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London: Fulcrum Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1969. Limited/Numbered Signed Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Three short stories in Jeff Nuttall's 'cut up' style, written as if he had three piles of jagged, unrelated sentences that were put together with a sense of order. Reading like free verse compressed into prose, sometimes described as 'prose music,' assembling these piles resulted in the stories The Rain, The Train, and The Coast. Example: "George Gland, ritually, in deference to his being in the light, his weight against the water, his mounting inner density of indigestion and bladderpressure, soaped the minnow and smiled thin silibant against the doorstep -- water afternoon and tidal wattage." Copy 52 of a limited edition of 75. Numbered "52/75" and signed by the author, both on the limitation page. Preface by William S. Burroughs who appreciated Nuttall's avant-garde approach to poetry. An artistic polymath, Jeffrey Addison… Read More

Westwood, NJ: Kindle Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1971. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Common to this edition, the spine is quite sunned compared to the dark green half cloth, but gilt lettering remains bright. A pinpoint speck to the front cover's paper. The slipcase has minor wear to corners, the tail is bumped.; Sir Walter Scott's arguably best short story of the rough life of two cattle drivers in Scotland, privately printed in celebration of his bicentennial birthday. Copy 242 of an edition of 680 and signed on the colophon by Coleman O. Parsons who wrote an extensive Foreword for this edition. Frontispiece is a fanciful lion with spread claws, printed in red. The front pastedown bears a portrait of Scott, but I'm partial to the frontis, instead. Text block trimmed at the head edge. Printed by Meriden Gravure on Hale Paper's mould-made rag paper designed by F. T. Jackson and bearing a facsimile of Sir Walter Scott's signature of 1827. Bound by A.… Read More