[Rarebooks] FS: Perishable Press W. D. Snodgrass with letter from the printer

[Charles Agvent]

               GARDONS,  S.  S.  (SNODGRASS, W. D.). REMAINS  :  POEMS.
          Mount Horeb,  WI:  The  Perishable Press Summer  1970.  First
          Edition.  Copy  #175  of  200 printed on  Shadwell  paper  by
          Walter  and Mary Hamady and bound in gray-blue morocco-backed
          marbled  boards  by Douglas Cockerell. The fictitious  author
          Gardons,  an  anagram  of Snodgrass, is described  as  having
          disappeared  under  mysterious  circumstances. Laid  in  is a
          TYPED LETTER  SIGNED, as "Walter and Mary," from the  printer
          on the  press letterhead. Hamady adds a holograph note  about
          the letterhead  not  being  pritned  by  them.  Fine,  earthy
          content  about books and gardening. Fine without dustwrapper,
          as issued.                                            $250.00


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