"A" 1-12
Ashland, MA: Origin Press, 1959. One of 200 copies printed in Japan. Red cloth with titling stamped in gilt to top board and spine. 296pp, errata slip tipped in. Small-run edition collecting the first twelve parts (of 24 total) of the Objectivist poet Louis Zukofsky's (1904-1973) magnum opus, the epic poem "A", with an afterword by William Carlos Williams. This copy, one of 200 printed in Kyoto, Japan, is inscribed by Zukofsky to Hugh Seidman (1940-2023), a major poet in his own right who was "most noticeably Zukofsky's progeny", according to Burt Kimmelman. Seidman encountered the older poet in his teens studying under him at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, and the two formed a close bond that lasted the rest of Zukofsky's life.
Inscription to front free endpaper in ink reads "Hugh Seidman / Always / Louis Zukofsky / 2/9/60". Additionally, Zukofsky adds two lines to the errata slip at the end in his own hand, and a handful of pages bear Seidman's neat, inobtrusive notes at the top margins showing his own formative and close reading of his main teacher. Seidman's ownership stamp to front pastedown. Very good condition. Sharp corners, heel of spine lightly bumped, boards and text block faintly soiled, contents clean. Item #3946
Price: $500.00