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The Phoenix Book Shop : a nest of memories / by John Ashberry ... [and others] ; edited by Bob Wilson, Kenneth Doubrava, John LeBow.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Z473.P477 P56 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Phoenix Book Shop.
- Bookstores--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Bookstores.
- Wilson, Robert A. (Robert Alfred), 1922-2016.
- Wilson, Robert A.
- Booksellers and bookselling--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- History.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Wilson, Bob (autograph)
- Di Prima, Diane (autograph)
- Baraka, Amiri (autograph)
- McClure, Michael (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 42 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Candia, N.H. : John LeBow, 1997.
- Contents:
- Introduction / by John LeBow
- Tributes to Bob & the Phoenix / James Broughton ... [et al.]
- Phoenix rising / Bob Wilson
- The Phoenix is a black bird / Amiri Baraka
- From photography to Stein / Marshall Clements
- Phoenix memories / Diane Di Prima
- For Robert Wilson / Ed Sanders
- The Phoenix Bookshop : a nest of memories / Michael McClure.
- Notes:
- "Published and designed by John LeBow. Printed by Mark Olson of the Inner Klang Press in an edition of two hundred and sixty-five copies. Sixty-five copies are signed by most of the contributors, numbered I-LXV, and are laid in a clamshell box with authentic photographed checks, chapbooks and vintage photos from the Phoenix, provided by Bob Wilson. Fifteen of these are intended for friends of the press and are not for sale. Two hundred copies are signed by Bob Wilson, Amiri Baraka, Diane Di Prima, and Michael McClure, numbered 1-200"--Colophon.
- "Publications of the Phoenix Bookshop:" pages 19-21.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- RBC has copy 193.
- Contains:
- Phoenix photographs.
- OCLC:
- 38133759
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