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The Vermont Notebook.
by ASHBERY, John; BRAINARD, Joe (illus.)
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press,, 1975. Signed by the author and the artist First edition, signed limited issue, number 23 of 250 hardcover copies signed and numbered by Ashbery and Brainard, who in this work exemplify "the possible interplay between verbal and visual art... Brainard finds perfect complementary images to reveal further delicate facts and observations throughout" (Diggory). Joe Brainard's "drawing style was virtuosic, equal to all moods and genres, from the important 'suites' of high-contrast black ink drawings, like those in his collaboration with John Ashbery, The Vermont Notebook" (Kernan, p. 54). There were also issued an additional 26 signed and lettered copies with an original ink drawing by the artist. The trade edition was published in wrappers. Octavo. Original green quarter cloth, white paper boards, paper spine label, front cover lettered in brown and red with a black illustration by Joe Brainard, red endpapers. Title page printed in green and red. With 47 full-page monochrome illustrations by Joe Brainard, and a half-tone from a photograph of the authors. Binding square and firm, spine lightly sunned, foxing at head of front cover and edges, contents clean and crisp. A very good copy indeed. Terence Diggory, Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets, 2015; Nathan Kernan, "Joe Brainard: The Madonna of the Future", Joe Brainard's Art, 2019.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154887
- Title
- The Vermont Notebook.
- Author
- ASHBERY, John; BRAINARD, Joe (illus.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press,
- Date Published
- 1975
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Peter Harrington
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About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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