Give Me Back My Rags

[Simic, Charles (translator)] Popa, Vasko

Published by Trace Editions, 1985

About this Item

18 leaves (two blank), printed rectos (one side) only, except for a copyright statement on the back (verso) of the title leaf. Laid into a folding cover. Limited to 600 copies. Popa was a noted Serbian poet. Simic, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, was born in Belgrade, Serbia, and grew up in Chicago. First edition (first printing). Fine sheets laid into a near fine folder with minor edgewear. This is one of 26 lettered copies signed by Simic and Popa, with a handwritten poem by Simic written out on a blank leaf. In this case, Simic has copied out and signed his 16-line poem, 'Pyramids Are Towns / for Vasko' Your humble cataloguer made a half-hearted attempt to find this poem in one of Simic's published collections, but did not locate a printed version.

Seller Inventory # 96273

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Give Me Back My Rags
• Publisher: Trace Editions
• Publication Date: 1985
• Binding: Ephemera
• Edition: First Edition.
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry