INSEL

by Mina Loy, Roger Conover, Elizabeth Arnold

$350 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1991. First printing. First edition review copy of the poet's only novel, an intermittently autobiographical narrative examination of the cosmically irritating Insel, a parasitical painter based loosely on the German surrealist Richard Oelze. Fine. Item #51056 Denied publication in the author's lifetime by an uncharacteristically short-sighted publisher

• Printing: first

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