1946 Sleepers Awake Kenneth Patchen First Edition Original Dust Jacket

Kenneth Patchen

Published by Padell Book Company, 1946

About this Item

Sleepers Awake. Kenneth Patchen. New York: Padell Book Company. First Edition. Original Dust Jacket. 389 pp, 9x 6.25 , 8vo. In fair condition. Dust jacket exhibits the most wear with loss at top edge & tearing at flap hinges. Toning to dust jacket as well, mostly at spine. Spine hinges worn and creased on dust jacket, but are otherwise intact. Grey cloth boards scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Bottom corner of text-block (including front board) exhibits water dampness staining. Head and tail of spine bumped. Gilt lettering on spine normally dulled, but overall attractive. Top edge sprayed black. Previous ownership ink stamp found on front end-page: Frank Weise, Philadelphia, PA. Normal age-related toning throughout text-block; mostly to edges of leaves. Binding intact. Please see photos. Kenneth Patchen (1911 1972) was an American poet and novelist. He experimented with different forms of writing and incorporated painting, drawing, and jazz music into his works, which have been compared with those of William Blake and Walt Whitman. Along with his friend and peer Kenneth Rexroth, he was a central influence on the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat Generation. A work of extraordinary imaginative invention Sleepers Awake might be described as novelistic fantasy a pioneering new direction in fiction which created its own protean form as it was written. Patchen mingled narrative with dream visions, surrealism with satire, poetry with statements of principle, and explored the then almost uncharted territory of visual word structures twenty years before Concrete Poetry became a popular international movement. Sleepers Awake is a rallying cry to young and old, as Patchen advances his long struggle against inhumanity, oppression, war and hypocrisy. First Edition. Original dust jacket. RAREA1946AFJB 06/24 - HK1713.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 1946 Sleepers Awake Kenneth Patchen First Edition Original Dust Jacket
• Publisher: Padell Book Company
• Publication Date: 1946
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
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