Tatlin!
Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1974. 8vo, dark grey cloth, silver titles, 261pp. First edition, with number line beginning in 1. Signed by Davenport to the half title page. Unclipped dust jacket (7.95) moderately toned to panels. Ownership signature to front endpaper, light bump to corners, slight buckling to pages from stuffing of paper clippings. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The first collection of short fiction by the Kentucky writer, critic and polymath; imaginative sketches of historical personalities such as Tatlin, the Soviet engineer and sculptor, Kafka, utopian Charles Fourier, Herakleitos, et al. Cited by Harold Bloom in his books of the Western Canon. Dedication to the memory of Kentucky photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard. A very good copy in mylar. Scarce signed.
Price: $150.00