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Author: Patchen, Kenneth
Title: A Surprise for the Bagpipe Player
Place Published: No place
Publisher:Frank Bacher
Date Published: 1955
Description:

18 silk-screen broadsides, some slight variation in size, overall approximately 36x28.5 cm (14½x11½") loose in original folding stiff red paper portfolio, as issued. From a limitation of 200 copies (but probably fewer actually produced). First Edition.

Letterpress prospectus laid in. Silk screen printings of manuscript poems and drawings by Patchen, reproduced from his manuscripts and printed on handmade Japanese papers. Several have affixed to the reverse a small label reading: "From the original MS page by Kenneth Patchen. This and 199 other copies in silk screen reproduction were hand-run by Frank Bacher during the summer of 1955," a few are ink-stamped on the reverse with one or both of the following stamps: "Handwritings for the Wall by Kenneth Patchen," and/or "This paper hand-colored by Kenneth Patchen." The second portfolio produced by Patchen and Bacher. Very rare.

Fine.