A SONG AND A DIARY FOR A.

by Richard Elliott, Edward Gorey

$1,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition · Signed

New York : Adventures in Poetry , 1973 . Lettered copy of the doubly signed limited first edition of Elliott's debut, with a cover illustration of a burning cruciform box by Edward Gorey. Near fine. Item #50766 Gorey and Elliott, a writer described by Fagin as completely off the radar screen when these prose pieces were published, shared a connection in John Ashbery: Elliott's unhappy former co-worker at the Brooklyn

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