Lunar Baedeker & Time-Tables
Loy, Mina
Sold by Passages Bookshop, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
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AbeBooks Seller since February 3, 2015
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Sold by Passages Bookshop, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Association Member:
AbeBooks Seller since February 3, 2015
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basket82 pp., 5.5 x 9.75 inches. Sewn signatures glued into card covers, with printed dust-jacket (jacket flaps adhered to covers, as issued). Edition of 450 copies, designed and published by Jonathan Williams as Jargon 23. With three introductory essays by William Carlos Williams, Kenneth Rexroth, and Denise Levertov. Light age-toning and wear to jacket, with a small abrasion on the spine and a closed tear on the back panel; internally near fine. In all, a very good copy, with an inscription by the author on the front free endsheet. Mina Loy's second book, published thirty-five years after the first. Through this and subsequent collections (the Lost Lunar Baedeker, also from Jargon in 1977, and the Last Lunar Baedeker from Farrar in 2015), the work of this preeminent Modernist poet has gradually begun to find the wider readership it so deserves. This copy bears the author's warm and intimate inscription "To Nursie Kay" with "best wishes _and_ gratitude" dated October 27, 1959, in the year after publication, and about halfway through Loy's last residence in Aspen, Colorado; laid in is an obituary for Loy, clipped from the Aspen Times of September 29, 1966. Books signed or inscribed by Mina Loy are decidedly uncommon.
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