On the edge
Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, [1963]. Edition limited to 220 copies (this copy, no. 2), 8vo, pp. 62, [2]; fine in original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; fine throughout. From the library of the printer Kim Merker. Signed by Levine on the colophon (most copies were not signed). And, additionally inscribed by Levine to the printer, Kim Merker on the half-title: "For Kim Merker, The other man who made this book. With love & thanks. Like they say, honey, the first time is the time. Phil Levine." This is Levine's first published book. Later, he won the National Book Award twice, the Pulitzer Prize, and was the U.S. Poet Laureate 2011-12. Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 12. Item #61698
Price: $3,000.00
