The Beautiful Book

by Jack Smith

$40,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

New York : Dead Language Press , 1962 . First edition. Signed by Jack Smith on verso of front wrap, inscribed to poet Kirby Congdon To Kirby with choked up strangled emotions...... Jack. 20 pp. Illustrated with 19 gelatin silver contact prints, comprising 18 photographs by Smith mounted on yellow pages, and one portrait of Smith by Ken Jacobs, mounted on the inner rear wrapper. Bound in publisher's

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