Between the Covers

Hardcover. Second edition and first edition thus, adding a new poem and a photograph of the author, the first edition was published by New Directions in 1939. Slight offsetting to a terminal blank, else fine in nice, near fine dustwrapper with a little age-toning. Nicely Inscribed by the author to his close friend, the artist Arthur Sturcke, with a poem and utilizing most of the front fly. Sturcke was a painter and pacifist who exhibited in the 1930s and 1940s, and who did much to help and support Patchen. Patchen mentions him in his book *Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer* in a dialogue discussing art and artists: "And what about DeNiro? There is a serious young painter. All right what about Kamrowski? – Or Lee Bell? Or Jackson Pollock? – Or Arthur Sturcke?" A very attractive copy.

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