Dear John, dear Coltrane

by Michael Harper

$450 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1970 . First edition, 8vo, pp. 10 , 88, 4 ; contemporary quarter blue niger over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Signed simply Harper on the half-title, and with 8 tick marks next to 8 poems in the table of contents, and corresponding numbers 1 through 8 in the page corners of the selected poems. This is Harper's first book, and placed in a special binding either by him or for him by the publisher. Harper

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