This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...it be question of a laughing Saskia or an old woman cleaning her nails. 3 Think of some lady better than Rackham draws them: mere fairy stuff--some face that would be your face, were you of the right sex, some twenty years back of a still morning, some Lucretia out of the Vatican turned Carmelite, some ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...it be question of a laughing Saskia or an old woman cleaning her nails. 3 Think of some lady better than Rackham draws them: mere fairy stuff--some face that would be your face, were you of the right sex, some twenty years back of a still morning, some Lucretia out of the Vatican turned Carmelite, some double image cast over a Titian Venus by two eyes quicker than Titian's hands were, some strange daughter of an inn-keeper, --some... Call it a net to catch love's twin doves and I'll say to you: Look! and there'll be the sky there and you'll say the sky's blue. Whisk the thing away now? What's the sky now? By virtue of works of art the beauty of woman is released to flow whither it will up and down the years. The imagination transcends the thing itself. Kaffirs admire what they term beauty in their women but which is in official parlance a deformity. A Kaffir poet to be a good poet would praise that which is to him praiseworthy and we should be scandalized. VII. It is still warm enough to slip from the weeds into the lake's edge, your clothes blushing in the grass and three small boys grinning behind the derelict hearth's side. But summer is up among the huckleberries near the path's end and snakes' eggs lie curling in the sun on the lonely summit. But--well--let's wish it were higher after all these years staring at it deplore the paunched clouds glimpse the sky's thin counter-crest and plunge into the gulch. Sticky cobwebs tell of feverish midnights. Crack a rock (what's a thousand years!) and send it crashing among the oaks! Wind a pine tree in a grey-worm's net and play it for a trout; oh--but it's the moon does that! No, summer has gone down the other side of the mountain. Carry home what we can. What have you brought off? Ah here are..
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Good. Size: 24mo 5"-6" tall; A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Printed red and white softpaper wraps. Stated Sixth Printing of a popular contribution to the Pocket Poets Series published by City Lights. 83 pp. A fine contribution by the then Poet Laureate of America. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Numbered 139 from an edition of 300 copies. Signed on the colophon by the artist. Decorated wood veneer over black cloth with black morocco back, 26 cm, 62 pages, with 21 black & white woodcut illustrations by Mel Kendrick. Very good condition aside from a few faint stray scratches across front cover.
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Good. Second Printing. Previous bookstores sticker on title page. Age-toning and wear along spine and to front and back covers. Front cover is loose along the seams. Noticeable staining to front and backcover. Some foxing along the top text edge. Used with wear but is still in solid reading condition. NO markings to text. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore since 1992.