On the Slain Collegians [Limited Edition, Signed by Frasconi]

Herman Melville; Antonio Frasconi [ed.]

Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1971

Beschreibung

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1971]. First Thus, Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 493. Slim quarto; publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($5.95); [48]pp.; illus. throughout. Brief faint soil to upper jacket panel, margins and cloth a bit yellowed, light shelf wear, vertical crease along front flap, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Signed by the illustrator on colophon in rear. Attractive and strikingly-illustrated limited edition of this collection of poems published to mark the hundredth anniversary of their composition as well as to draw comparison to the ongoing war in Vietnam: "The poems and parts of poems Antonio Frasconi presents here, along with his woodcuts interpreting them, deal specifically with themes that preoccupy most Americans: war's bitterness, the wasted deaths of young men" (rear jacket flap). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 27261

Bibliografische Details

Titel: On the Slain Collegians [Limited Edition, ...

Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1971

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: 1. Auflage