October Frost
[Port Townsend, WA]: Copper Canyon Press, 1982. First edition. Paperback. SIGNED and warmly inscribed ("To ______ — | S M O O O O C H | Sam") in black ink on the front flyleaf. The inscription is to a noted Pacific Northwest poet and collector. [8]pp. Small octavo [19cm]; string-sewn in the original burnt orange colored letterpress printed wrappers. Bit of sunning at the spine and top edge, and a few tiny spots/stains on the front cover, else nearly fine. Near Fine. Item #70907
A handsome single-poem letterpress chapbook. The colophon states: "October Frost is printed from hand set Bembo type on Gutenberg Laid paper & hand sewn in wrappers in late October 1982. American poet and translator Sam Hamill (1943–2018) was also co-founder of the influential Copper Canyon Press. Over his five-decade career, he published poetry collections, taught in prisons, and founded Poets Against the War, a movement to protest the 2003 Iraq invasion. Copper Canyon Press is a nonprofit, independent poetry publisher that "believes poetry is vital to language and living." The press was founded by Sam Hamill, Tree Swenson, and other associates in 1972 in Denver, CO, and moved to Port Townsend, WA in 1974.
Price: $50.00