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Slight splay to boards. Surfaces of the clear acetate wrappers are scuffed.; Twelve poems by Joyce Carol Oates, some being reprinted from periodicals. all in a fine press edition: A Song on Coming Back from Nothing, Last Harvest, Ice Age, Season of Peril, Offspring, Skyscape, Earth-Rituals, Footprints, The Buried Self, Fever Dream on the Eve of Illness, Small Miracles, and Rising to Trees. The book was designed by Barbara Martin. Printed by Mackintosh & Young on cream-colored, watermarked, laid paper. Inscribed on the title page, by Oates: "For Renee and for Ted- / many thanks for your / warm hospitality- / Best wishes, / as always- / Joyce / 5/24/78". No mark of ownership, but this copy from the library and estate of poet and critic Theodore (Ted) Weiss (1916-2003), and wife Reneé Weiss (1924-2021), both serving as the primary editors of the acclaimed Quarterly Review of Literature Magazine (QRL) for sixty years. QRL presented work by both major and emerging authors: Pound, Miller, Van Doren, Merton, Sartre, Kafka, Montale, Cummings, et al. The colophon is signed in blue ink by Oates and numbered in red ink 198 (of 200). This is an hors commerce copy, copies 181 through 200 being from the reserved 21 copies not for sale. Morrow & Cooney 284. Bound in quarter red cloth and red/tan illustrated paper over boards, printed in black, dark blue, green, and white. The cover drawing is by Oates. In the publisher's clear acetate wrapper. 4to, 10 1/2" x 7 3/8". 24 pp. In clean and Near Fine condition in the publisher's clear, acetate jacket.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 24 pages; Signed by Author.
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