I Ain't Been Nowhere, I Ain't Been Lost, I Been Here All Along: Blues Memories, A Performance for Spoken Voices, Vintage Recordings and Projected Photgraphs/ A Question May Be the Answer To Another... - Softcover

A QUESTION MAY BE THE ANSWER TO ANOTHER, ASKED, PERHAPS LONG AGO, BY SOMEONE ELSE. / I AIN'T BEEN NOWHERE, I AIN'T BEEN LOST. I BEEN HERE ALL ALONG

Zustand: Near fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First printing. Signed limited first edition of these three performance pieces, illustrated by Ben and Jonathan Shahn, with a note from Sackheim's father, advertising executive and bookseller Ben Sackheim, to fellow bookseller and publisher George Bixby. The two dramatic sequences in A QUESTION ("Unworthy to Pray, Unworthy to Weep-I Shall Whistle" and "And Then There Were No Bees Left in Volhynia") are assembled from texts by or "based on stories by" Sholom Aleichem, Isaac Babel, Martin Buber, and several others, while the spoken parts of I AIN'T BEEN NOWHERE are "adapted" and "appropriated" from real interviews with Son House, Lightning Hopkins, Willie McTell, and others. 10'' x 7''. Original grey-blue wrappers. Grey-blue and brown endpapers. In original beige pictorial dust jacket with small sticker price ($10). Edition of 600 paperback copies, numbered 201 to 800; this copy no. 231. Illustrations by Ben and Jonathan Shahn. 89, [1] and 92, [2] pages. Signed by Sackheim on half-title page. Note on printed stationery of Ben Sackheim laid in: "To George [Bixby] - Eric's pastiches (bound ass-to-ass) - with our best wishes that the new year brings you a double measure of prosperity & pleasure." Minor shelfwear. Signed. Artikel-Nr. 54207

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