NORTHERN LIGHTS

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(Winston-Salem), Palaemon Press, 1983, marbled-paper covered cloth folder

one of 5 out-of-series copies, Near fine

 

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Limited to 75 sets, of which this is one of 5 out-of-series copies (See De Bellis & Broomfield, John Updike: A Bibliography of Primary & Secondary Materials, 1948-2007, A98a[2], where they note Apparently overrun copies not released by the publisher until the later year. / Publication price: $1000.00.). A few broadsides are lightly creased, else fine.

The colophon states: This first edition is limited to seventy-five sets: fifty-five numbered sets are for public sale, and twenty lettered sets are for the use of the poets and publisher. 

The contributors include: Philip Booth, Beyond Equinox; John Ciardi, Audit at Key West; Donald Davie, Church of Ireland; Anthony Hecht, Humoresque; James Merrill, Sentimental Colloquy; Howard Moss, To The Islands; W. S. Merwin, Berryman; Howard Nemerov, The Air Force Museum at Dayton; Karl Shapiro, The Sawdust Logs; Louis Simpson, The Unwritten Poem; W. D. Snodgrass, Mutability; Radcliffe Squires, The Envoy; William Stafford, The Arrival; Mark Strand, Always; and John Updike, Two Sonnets Whose Titles Came to Me Simultaneously. 

 

(Winston-Salem): Palaemon Press, 1983; large 4to., marbled-paper covered cloth folder; A set of fifteen loose broadsides, with each broadside containing a poem that has been signed by the respective poet. Book # 143333

 

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