Turandot

by John Ashbery

$3,800 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953. First edition. Signed by John Ashbery, inscribed to previous owner. Publisher's pink and brown decorated wrappers. Very Good with toning to wraps, light chipping and cracking at fragile yapped edges, short split started at top of spine. A nice copy of the fragile production; one of 300 copies, and the poet's first book. Item #180222003

• Binding: Wrappers

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