sung by Nat King Cole. Ahead-of-their-time lingo works: The Champ, poem, City Junket, play. Balloons for Cartoons by Joe Brainard. Puréed anthropological tales of fantasy drinking establishments: 26 Bars. Quirky surreal poetry mosaics (Routine Disruptions) that prompted Michael Silverblatt, host of NPR's "Book Worm" program to finger Kenward as "Hands down, my favorite contemporary poet." Elmslie's verbal swath includes The Grass Harp (Broadway cult-fave musical) and annum 2000, Postcards on Parade, composed by Steven Taylor, a concept musical that deconstructs musicals. Plus Cyberspace, tech poem enhanced by Trevor Winkfield visuals. The wrap: Nite Soil introduces Kenward, poet of dense stanzas, to Elmslie, outed collagist of resonant icons in a smartly packaged collection of 41 full-color postcards. 41 full-color postcards in a folding card cover. Printed offset in an edition of 3000 of which 26 copies are lettered and signed by the artist, each with a unique handmade collage by Kenward Elmslie. The limited edition of 26 is out-of-print; the regular edition is available, as new.
Published by Granary Books, New York, 2000
Seller: Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts, Beaverton, OR, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Book. In original box with original shrink wrap. About 6 x 5 1/2 inches. NEW. Unopened. All corners pointed. Binding tight and square. Not marked in any way and very clean and bright. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.
Published by Self published nd
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Postcard, 4 x 6 inches; very good condition; an unmailed copy.
Published by Self published nd
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Postcard, 4 x 6 inches; very good condition; an unmailed copy.
Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!