Chicken Feet, Duck Limbs and Dada Handshakes
by Williams, Emmett
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0920974104
- ISBN 13
- 9780920974100
- Seller
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Vancouver: Western Front, 1984. No wear to covers, but some discoloration of predominantly white areas due to age. Spine straight and uncreased. Interior tight and unmarked. This is a very rare work by the concrete poet, originally American, but who spend much of his life in Germany, and who was awarded the Hannah-Höch-Preis in 1996. The cover (white) has a cartoon character with a vocal blurb which says "My name is Emmett Williams. I came to Vancouver from Berlin to make a book for Western Front, and here it is ..." Limited edition of 500 copies. Unpaginated.. First. Pictorial Card. Near Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Limited Edition.
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- Bookseller
- First Used Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005300
- Title
- Chicken Feet, Duck Limbs and Dada Handshakes
- Author
- Williams, Emmett
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0920974104
- ISBN 13
- 9780920974100
- Publisher
- Western Front
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver
- Date Published
- 1984
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Poetry Concrete
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....