THE WATER POURER by Coover, Robert - 1972

Bruccoli Clark. Used - Like New. 1972. 1st. hardcover. Limited to an edition of 350 signed and numbered copies. Fine.

Bloomfield Hills, Michigan: Bruccoli-Clark, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Slim tall octavo. Fine in a heavily but evenly (save for the flaps) toned glassine dust jacket with a short crease on the lower panel. One of 350 copies Signed by Coover. In the original (unaddressed) folded cardboard mailer.

Columbia, SC: Bruccoli-Clark, 1972. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. First this, 1972. Quarter cloth with decorative boards. 8vo, 22pp. Near fine in glassine wrapper. Of an edition of 350 copies, this is number 72, and is inscribed by Coover to the publisher, Matthew Bruccoli.  From Bruccoli's collection. Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1931-2008) was the foremost F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar and bibliographer of his time. Additionally, he wrote on, and edited critical editions of Hemingway, Hammett, Cozzens, Thomas Wolfe, John O'Hara, and Vladimir Nabokov. He studied bibliography under the tutelage of Fredson Bowers and worked with Jacob Blanck on the Bibliography of American Literature. He was responsible for the republication and rediscovery of dozens of forgotten American novels, and went on to be the editor and publisher of the 400+ volume Dictionary of Literary Biography, and was the chief editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press bibliography series. Scarce hardcover.

Bruccoli-Clark, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 22 pages. One of 350 signed copies, 300 of which were for sale. Unpublished chapter from the author's first book. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a glassine jacket with short snags and tears at the edges. Signed by the author on the limitation page. This is one 50 copies not for sale; numbered '340 n.f.s.' on the limitation page.

Bloomfield Hills, MI/Columbia, SC, Bruccoli-Clark, 1972., 1972. First edition. Tall, thin 8vo. Original gilt stamped black cloth over gray/green patterned boards. Glassine dust jacket (some wear). Very good. Number 144 of 350 numbered copies, signed and numbered by Coover on limitation page. With a presentation inscription from Matthew J. Bruccoli (one of the publishers) on front free endpaper: "To Jeanne - with something like love - Matt." Designed by Bert Clark and printed at The Press of A. Colish, Mount Vernon, NY.. Signed by Author(s). F. Hardcover.