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Lot 575

Sale 945 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-307
Nov 9, 2021 4:00AM CT
Lots 308-687
Nov 10, 2021 4:00AM CT
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[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. MARIANI, Paul. Timing Devices: Poems. Easthampton, MA: Pennyroyal Press, 1977.


Full sheets, 328 x 620 mm (328 x 156 mm., folded). FOLDED UNBOUND SHEETS. Illustrated with 5 wood-engraved plates by Barry Moser; plus a folding polyptych plate at back containing the same five engravings. 
 
FIRST EDITION of Mariani’s first book of poetry. LIMITED EDITION, one of 175 copies SIGNED BY MOSER AND MARIANI. Accompanied by another set of gathered unbound sheets, without the additional folding plate, unsigned.
 
Pennyroyal Checklist 18 (“This book marks the beginning of a long relationship with a man I consider one of the brightest poets working in America today.”). 
 
[With:] 
 
[MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. MARIANI, Paul. Epitaphs for the Journey: New, Selected, and Revised Poems. North Hatfield, MA: Pennyroyal Press, [2012].
 
8vo. Frontispiece and dust jacket illustrated with wood engravings by Moser. Original cloth; dust jacket. LIMITED EDITION, number 10 of 10 copies reserved for the author and illustrator, of an edition of 50 copies SIGNED BY MARIANI AND MOSER, with an additional impression of the folded triptych from the wood engravings, signed by Moser in pencil. 


Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser

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