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Author: Di Prima, Diane
Title: This Kind of Bird Flies Backward
Place: [New York]
Publisher: Paper Book Gallery Edition
Date: 1963
Item # : 168986
Sale Number   327
Lot Number   101
Sale Name    
The Edwin Blair Collection of Beat Literature, plus Modern Literature
Sale Date   03/09/2006
Price realized   $ 149
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Description:
43 pp. Introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. 7x4½, original saddle stitched white wrappers, printed in black. Second Edition, first printing.
Signed by Di Prima on the top of the introduction page. Author's first published book, originally published in 1958. a short "non-introduction" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Cover art by Fred Herko.
Condition:
Faint stains and soiling to covers, contents fine; still near fine overall. Scarce.
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