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Lot 171
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$200 -
300
Price Realized
$688
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Lot Description
MERTON, Thomas (1915-1968). Original Child Bomb. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1991.
Square 8vo. Illustrated. Original publisher’s black cloth, printed labels on covers (rear cover label with small scuff with loss to corners, small scuff at foot of front board).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 500 unnumbered copies SIGNED BY MERTON. Merton’s “anti-poem”, written in terse, compact language, centers around the events leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima.
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