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MOVING by Mayer, Bernadette; Rosemayer Mayer (ill.); Ed Bowes (cover) - 1971

by Mayer, Bernadette; Rosemayer Mayer (ill.); Ed Bowes (cover)

MOVING by Mayer, Bernadette; Rosemayer Mayer (ill.); Ed Bowes (cover) - 1971

MOVING

by Mayer, Bernadette; Rosemayer Mayer (ill.); Ed Bowes (cover)

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Paperback
  • first
New York: Angel Hair Books, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Rosemary Mayer. 11 inches tall. [40] pp. including two full-page illustrations. Pictorial card wrappers, saddle-stapled. Light wear to wrappers, else near fine.

1 of 674 unlettered copies (of 700 total), printed for Angel Hair Books by Chapel Press in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Mayer's second book as sole author, composed over the course of three living in the woods of the Northeast, as she set herself "the task of not writing at all unless I was absolutely compelled to write" (Mayer, from a 1986 letter to Nada Gordon). With photographic cover design by Ed Bowes and two drawings by Rosemary Mayer. Clay and Phillips, p. 179.
  • Bookseller W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera US (US)
  • Illustrator Rosemary Mayer
  • Format/Binding Softcover
  • Book Condition Used - Near fine
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Paperback
  • Publisher Angel Hair Books
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1971
  • Keywords American literature, poetry, experiemental poetry, mimeo revolution, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Language movement, New York School, New York City, Lower East Side, East Village, illustrated, chapbook