Pokerface
[Los Angeles]: Kenmore Press, [1977]. First edition. [4], 23, [1] pp. Side-sewn Japanese stab binding, pictorial wrappers. One of 400 numbered copies. Very mild toning to extremities, near fine. Designed and printed by Steven Chayt at the Kenmore Press.
Billy Collins’ scarce first book. Collins said of this book: “Pokerface was a livre de luxe put together by a husband and wife who ran a hand letterpress out of their home in Los Angeles. I remember dropping in on them one morning to find the two of them busy at their labor of love. The husband was cranking out individual pages of my little book on an enormous, Dickensian-looking press while his wife sat on the floor, hippie-style, hand-stitching the covers on with a needle and thick black thread.” Collins was U.S. Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2003. Item #2602
Price: $1,500.00