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Condition: Very good plus. First printing. First edition of this collection by the New York School poet, the first ever winner of the Frank O'Hara Award for Poetry. 8'' x 5.5''. Original pictorial wrappers. x, 86 pages. Price sticker to rear wrapper. Light rubbing to wrappers, foxing to textblock edges. Interior clean.

ix, 85 pp. Small 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. A fine copy in a jacket with very slight use at the corners.

First edition, first printing Very early title by this fine poet. First book to win this award. Becoming scarce. Near fine stiff wraps with the just the lightest age tone. From the library of poet and editor of Cid Corman with his small bookplate to opening flyleaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. Green Minor general scuffing/light soil. Closed outside edges show light foxing, text is otherwise clean and white, no marks. Unclipped DJ shows chips, small tears head and heel, triangular shaped piece missing at lower edge of rear cover. Collection of poetry out of 'diverse influences-among them William Carlos Williams, Rimbaud, and Oriental lyrics." (from the jacket blurb) The first book to win the Frank O'Hara Award for Poetry.

8vo. Original cloth; original printed dust jacket. Small tear to upper front joint of jacket, a few small areas of rubbing, otherwise fresh and clean. FIRST EDITION. This was a Frank O'Hara Award winner, and was the first book granted that prestigious title. The award was "specifically intended to encourage the writing of good new experimental poetry and to aid in its publication" (Jacket copy). Ceravolo was 34 at the time of publication, and a civil engineer as well as a poet.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Edge wear, scuffing and closed tears on price-clipped dust jacket. 86 pages. Keywords: Joseph Ceravolo, Frank O'Hara Award, Poetry Poems, Experimental Poetry.

Smyth-sewn in wrappers. Jacket drawing by Donald E. Munson, photograph of the poet by Vito Giacalone. This is the first book to win the Frank O'Hara Award for Poetry and is inscribed to poet and Talisman House publisher Ed Foster. Shelf wear to wrappers with slight bumps to top and bottom of spine on the back cover. Rust stain from a staple is visible on the inside of the front cover with the text block unaffected. A nice association.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A nice association, being signed and inscribed by Ceravolo to fellow poet and friend John Perreault. Overall clean and well bound copy with foxing to outer edges and endpapers. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed, dated, and inscribed by Joseph Ceravolo to a named individual on the front free endpaper; pages are clean, crisp, and bright; no owners' marks; binding is tight and square; the hard cover is faintly rubbed at the spine tips and a little softened at the spine head, otherwise excellent. The dustjacket is priceclipped and shows a short, closed tear with accompanying creases at the top front, a few spots of rubbing, particularly along the edges, and some chipping and creasing at the spinehead, but remains bright and attractive and is now protected in a clear sleeve.; Signed by Author.

Printed cloth over boards with printed dust jacket. Jacket drawing by Donald E. Munson, photograph of the poet by Vito Giacalone. This is the first book to win the Frank O'Hara Award for Poetry and is inscribed to Ron Padgett and family, Dec. 7, 1968. Padgett would later co-edit Ceravolo's book The Green Lake is Awake. The book is in fine condition, bright, clean, crisp with sharp corners. The jacket is very good with moderate shelf wear, a 1/4 in. tear to rear panel near spine and a couple of minor bends to the rear panel.

Condition: good. A former library book with all the expected stamps, stickers and markings. Some shelf, storage or usage wear present. The binding is tight and all pages are present. The dustjacket is covered in protective plastic. The pages appear unmarked. Pictures available upon request. Individually inspected by Shadow. Thanks for supporting an independent bookseller!