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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) MORRISON, TONI.
The Bluest Eye.
164
pages. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards; in a worn but whole dust jacket with a small
piece of cello-tape at the foot of the spine;
INSCRIBED BY MORRISON TO RUBY AND OSSIE
DAVIS
.
New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1970
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST EDITION OF A MODERN RARITY
.
Morrison’s first novel had a very small printing. As a
result, acceptable copies are quite rare.
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(LITERATURE AND POETRY.) PUSHKIN, ALEXANDRE.
Gavriliada.
24
pages, printed on pink paper. 16mo, original printed green wrappers with gray printed
label on the front cover; all of this bound in black morocco backed marbled paper-covered
boards; spine with six gilt rules, the title in Russian in one panel.
Petrograd: Svoboda, 1918
[1,000/1,500]
THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF ALEXANDER PUSHKIN
’
S EXTREME AND QUASI PORNOGRAPHIC
SEND UP ON HOW THE VIRGIN MARY GOT PREGNANT
.
OCLC locates only three copies of this
printing: Leeds, N.Y. University and Indiana (Bloomington). Not published in Russia before the
Revolution for obvious reasons. However, in 1917 Lenin invited Pushkin back, greatly enjoying the
writer’s irreverence. Pushkin was one quarter black; his grandfather was Logon from Cameroon.