THE VERMONT NOTEBOOK - DELUXE ISSUE, SIGNED WITH AN ORIGINAL INK ILLUSTRATION

by John Ashbery, Joe Brainard, text, illustrations

$3,250 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Deluxe issue of Ashbery's 1975 experimental book-length poem, often overlooked in favor of his critically-acclaimed Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror published the same year. In fact, The Vermont Notebook has often been elided entirely from the Ashbery canon: excluded from Ashbery's bibliography in some subsequent volumes, the poem failed to make an appearance in the

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