Samuel loveman preface (1 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. A nice presenation copy signed by Frank Belknap Long and inscribed to small press publisher Gerry de la Ree on the front free endpaper, "For Gerry, With the cordial regards of Frank Belknap Long." Bound in publisher's blue cloth, front and rear panels ruled in blind, printed paper label affixed to front panel; Limited to 350 copies. Very Good with mottling, toning and soiling to covers, wear to title label. Rubbing to ends and corners. Light toning and trivial foxing to contents. A defective copy that is missing the three preliminary leaves as well as one leaf of text (pages 23-24). Long did not notice the missing text leaf, but he copied the preliminary leaves by hand and pasted them into this copy. On a preliminary presentation leaf he has written: "I have copied by hand three missing / pages of the present volume -- the first / and only edition of the now exceedingly / rare A MAN FROM GENOA. None of these /pages were numbered, and there were / some blank pages -- hence the first poem, / A Knight of La Mancha, appears on page 7. / The text is now complete. / Frank Belknap Long / New York ----- August, 1970." A fantastic association copy of Long's first book and the first book printed by The Recluse Press. Signed.…