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Author: Snyder, Gary
Title: Strategic Air Command, for Kai
Place: [N. San Juan Ridge]
Publisher: [Kitkitdizze]
Date: 2001
Item # : 185416
Sale Number   364
Lot Number   412
Sale Name    
Fine Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the David Oakey Collection of Gary Snyder
Sale Date   09/27/2007
Price realized   $ 345
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Description:
12x10, manuscript broadside, unique. Hand-Calligraphed poem on grey hand-made BFK Rives paper, red line under title is water proof calligraphy ink drawn with quill pen carved by author from vulture flight feather. The orange seal at end, Han, is medium-age Chinese characters saying Chofu–“listen to the wind,” the author’s Zen name.
Completely hand-inked by Snyder; and, signed by Snyder “for David Oakey” (at bottom). Originally written in 1982 at Koip Peak, Sierra Nevada; however, this personalized copy was made for Oakey in March 2001.
Condition:
Fine.
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