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Author: Patchen, Kenneth
Title: Twenty miscellaneous silk-screen prints by Kenneth Patchen from his "Glory Never Guesses" and "A Surprise for the Bagpipe Player" portfolios
Place Published: No place
Publisher:Frank Bacher
Date Published: 1955
Description:

20 silk-screen broadsides, some slight variation in size, overall approximately 36x28.5 cm (14½x11½"). All from edition limitations of 200 copies (but probably fewer actually produced). First Edition.

Silk screen printings of manuscript poems and drawings by Patchen, reproduced from his manuscripts and printed on handmade Japanese papers. A nice selection from the two portfolios produced by Patchen and Bacher in 1955. Very rare.

Includes:

From "Glory Never Guesses"

• 
  Since in the Patient Eye


• 
  From the Teakettle Suggestion


• 
  Counsel for the Offense


• 
  The Monument Maker


• 
  To Run the Crown


• 
  Garrity the Gambling Man..Grown Old

From "A Surprise for the Bagpipe Player"

• 
  Listen is a Purple Elephant


• 
  What Indeed!


• 
  The Little Bug Angel


• 
  The Clock-Bear


• 
  With One Tiny Stick


• 
  The Question Is


• 
  Quick Thinker


• 
  The Man with the Gardenias


• 
  In Back of Every Thoughtful Chicken


• 
  The Giraffe of Sofas.


• 
  Sleeper Under the Trees


• 
  Binding the Quiet


• 
  The Broom of Bells


• 
  The Great Fleet

Together 20 different prints.

Fine.