Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
WAKOSKI, Diane
Published by The Perishable Press, Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, 1969
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First edition. Oblong octavo. [12]pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine. One of 190 copies (of a total edition of 250). Poet Denise Levertov's copy, with her blindstamped ownership sticker on the front flap. Nicely printed on Shadwell paper handmade specifically for this book and sewn into a Fabriano wrapper. Seller Inventory # 498682
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Title: Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
Publisher: The Perishable Press, Mount Horeb, Wisconsin
Publication Date: 1969
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
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[Publisher's Prospectus]: Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
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Unbound. Condition: Fine. Publisher's prospectus. One sheet, measuring 4" x 11¾" and printed recto only. Old horizontal fold (presumably as issued) and a couple of tiny spots else fine. Seller Inventory # 576588
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Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
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Perishable Press, Mount Horeb, WI, 1969
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Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Limited Edition. 11 pages. First Limited edition, one of 250 copies, 190 of which are for sale. Printed on handmade Shadwell paper and sewn into a Fabriano wrapper. Handset in Palatino & Saphir. As new book in an as new ochre colored dust jacket. A beautiful copy! Seller Inventory # 3641199283
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Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons.
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Mount Horeb: Perishable Press,, 1969
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Softcover
First Edition
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
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First edition. Oblong 16mo. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 190 (of 250) copies on hand-made Shadwell paper. Hamady 24. Seller Inventory # 85505
Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons
Published by
The Perishable Press, Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, 1969
Used
Softcover
First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Oblong octavo. [12]pp. Fine in plain sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 190 copies (of a total edition of 250). Inscribed and with her characteristic drawing (but not signed) on the first leaf: "25 August 1969, For Dot & Bill, my friends, in gratitude." Nicely printed on Shadwell paper handmade specifically for this book and sewn into a Fabriano wrapper. Seller Inventory # 498683
Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons.
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Mount Horeb: Perishable Press,, 1969
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Softcover
First Edition
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Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
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First edition. [16 pp]. Light bend at spine, some light scattered foxing. In all, near fine in sewn wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket. One of 190 (of 250) copies on hand-made Shadwell paper. SIGNED by Wakowski on the title page, and additionally INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper, "To Ken Stuart with hopes that the / excellent mechanism of the piano / gives you all its resonance." Hamady 24. Seller Inventory # 50338
Thanking my mother for piano lessons
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Perishable Press, Mt. Horeb, 1969
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Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
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Edition limited to 250 copies, oblong 8vo, pp. [16]; 1 anonymous illustration; original ochre wrappers; fine. Two Decades 24. Seller Inventory # 51859
Thanking my Mother for Piano Lessons
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Perishable Press, Mt. Horeb, WI, 1969
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Original Wrappers
First Edition
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Seller: Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA, Conshohocken, PA, U.S.A.
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Original Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine binding. Oblong 12mo. [16] pp., illus. Limited edition, one of 250 copies, signed by Wakoski at the colophon. Printed in black Palatino on handmade ivory-colored Shadwell paper sewn into Fabriano paper covers with jacket and acronym of the title:author stamped in blind on the front; "illustrated by an anonymous diagram of the mechnics fo the piano, key and wire, etc." Hamady notes in the bibliography, "This paper was couched on the 'magic felt' which was gratis from a papermill here in Wisconsin. It was loaded with pigment from its last job, so each pressing produced a different color in the sheet, beginning with a hot pink & lighter to an orange & on to Ivory & finally off-white with light tangerine deckles!" Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 24. A beautiful fine printing of Wakoski's haunting poem. Seller Inventory # 7380
THANKING MY MOTHER FOR PIANO LESSONS.
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Perishable Press: Horeb, WI, 1969
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Softcover
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Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
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Oblong 5.5 x 7.75, sewed wraps, (12) pp, a bit foxed else vg. ONE OF 250 COPIES, SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY WAKOSKI. Seller Inventory # 97-3554