The Gain of Aft
by Mullican, Lee
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Eureka, California, United States
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About This Item
Illuminati, 1947. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 9 leaves, including reproductions of three abstract drawings. In an oral history conducted by the Archives of American Art (Smithsonian Institution), Mullican describes being in the army with Jack Stauffacher, who even before the Second World War had set up the Greenwood Press behind his house in San Mateo, California. They cooked up the idea of a book and this is the result. Mullican describes the publication: 'I'd written this kind of obscure, and I don't think ... very good poem, but the drawings are very nice.' About the time this book was published, Mullican, with Gordon Onslow Ford and Wolfgang Paalen, formed the Dynaton group, a spinoff of the Surrealists that culminated in a celebrated show in San Francisco in 1951. A notable work in the American Surrealist canon, printed by a major California printer and typographer. This is one of 250 numbered copies printed at the Greenwood Press. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback) with a glassine outer [JSP01; JSP04].
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eureka Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 182784
- Title
- The Gain of Aft
- Author
- Mullican, Lee
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Illuminati
- Date Published
- 1947
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Eureka Books
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...