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First edition. Soft cover booklet, 16mo, in gray paper wraps over laid paper, the title and author names printed to the front of the wrap, and the spine plain. Two sets of three sewn gatherings seen at spine edge. Many pages unopened. In the original glassine protector. Limited edition 300 copies, according to catalogue. COLLATION:[6pp., unnumbered],1-60, [1]pp. Artist's signature is to the Title page. "These pieces were written in Gloucester, New York, Santa Fe, and Berlin, during 1917-1922"--Page [5]. This was the first edition in book form of these pieces which had prior appearance in various periodicals. Poem titles include:"World--Passport Visa," "The Crucifiction of Noel," "Ossining," The Fork of Annie," "Above the Level," "Gloucester," "Spurious Coin," "Baltazar Fernande," "Portuguese Pool-Room," "Are You There, Rose Trumbull?" "Gulls at Gloucester," "Cobwebs and Ratholes," "The Jockey in the Cathedral at Cologne," The Inquisition," "Boston Portrait Projects," "First" "Second," "Third," "Fourth," "Fifth," "Sixth" 1920-1922. [Without title], "Diabolo" "Ten Cent Towers," "Yours with Devotion," and "Parade." Colophon: Printed at Dijon by Maurice Darantiere, 1923. In English. **CONDITION: Fine, in a Very Good original glassine sleeve with a moderate chip to bottom edge merging into a 2" vertical closed tear which has, nonetheless, kept the booklet contents quite well-protected.**Contact Publishing Company, the French imprint of Dijon-based MAURICE DARANTIER (1882- 1962) was perhaps most famous as the Dijon art printer and publisher responsible for the production of the first edition of James Joyce's " Ulysses " in 1922 for Sylvia Beech, (the year before this publication.) **One of the Stieglitz Circle of American Modernist painters, MARSDEN HARTLEY(1877-1943), originally from Lewiston, Maine, continued to be associated with that State until his death. He is widely acknowledged by art historians as a very significant figure in the American decoding of evolving European art movements of the early twentieth century; pushing the boundaries of abstraction, rewiring cubism with color for instance, experimenting with German Expressionism. In the process, he became one of the foremost artists of the time. His experimentation took him to some of the foreign locales cited here in these poems. REFS: FRBNF 32224532. OCLC 701073. Scarce.
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